#what to wear to iguazu falls in march

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Iguazu Falls Packing Guide: Must-Have Items for Your Adventure

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HI JUST FOUND YOUR ACC THIS IS ME ASKING FOR DETAILS ON YOUR BA VACATIO DURING THE FINAL OMG

BESTIE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE. THANK YOU FOR ASK ING IM ABOUT TO POP OFF

ALSO I WILL HAVE TO PUT THIS INTO TWO PARTS BECAUSE TUMBLR IS AN ASSHOLE

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sorry if this is too much rambling and has too many of my Own Personal Thoughts but writing this took me down memory lane and i am Emotional. also pardon any spelling/grammatical errors

let me put in a line break so i don't clog my approximately ten follower's feeds

so

a little unnecessary backstory that you can definitely skip: way back in march 2022, my family was all "hey we should go on a family trip in december because that's when we're all free, where should go" and my brother was like "argentina" (he has no football brain he just thought it would be an interesting place to go) and that was when a little seed was planted in my teeny brain. i knew that the wc had been rescheduled for december and i knew that argentina had been doing p well since the copa and would probably be favorites for the wc so i started skewing the plans to go towards argentina bc how dope would it be if we happened to be in argentina during the final? even if they didn't make it all the way, it would still be cool to be in a place where football means so much during the biggest game in the world. anyway, my scheming and manifesting paid off and we went to argentina! we flew out of (home country) on the day of the semi-final (i watched the arg vs croatia match while waiting to board) and then landed in buenos aires, was there for a day, then flew to iguazu falls for a couple of days.

we flew back to ba on the night of 12/17 and THAT'S WHEN THE PARTY STARTED

wait i think i can include some pics/vids i have to make this experience more immersive!

literally in the uber on the way to our airbnb, this was what greeted us at a stoplight at the obelisco:

also just a side note, just walking around ba the first day was crazy because my man dibu is just... there on adverts, flexing on bitches

and so many murals/adverts featuring mostly messi but also the rest of the tea,, and the JERSEYS my god. i don't have the dough to shell out for something authentic so i copped a ~very believable~ messi fake for like 3000 ARG pesos. i was so happy

ANYWAY the morning of 12/18 (i could hardly go to sleep i was nervous as fuck), i literally woke up to muchachos. like when i stood on the balcony of the Airbnb i could hear people just playing that song on BLAST. greatest alarm ever.

i had found out that the government (?) had set up screens all over the city so people could watch, so we decided to go to one that was set up in a park near paseo el rosedal, which ended up being ~1 hr walk from where we were staying. BUT it was SO WORTH IT because just walking through the streets was amazing. people were wearing jerseys, waving flags, cars were decorated and ugh. i was shitting bricks tho.

so we get to the park and im just gonna let my vids (fuck tumblr for only letting me upload one vid in a post) set the vibe:

(sorry some of them are super short; i make montages to remember vacations and short vids are ~aesthetic~)

HERE ARE THE VIDS FOR THE PENALTY AND REACTION TO LEO'S PENALTY. I HAVE NO WORDS AND WILL LET IT SPEAK FOR ITSELF. SORRY MY SCREAMING IS UGLY AS FUCK

i don't think i have the reaction to di maria's goal, i think i was just ~living in the moment~ but anon, lemme tell you, after going up 2-0, the vibes in that park were IMMACULATE. everyone was so freaking happy, and singing and ugh!! im getting emotional looking through the vids

more vibes (obvi lots of "muchachos" singing, but this song was one i hadn't known (disclaimer: i am very obviously not argentine. nor do i speak/understand spanish))

and obligatory muchachos:

and THEN MBAPPE DECIDED TO RUIN IT (okay, i actually don't really mind mbappe as a player but on this day he was my actual enemy. i hated his ass. it took me weeks to get over it). decides to tie up the game 2-2 as if he didn't win the world cup four years prior (selfish as fuck smh) and SHIT WAS SO FUCKING TENSE. my hands and legs were SHAKING. im literally getting nervous thinking about it.

and then leo. KING LEO. SCORED TO MAKE IT 3-2

i remember there was confusion for a bit because they were deciding if it was offsides or not and i was looking wildly around my family asking "did he get it?" because i was confused as to whether he actually got into the net (it was getting super hard to see with the glare of the sun and the dust and smoke and everything).

and then the goal stood. and i immediately burst into tears. i don't really know why (actually i do, it's because when it came down to it, leo put the team on his back and saved their asses AGAIN. he saw lautaro send it directly into lloris and said "fine, i'll do it myself" thanos-style and put the fucking ball directly into the back of the net. in the dark times, my hero came back and saved us. it was too much for me)

also literally imagine being varane and your ass being too fat be the reason your country gives up a goal in the wc final. couldn't be me.

obvi i don't have the immediate reaction to leo's goal because i was too busy screaming crying throwing up, but here's some aftermath (which is also emotional with the whole never-really-being-respected-on-the-international-level-and-his-kids-asking-him-why-do-they-kill-him-in-the-streets and now they're literally bowing down to him)

just more vibes:

i don't have any reaction to mbappe's penalty to make it 3-3, probably because i had shit my pants or something. also by the end of extra time i think i was full on having a breakdown. i don't even remember seeing dibu's save against kolo mani; i only heard about it and saw videos afterwards (honestly a good thing because i probably would've blacked out if i saw/registered it in the moment)

OKAY so then the game goes to penalties. i think i had started to feel a bit more confident at that point because i knew Our Lord And Savior Dibu Martinez would be the one to bring it home.

unfortunately i don't have any videos of when dibu saved any of the penalties/tchouameni missed because i could barely watch. i literally had my head in my hands and was trying to not to have a panic attack and was only relying on the noises around me to figure out whether a penalty was missed/scored. have you seen the clips of rodrigo de paul pacing the sideline, hoodie zipped up during the shootout? yeah that was basically me. but i think you can imagine how the crowd was whenever france missed/arg scored

i do have the best video tho. SOMOS TODOS MONTIEL

and here is just the aftermath that i managed to capture because i had, once again, promptly burst into tears. like many others, because Argentina had become Campeon del Mundo

(sorry not sorry if you don't care about the visual aspect lmao. i ain't ever deleting these vids and am obligated to rub them in people's faces)

OKAY BESTIE THIS IS WHERE I WILL HAVE TO END PART 1 BECAUSE TUMBLR IS PISSING ME THE FUCK OFF AND WON'T LET ME ADD MORE VIDEOS i will see u in part 2 if you're still interested :)

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Iguacu Falls

The waterfalls on the Iguazu river (different spelling depending on which country you`re in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguazu_Falls ) are some of the most breathtaking visual spectacles on earth. 

The falls themselves fall over 2 countries, Brazil on one side and Argentina on the other.

After arriving in the Brazillian city of Iguau on a night bus from Sao Paulo we check into the Hotel Cassino. 

It`s Sunday the 21st March, Sundays in Iguazu city are a quiet affair and most shops are shut in Iguazu, it proves hard to find somewhere for lunch.

After lunch the minibus that collected us from Iguazu bus station is on hand to bring us to the nature park that encompasses the Brazillian side of the falls. 

On the way to the falls some of the group stop off at a heli pad to go on a 10-minute helicopter ride over the falls for $100US per person. 

The facilities and trails at the Brazillian side are first-class and we finally get close to the world-famous falls.

Later that night we go to a Lebanese resaturant. I`m not hungry so settle for a beer tower, a 2 litre cyninder of beer that has a tap so that you can pour your own glass, at your table. We stay there till late and have a good laugh.

The following day we cross the border into Argentina to see the other side of the falls. Even though the majority of the falls are in (80% or so) Argentina facilities are much better on the Brazilian side. 

The thunder and pouring rain have been going on incessantly since early in the morning. We wake at 8am. 

At the park our bus driver buys tickets for the speedboat that will take us on the river and under the falls. 

We pay him for the tickets.

The price is 105Reals or $55US.

We trundle in the heavy rain in an elevated open-top truck on a forest track through to the point where we are to board the speedboat, 6km from the falls themselves. 

Wearing swiming trunks, sandals and a poncho I walk down the steep pathway to the river Iguazu. With all the rain the river has turned a deep brown colour.

We`re videoed as we walk the gang plank to board the boat, should we want to be reminded of the delightful experience. 

As I board the boat with my camera, towel, dry clothes in a bag  and my poncho sticking to my  sunburnt upper body the delights of Iguazu are the last thing on my mind. 

When the attendant on board gives me a life jacket and I strap it on the mixture of the sunburn and the lashing rain make me wonder what I`m doing at Iguazu.

We take off.

The unhappy expression on the oil-skin clad boat staff don`t rouse my spirits. The boat makes it`s way slowly to the falls. 

After a bit we see swells in the river and the captain revs up, moving fast to the left and fast to the right.

We`re advised take our last pictures before putting our cameras securely in the heavy duty bags we`ve been given. 

Next thing we know we`re under the falls, their power is immense. The spray and mist falling on us is warm and welcome given the rain. Meanwhile we`re still being videoed, but by this time our expressions have changed, with our being over-awed.

At the end of the boat tour we pull up a jetty and disembark. We walk up the guided path past numerous viewing points to the toilets where those who brought dry clothes are able to change.

After a few minutes we`re off again, this time on a miniature train journey of about 20 minutes to see the Garganta del Diablo or Devils Throat, another unmissable part of the falls.

Later that night when we get back from dinner a few of us go to someones room for a few drinks where we look at the video that all clubbed in to buy of us èxperiencing`Iguazu.