Iguazu Day 3-The Return

The third day we were pretty much done with the falls, so we decided to check out what the town hd to offer. Now, keep in mind this is a town where the major landmark is the stoplight. So next to uur hotel there was a bird sanctuary, which was actually really cool, then we also wanted to check out the hummingbird farm. But first we had to get there, and as you can see we spent a lot of time waiting. Here is Dad´s pose while he waits for the infamous bus. By now the Remis guys had stopped trying...

A Picaflor caught in action. That hummingbird farm? Um, yeah, a lady's backyard with a bunch of feeders hanging from her tree branches and some benches. She told us about the "sugar soup" (sopa de azucar) she cooks for them and how they go through 1 kilo of sugar a day.
At the bird sanctuary we also saw monkeys in the trees above us. Below us I almost stepped in monkey poo. This country is full of landmines!
This is a falcon or hawk (or eagle! thanks, Dad), excuse my lack of bird specifics, that was rescued and was being rehabilitated. Interesting fact: they don't drink any water.
Iguazu (Also spelled Iguasu and Iguacu) is full of butterflies. Here is one that landed on Ian's foot. He was a real butterfly magnet, actually.
Our last lunch! We had a big bottle of water, big bottle of coke, 8 empanadas, 2 plates of fries, 1 big sandwich and 2 tostadas (small sandwiches toasted on white bread) for $32 pesos. That's $10 U.S. Can you believe it?
Me and Ian in the forest.
An iguana that crossed our path on the tour.
Barn owls nesting in a tree trunk.
Toucan Sam. We learned that, as babies, you can fit about 4 of these these into a thermos. They go for about $6000 Euros apiece on the black market. That's how most of the ones in this place got there, they were found being smuggled out of the country. 2 thoermoses-worth bring more than my teacher's salary for the year in the U.S. This is a really crazy tree-it surrounds a tree and suffocates and kills it, then continues to grow but you can see in the gaps where the original tree was before it died.