[April, 2007] Advance: “It was not an agreeable two days, rather two days of rain, and my wife and I were on two sides of the great falls, called Iguacu, one part in Argentina, the other in Brazil. We flew into the area from Lima, Peru.

“Like most of my trips, I had studied the falls, its height, its volume, its dimensions, and it proved to be the greatest falls in the world. Some three hundred feet high, over four hundred thousand liters of water per second, close to two miles circumference.

“And so here we were for three days and two nights, and from here we’d fly into Buenos Aires, for another three nights, which would be my second time in that city.

“But Iguaçu Falls, is really likened to the Great Wall of China, with its massive 240 plus falls linking it into a great circle, stretching and dazzling the length of the eye. The stone walls of the falls are also likened to the Great Wall of China, bold and powerful looking. And when you walk these walls, or rather, cliffs, you get the chilly breeze crossing over and under and around your body, slapping your face, legs and arms with its water, you cannot avoid it, fight it or hide from it, but it feels great.

“It is as if God himself, fell on his elbow and left a big dent in the earth, and thus, created the greatest falls the world has ever seen.

[The Hotel] “My hotel wasn’t much to talk about except the buffet in the morning and evening. What they lacked in room service, and accommodations, they made up for in food, free food, and quite the assortment. The bed was one foot from the floor, and the floor had spider webs all around the bed, under it, on the ceiling, and it was suppose to be a three star (we asked for another room and got it), I think it was perhaps, some fifty years ago, a three star. But my wife, Rosa wolfed down the assortment of meats, fruits and greens from the buffet, ensuring we got our money’s worth. Our hotel was in Iguaçu city, Brazil. There was only water in the refrigerator, but no heat for the cold room, nor was there a bar, nor was there a safe, nor was there anything beyond the basic necessities. One has to keep an eye on the Tourist Companies in South America, they will give you the slap, and pocket the rest of the money, and say, “Oh, I didn’t realize it, I’m sorry.” But you know what you can do with your ‘sorry’; they all think a sorry fulfills the requirements of bad service.

[From my notes/4-26-2007] “We did make it (to Iguacu) as you may well have figured out, and I even had time to write a second poem, seven hours after seeing ‘Devil’s Throat,’ (a horseshoe rounded falls, part of the falls) on the Argentina side of the falls; but with fewer problems than what we’ve been having. The poem is called ‘Gulping Waters of Devil’s Throat,’ It is 12:10 AM, I woke up after arguing with the man that picked us up after leaving, Buenos Aires, picking us up at the airport in Iguacu City, and drove us to the falls, unwillingly drove us, because we came in thirty minutes late. What a day, two planes, two taxies and a train to get here, to get to the falls. And now it is raining cats and dogs. There is a metal walkway that goes from one point to the edge of the falls, some ten blocks, the closer I got to the falls, the faster I walked, I really got excited. By the time we left the falls, and got to the hotel, I was soaked from head to toe. And in addition, the Hotel smells more like a zero star hotel; we told them to wake us up for our free breakfast.

[The Falls & Dam/4-27-2007] “The day was long again, our guide has to be the most laziest one I have yet to experience in all my world travels, and they have been 700,000-air miles up to this point; he just doesn’t want to do a thing, trying always to talk us out of doing what is on our agenda. Had we left it up to him, we would have remained in the hotel for the whole trip. The falls were great today, went to the Brazil side, under the falls, yesterday it was on top of the falls, in Argentina. It is the number one falls in the world, and makes Nigeria Falls, look like a baby compared to its parent, Iguacu.

“Rosa and I, went (and our lazy guide) also went to the Dam (Itaipu), which produces 22% of Brazil’s energy and 90%, of Paraguay’s: I had found out the dam was the most powerful in the world, between the two countries. And an engineering wonder of the modern world. The steel in the dam is equal to 80-Effil Towers.

“Anyhow we made it through the day, and I finished readying Sylvia Plath’s only novel, “The Bell Jar” on this trip.”

The Gulping waters of Devils Throat

[A Poem about Iguazu]

It gulped, gulped and gulped

Like the insides of a throat—

Clashing upon layers!

Constricting, dashing, sinking

Into the great spiral

Called: the DevilÂ’s ThroatÂ…!

The massive contents

Of four hundred thousand litters

Of water, per second, over the falls,

Emptied, and swallowed

At this very end—; gulping

And clashing, upon layers!

Written 12:15 AM; 4-26-2007

#1798 (Brazil)

See Dennis’ web site: http://dennissiluk.tripod.com

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