Aerial View of the Iguazu Falls

Because Argentina has banned helicopter flights in the Iguazu Falls National Park on its side, it is only feasible to fly over the Falls on the Brazilian side. Okay, the helicopter may disturb the wildlife (the reason that Argentine government bans it) and I felt a little bit guilty on participating in such activity. At the end, I still decided to spend that $65 for the 10-minute flight over the Iguaçu Falls. I really wanted to see the Falls from all the different angles and locations! It was the first helipcopter flight I had in 15 years (the last one was also in the Southern Hemisphere - in New Zealand). It is once in a lifetime experience, of course.

Now I have seen the Falls from the land, the water, and the air.

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We took this type of helicopter (this is not the same one I took) to fly over the Iguaçu Falls.

On our way flying to the Falls, it is very dense jungle down there.

Getting closer to the Falls. Don't you see some steams at right hand corner?

Group of waterfalls at the Argentine side, where I just visited a day before.

Closer aerial view of those Argentine waterfalls...

Devil's Throat. I could even see the viewing platform I stopped by the day before from the helicopter.

A different angle of the Devil's Throat...

Well...I guessed that was it! We were on our way back to the helicopter pad outside of the Park area. The (relatively large) city ahead of us is Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil. And behind Foz, the very nasty Ciudad del Este in the nasty country, Paraguay.