Upper trail
• Length: 650 meters.
• Accessibility: High
• Difficulty: No. No stairs.
• Estimated Time of Visit: One hour and 15 minutes.
• Health and bar: 50 meters of access to Circuit Falls Station.
It starts at fifty yards from the Falls Station Jungle Train, a distance that allows a panoramic view of the Horseshoe falls, starting with the Salto Dos Hermanas and ends on the lookout jump Mbiguá, through the Chico jumps Ramirez, Bosetti, Adam and Eve and Ranger Bernabe Mendez.
It is characterized by having a layout of runways arranged above the edge of the falls, allowing a vertical view and height of your breakers is truly electrifying. Has resting places that make the ride a source of energy and relax on contact with water.
Under the plan of works planned for 2015, the Superior Circuit will have an extension of 1000 meters that allow you to reach from the square to the edge of Salto Mbiguá up to a viewpoint overlooking the spectacular balcony Salto San Martín, to return after winding islet Superior Iguazú Delta.
Lower trail
• Length: 1700 meters.
• Accessibility: Media.
• Difficulty: access stairs to the Bosetti jump and lookout balcony Cannon Falls.
• Estimated Time of Visit: One hour and 45 minutes.
• Health and bar: in Plaza Dos Hermanas, right at the entrance to the Circuit.
Gateways venture into the lush jungle to take direct contact with the breaking of the Jumps Dos Hermanas, Chico and Ramirez, to finish this first section of the circuit with a walkway that brings us to the foot of massive seawall water is the fall of Salto Bosetti.
On leaving this jump is 20 meters access to the pier from which you cross by boat to Isla San Martin. Continuing along the path, let along the arm of the Iguazu River that separates us from the island, as we can see its beaches and cliffs. We end this second tranche of the Lower Circuit, arriving at the balcony viewpoint that stands in the meeting this branch of the river with Cannon Falls, the bottom of which is visible, imposing, the Garganta del Diablo with its typical haze. So far, all traffic areas have a 100% accessibility.
The third and final leg of the circuit, allowing us to return to Plaza Dos Hermanas, has stairs, and leads us skirting the lower Iguazu to delight with steep declines in jumps Alvar Núñez, Elenita and Lanusse.
Garganta del Diablo
• Length: 2200 meters (total return).
• Accessibility: High
• Difficulty: No. No stairs.
• Estimated Time of visit: 2 hours.
• Health and bar: 20 m from access to the walkway that leads to the final Mirador.
The tour enabled to reach the lookout balcony of the Garganta del Diablo majestic allows visitors to approach a few meters from the most important and mighty leap of the 275 that make up the system of Iguazu Falls, whose image has traveled the world, similar a giant funnel that swallows the planet.
The itinerary begins about 1,100 meters before the monumental fall, when descending the Rainforest Ecological Train Station in Garganta del Diablo, designed with the purpose of generating the least possible environmental impact.
There enjoyment environment offering the river and its small islands of forest, home to countless picturesque intense blue jays begins.
The walkway leading to the balcony that faces the jump is just over a kilometer in length, is suitable for safe and quiet, either walking or wheelchair transfer due to the absence of obstacles and its absolutely flat character.
The end of the tour, on the balcony, gives us a magical and unique moment, staring at a huge wall of water over 80 meters high, located on the border of Argentina with the sister Republic of Brazil.
The folding system catwalks Park was designed especially for, against a dramatic increase in the flow of water from the Rio Iguazu, gateways are not damaged.
When the river is low, the rails are raised walkways and allow the movement of people to the Balcony of the Devil’s Throat.
When the river rises, are refuted to allow the flow of water to pass through by reducing the resistance, thereby enabling to pass a trunk floating above.
And if the river level is very high, the flow velocity increases, and that’s when the runways, detach themselves, to avoid compromising the concrete structure. Once the swelling down again, riding the structure sections are reset.
When this process eventually occurs, the public does not agree to this circuit for safety, but the park does not close at any time, and those who are visiting can come to enjoy the splendor that acquire the rest of the jumps when the river rises, since offer an unusual majesty that can only be appreciated in these cases.
This system of walkways and security, proposed and approved by the National Parks Administration was possible thanks to the work of replacement of old walkways of the park for current, characterized by an ecological architectural development specially designed for that in this type of natural events, structural piles safeguard, preventing the circuit is closed for years, as with the previous infrastructure.
