After seeing the almighty waterfalls, there isn´t much else to do in the little town of Foz De Iguazu, other than the bird park. So we went along as I was quite interested to see the bright pink flamingos and the big-beaked toucans. The large park is a little slice of jungle as the brightly coloured birds are able to fly around freely, unaware of the many tourists. The noise from the birds was deafening as there were squarks, squabbles and shrieks coming from all directions. Amongst the many tropical birds we saw pretty peacocks, blue and golden macaws, illuminous flamingos, tiny humingbirds, ginormous eagles and colourful toucans. As well as anaconda, alligators and boa constrictors, thankfully all caged.
It was a quite an expereince to be up close and personal with some of the most colourful, tropical, rarest birds in the world. However, I did feel rather uneasy as these slightly fierce, large-winged, big-beaked, fearless animals circled around me care-free at such a fast pace. I restisted the not-so-tempting offer to hold a giant macaw on my shoulder and opted to just stand in front of the squarking group.
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