300 feet straight down into a shroud of mists…… The Devil’s Nose. With apologies to Bunny, it is awesome! Click on the picture—it is a video. The numbers: one of about 170 falls, depending on how you want to count them. Bigger, higher, more thunderous than Niagara, surrounded by about 500,000 acres of national parks which in turn are surrounded by thousands more acres of local parks put into place as a buffer for the national parks. Some can only be approached from the Brazil side where we stayed at a fabulous hotel, the only hotel located within the park (about 6 miles inside) and with views of the falls from the hotel. And the sound of the falls to sleep by… The biggest, highest, and widest falls can only be approached from the Argentine side. It takes about an hour to make the loop but, Wow, what beauty, power, noise…. Unlike a “small” waterfall which develops a pattern of sound–beautiful noise– of surges, spurts, relatively high-pitched crashes, and roars, these falls are so large that the sound is just one continuous thunder. One continuous low frequency thunder. That said, it is not really a roar in the sense of, say, a lion’s roar or a train’s roar that has a rising beginning, peak, and falling off. You can tell, you can feel, that this roar, this rumble, has no beginning and no end. The undiminished, unending, power is unmistakably going right into your bones.