Argentina & Brazil Travel Review: Iguazu Falls, Rio Negro, Mendoza, Bariloche, Tierra del Fuego, WIne Tasting, Private Tours

We had a wonderful trip.  We were truly blessed from day one.  It is the rainy season so we expected rain.  We landed in a torrential downpour. Lightning, thunder, visibilty about three feet.  We read that  people are usually late in South America, so don't get worried if your driver isn't there to meet you.  We were expecting this and were suprised to find our driver's and guides all of them but one waiting for us.  The one who was late said he thought the pickup was 06:30, not 06:00.  We got to the hotel everything was done.  Walked in said who we were and they said the room is ready. Your guide will pick you up in the morning.
The next morning the guide was waiting on us.  We had a great time fishing in the Solomon river.  We caught a lot of fish.  My wife said we caught at least 15 each.  We had lunch at a buffet on the river that was really good and they also had things to buy made by the people there.  I bought a blowgun that was really cool.  It rained all morning, I live in east texas, Houston area, when I say rain I am talking two inches per hour.  Around noon it quit and never rained again our entire trip.
The next day we did a river cruise on the Rio Negro for a week Kieran booked for us. It was first class.  The ship was beautiful, it was all done like turn of the 1900's.  A lot of wood and really nice.  It was reall small only 9 couples.  It was a lot of fun. The food was great, it was local food and everyone eats in the salon large windows that open.  Our guide was a native from a tribe higher in the mountains.  We had told Kieran that my wife was a veterinarian and she would like to see animals and I didn't want to have a bunch of people in a group.  Exactly what we wanted.  Every day started with either a kayak, or small boat ride to look for birds and animals. The back for breakfast.  Then there was the jungle hike, back for lunch.  Afternoon boat ride, back for dinner. Evening boat ride to look for night animals.  It was a great time.  I highly reccommend it.
Then it was off to Argentinia to the Iguazu Falls.  We were met by our guide.  She was the best.  I don't know how Kieran found her but she was incredible.  When she found out I wasn't vaccinated, she arranged for a doctor to meet me at the hotel at 6:30 at night to do a covid test.  When she found out it was our anniversary she booked us a room and got us a cab there and back. She was with us on both sides of the falls.  She knew all about the area. We took a boat ride up to the falls and even got driven into the falls.  I couldn't stop laughing.  Our hotel was back in the jungle. I mean literally in the jungle, our porch at the back of the room was touching distance to the jungle.  It wasn't like a big hotel.  It was very intimate.  It was like a really nice lobby.  Off the lobby was the restruant, the pool, and the pool bar.  We had to walk on a boardwalk to our room.  There were three rooms to a little pod in the jungle.  Very cozy and intimate.  Places like this are why we hired Kieran  I never would have known about this place. Every place we stayed was really nice.  There were no "hotels" or "motels" they were more like estates that had rooms for you.