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It could be that they have already changed it again. The mandatory guiding to visit the falls was extremely poorly received.

The problem was a mixture of:

-a lot of food concessions in the park
-a lot of poorly behaved visitors
-almost no ranger presence / control of anything

all yielding a situation with coatis and monkeys totally tame and shameless and being aggressive and robbing food all over the place, confrontations between animals and people, people leaving trash, etc.

So they instituted a system where you had to enter with a guide. Which no one wanted except the local guiding consortium.

But perhaps they have now scrapped it, I've not been since pre-pandemia, I'll have to ask around / look into it.

[QUOTE="pbjosh, post: 4287986, member: 117939"] It could be that they have already changed it again. The mandatory guiding to visit the falls was extremely poorly received. The problem was a mixture of: -a lot of food concessions in the park -a lot of poorly behaved visitors -almost no ranger presence / control of anything all yielding a situation with coatis and monkeys totally tame and shameless and being aggressive and robbing food all over the place, confrontations between animals and people, people leaving trash, etc. So they instituted a system where you had to enter with a guide. Which no one wanted except the local guiding consortium. But perhaps they have now scrapped it, I've not been since pre-pandemia, I'll have to ask around / look into it. [/QUOTE]

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