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Ciudad Del Este Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ciudad Del Este, Paraguay
Illegal Immigrants
This is a top pick! ... 've ever seen and apparently a lot of the money goes to support terrorist groups and drug running. Wicked. The Great Border Run - Ciudad del Este, Paraguay We don´t have a visa for Paraguay and weren´t about to pay $45 US for one, so we headed to ...
Water water everywhere
This is a top pick! ... here, the Iguassu and the Parana, and the middle of the junction is the point where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet - the so called triple frontier . Reading something about this area on the internet, it seems that George ...
Three Countries In A Day.
This is a top pick! ... watching some street urchins have a bit of a fight over territory for cleaning car windscreens! We found the border city of Cuidad Del Este rather dirty, unkempt, and unappealing. After a long day it was back to our hostel, hoping for a better nights ...
One Big Dam
This is a top pick! ... world types of fences. A few stray pylons managed to escape and race across the green countryside. Border Crossing Getting back to Ciudad del Este was better than expected. After flipping the bird at a bus that didn`t stop to pick me up, I was ...
If only for a day
This is a top pick! As mentioned earlier, Paraguay is just across the border from us here in Iguassu. The border town of Ciudad del Este is known as a commercial center, due to it´s location near the border and Paraguay´s lack of sales tax. So John ...
Brazil's side of the falls
In the morning we took a bus over the border and into Brazil. From there we reentered Iguazu National Park. There is only about 20% of the falls actually on this side but the views from here were spectacular. There are 275 cascades ...
Gringo Day Trip
A day trip to Paraguay, where we ended up being gingos shopping, not very pleasant being recognised as a gringo for one as it dicated the way the day would go, being followed and hassled by all. The day was shortly lived in ...
Dodgy as hell
"Dodgy as hell", that's how someone described Ciudad del Este to me. Wandering through its shopping streets - a counterfeiter's paradise where everything (most of it illegal) is for sale - I can understand how the description came about. Moreover, the ...
Paraguay!!
... the immingration room before venturing into the unknown. We had been forewarned that there were no faclities for tourists in Paraguay and that Ciudad del Este was a dump. To be fair, when our previous hotel owner asked us what our next destination was ...
Paraguay, Ciudad del Este
Fri 3.10.08: Paraguay, Ciudad Del Este PERSONAL: Leaving Bonito behind at 6pm, it was then a 16hr bus to tri-border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Arrived through "Ponte da Amizade" (Friendship Bridge) which connects Ciudad del Este ...
Ciudad del Este
... once again tried our border-crossing luck and took a bus that leaves Argentina, crosses through Brazil and then arrives in Cuidad del Este (West City), Paraguay an hour later. We were hoping to get a tour or at least see the enormous Itaipu Dam (one of ...
Caos, Estres...
Dijous vam fer visita a Paraguay, estres total, i després vam anar a la part de Brasil de les Catarates de Iguazu. Les Fotos expliquen més que les meves ...
Wasting valuable time in Paraguay
... in Paraguay, it was a lot greener than other countries and tractor shops were as popular as corner shops at home. We arrived in Ciudad del Este to find no information about anything at the bus station, it was getting late so we jumped on a bus heading for ...
Das größte Wasserkraftwerk der Erde
... - das größte Wasserkraftwerk der Erde. Haben wir uns dann natürlich auch gleich noch angeschaut.Das Kraftwerk versorgt ganz Paraguay mit Strom und immerhin rund 20 Prozent des riesigen Brasiliens.Vor Ort ist alles sehr auf modern getrimmt. Man sieht, ...
Am I in the Midwest or Paraguay???
... settlers were Spanish, Italian and German in this area and it really looks like a combination of that. Overall, I'm really enjoying Paraguay and I'm looking forward to the rest of the trip to continue seeing these rural areas. Did I mention how ...
Snartur til Paraguay
Tok turen over i dag 16.7. Vi tok drosje og det var enkelt å komme over. Stedet er helt surrealistisk med handleboder og kjøpesentre så langt øye kan se. Masse elektonikkartikkler billig. Så seriøse ut også. Stedet var preget av STOR trafikk og ...
Big, big dam(n)
... het wel alsof ik in freaking India beland ben. Wat een chaos, wat een gekte, wat geweldig! Welkom in Paraguay. Ik ben in Ciudad del Este (Lisenka bleef een dagje poedelen aan het zwembad in het hostel in Argentinie) en aangezien zowel de Brazilianen en ...
"There is no law..."
... information agents we’ve encountered so far. So with map in hand, we exited the doors to the crazy town that is Ciudad del Este. If we were looking for a quick way to describe this place, we’d have to just say - imagine Mumbai on ...
Ciudad del Este
A nice little 3 hour shopping trip across the border to Paraguay... Ciudad del Este (City of the East) isn't as bad as many of the other cities that border with Brazil, but even so, just being over there was a ...
Electronics mecca!
Pirated DVDs, fake memory sticks, and actual "real" eclectronics equipment was the reason to visit Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. We walked across the border into Paraguay where we saw multiple electronics smugglers lower massive packages to people ...
CZ Itaipu prehrada
Dalsi den jsme vyrazili na jednodenni vylet do Praguaie na Itaipu prehradu (nejvetsi hydroelekrarna na svete). Hraz lezi mezi Praguaii a Brazilii. Aboslvovali jsme zde hodinovou projizdku okolo hraze ktera byla zadara. ...
Paraguay
... number of cars crossing the border are pulled over and checked, for us it was a simple task and the first difference about Paraguay that strikes you is the poverty, not the same kind of poverty as India and China, not as destitute, for instance there are ...
Shopping for guns in Paraguay
Ciudad Del Este is known as the "Supermarket of South America" as its renowned for contraband goods and cheap prices particularly for electronics, computers, iPods etc. This is what tempted us over the border to see whether we could pick up any bargains! ...
EN Itaipu Dam
Next day we took 1 hour bus to Paraguay to see largest hydroelectric dam in the world – Itaipu dam which is located between Paraguay and Brazil. We went on free 1 hour fantastic tour around it. ...
Riding the bus to Ciudad del Este, rainy day..
... ! Sandra drove me and Adri into town, where they helped me find a good bus company, and around 9.30am I left for Ciudad del Este, where I am now.. Andrea(from CS)´s parents picked me up from the bus station, and now I´m at their beautiful home, ...