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Foz de Iguacu Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Foz de Iguacu, Brazil
Waterfalls
... and get quite wet) and they look amazing! As always the photos show it better. In the late afternoon, we got the bus over to Brazil, which is really easy and stayed in a hotel that again was a little way out of the centre but had a swimming pool, tennis ...
Iguaçu's 6 most awe-inspiring displays of power
... in the form of beer mean that we haven't had a huge number of traditional south american meals. However in Iguacu we decided to change that. Brazil is famous less for its food (beef) and more for its portion sizes (lots of beef). Specifically, they ...
Iguazu Falls Brazil's side
After almost 14 hours of bus ride, I finally got to Foz do Iguaçu. Finally bad weather has caught up with me. It rained the whole day on Thursday. I spend most of the day at the Bird Park with the intention to checkout the Brazilian side of Iguazu Falls. ...
BIG WATER y-guasu = Iguacu Falls
... and stretching 2.7 km. (No, I have not seen Niagara yet.) Some statistics: Name Argentina side = Cararates de Iguazu (Spanish) Brazil = Foz du Iguacu (Portuguese) 2.7 km (1.7 miles) long Average flow 396,258 gallons per second Peak flow 1,717,118 gallons ...
The Falls - Brazil
We dropped off our gear at the b&b and due to our rumbling bellys headed straight out for dinner. Our first Brazilian BBQ experience. For those from Aberdeen it was like Tropiero without the green/red cards and yes I tried chicken heart for the first ...
Cataratas del Iguazú
... day. In between I took a city bus up to the Itaipu dam, located on the Parana river and built jointly by Paraguay and Brazil in the 1970s. It provides 90-95% of Paraguay's energy and 25% of Brazil's, and is the largest hydroelectric plant in the ...
An extra day in Foz do Iguazu
Yes, but I had a good day because I visited the falls again till it was time to take the ...
Foz de Iguazu, the last station of my Westy
To IGUAZU FALLS. after making a stopover in Blumenau, a very german settlement (not that nice though) i drove all the way to Foz de Iguazu. For one thing i wanted to see The Falls again (which i did first more than 10 years ago), and to sell my ...
Iguacu Falls
The highlight of the trip was a day at the Iguacu Falls on the border between Brazil and Argentina. A bus ride and a boat ride preceded the ...
Erster Kongresstag
... sehr warm und herzlich. Zwischendrin erfuhr ich, dass man für mich in Brasilien ein Projekt hat und ich auch Rio de Janeiro beruflich besuchen werde. Ich soll dort zu einem anderen Scheringprodukt die Mitarbeiter unterstützen. Daher werde ich nachher ...
Last stop in Brazil.... Obrigado!
... here. Other than Rio, I think we’ve met the most diverse groups of travelers here; US, Canada, Swizterland, Brazil, France, Slovakia, Argentina....it is certainly a world-wide attraction. We will go to the falls tomorrow, and we are ...
Rain at Iguassu = Relaxing at Hostel Natura
I woke up to rain and realised I'd forgotten to turn my alarm on the previous night. After breakfast and a shower I relaxed for the rest of the day in the hostel common room After the last day and a half really needed break, and the weather really ...
That's banana-cheap
... get back into what we came here for... long bus trips. We needed to get to Porto Alegre to catch a bus to Foz do Iguaçu. The Uruguay/Brazil border of Chui Chuy has a reputation of being the most complicated in South America if you attempt to cross it ...
Iguassu Falls
Iguassu Falls, undeniably one of the greatest sights of the natural world, stands on the border of Argentina and Brazil just south of Paraguay. The falls can be seen from both the Argentine and Brazilian sides and offer a different view from each. ...
Iguazu - the Brazilian side
Iguazu National Park is home to the largest remnant of the Atlantic forest in Brazil. The falls are formed by the waters of the Iguazu River. Today there are approximately 275 waterfalls with the largest water flow occurring in October and the smallest ...
Iguacu Falls From Another Point of View
From Rio de Janeiro we took another 24 hour bus ride to the Iguacu Falls (the Brazilian side). When we arrived we quickly went to our Hostel to unload our backpacks and headed for the Argentinean border for some of the GREAT meats, cheeses and wine! We ...
Des merveilles humaines ?
... turbine a un débit de 690m³/s (soit la moitié des chutes d'Iguaçu) et produit 700 Megawatts. Dans l'intervalle, la ville de Foz do Iguaçu est passée de 20000 habitants à plus de 300000 aujourd'hui, grace à l'afflux massif de travailleurs (au ...
Majestic
... falls are absolutely fasinating. There are over 260 falls cascading over the edge. Bin gerade mit dem Uebernacht-Bus nach Foz de Iguacu angereist und konnte ein wenig schlafen aber nicht sehr tief. Nach Ankunft sind wir zuerst direkt zu einem Vogelpark ...
The most spectacular waterfalls in the world!
... , ´these things are amazing!´ The falls of Iguaçu are the result of a combination of rivers from Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, all merging into one and heading for a massive drop off into a single fast flowing river, which offers some spectacular ...
The Other Side of the Falls
... but the setup, the layout of the Argentina side gives you a lot more ways to experience the falls. We spent two hours on the Brazil side and almost 6 hours wandering around the Argentine side - we took the small train, and then the 1km catwalk, out to the ...
Iguaza Falls
Our 10am bus from Asuncion, Paraguay to Foz do Iguazu, Brazil should have taken 5-6 hours. Things looked hopeful as about 5 1/2 hours after departing, we got to the Paraguay-Brazil border and could see Foz in the distance. We joined a queue of coaches. ...
Finally the Falls
Foz de Iguacu is one of Brazil's major attractions other than the amazon. For those of you keeping up with my blog you may have seen we made one attempt to see them which was scuppered by a car accident. Well, as Marcelo's cousin Gildomar has a shop, ...
Waterfalls
After a very uncomfortable overnight bus, we arrived in our first Brazilian city, Foz de Iguazu, first thing in the morning. Our first day we visited the Brazilian side of Iguazu Falls which had an amazing panoramic view of the massive ...
A Cataratas od sousedu
Dneska jsme dle planu (fuj to je ale osklive slovo) navstivily vodopady z brazilske strany, ktera sice nemela umoznit tak primy kontakt s vodopady jako argentynska, zato mela poskytnou celkovy pohled a prilezitosti pro panoramaticka fota. Nabizel se i ...
Let it rain, Let it rain, Let it rain
... by a 4 day trek into the Jungle starting on Monday 23. We can hardly wait for the multiple 5.30am starts! So we leave Brazil behind us and look forward to the next exciting phase of thr trip in Peru! Thanks for all your emails - we promise ...
275 waterfalls, eh?
"275 waterfalls? C'mon now, you're jokin me!" I exclaim as my bus heads towards Iguassu Falls, the Brazilian side. I say the Brazilian side because Iguassu Falls is no ordinary bunch of waterfalls. Oh no. It's the 5 meat patty whopper of waterfalls. It's ...
Foz de Iguacu
Race to meet John James (for those that don´t know him - an old varsity friend come to join us for two weeks) at the falls. Brazilian side is pretty shitty (the town itself not the falls) Falls- see ...
Iguazu falls take two
... Iguazu from the Brazilian side too. We had a relatively pain-free border crossing and then travelled onwards to the town of Foz do Iguacu where we spent the night. The following morning we set out on the arduous journey to reach the falls. This ...
Elegant Violence
... it is probably better for our own safety that we didn´t. A couple other neat things we did in the town of Foz do Iguazu, Brazil, before we headed into Argentina was to visit the Itaipu hydroelectric dam. Doesn´t sound terribly exciting, I know, but ...