Foz do Iguaçu e Itaipu

 

Foz do Iguaçu

Curitiba had left the night knowing that we expect a journey of twelve hours to get to our next destination. We arrived in the resort of Foz de Iguaçu roughly around six in the morning off by the unexpected cold that has forced us to close in a bar to swallow two of cafe-tazzone boiling milk in an attempt to warm. Fattici courage we left to go to find some information on housing and found a hostel that did the job we have to turn a bus that brought us close to that hostel. Arrived at the destination we had to wait until you free some beds in the dormitory and in the meantime we cadge breakfast organizing our stay in town. Stowed luggage and enjoy the beautiful sunny day, we decided to do a second and immediately starting to discover the largest waterfalls in the world (at the side of Niagara), true and only reason that we had pushed so far. Glean information from the reception for the hostel we were directed to turn a bus around forty-five minutes led us to the entrance of the National Park Foz de Iguaçu. Prey to a serious financial crisis and by good Italians, we have tried to bribe the direction of the park to gain entry by saying that we were free of established journalists who worked for Italian television. Almost "intortati", the leaders we have chosen to pay the tickets because we should have free entry to wait more than two hours. The park was huge and expensive and many proposed activities related to rafting the long walks between the forest, from bungee jumping up to more intensive boat under the falls. We could not afford any, we opted to head immediately to the main attraction that the other is free. At the entrance to the park we climbed on a bus tour, those without a roof, and fell straight to the last stop: the waterfalls of Iguaçu. This immense and spectacular attraction is located on the border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay and is incredibly easy as taking a boat you can find in minutes in three different countries. E 'possible to visit the falls is from the Argentinian Brazilian: us without a reason we were in the Brazilian side, the choice which we believe was fortunately apt because it was the ideal position to appreciate the majesty of this flow of water . Needless to waste too many words to describe such a spectacle of nature we should refer to the photos are also aware that they are not sufficient to capture such beauty. We walked a long tour through the trails along the falls to get to a catwalk that stretched like an arm in the middle of them. Surrounded by an almost deafening noise and humidity soup we have gone up at the end of the walkway right time to take two photos and hastily return to the mainland. At the end, we waited a futuristic elevator proceeds lives among the rocks of the mountain that has brought us back early on in the top where we met with some cute animals that filled the park. It was a sort of nano ant particularly reckless and used to steal all kinds of things to unsuspecting tourists. Ripigliato the bus until we arrived at the park where we have taken another direction hostel: we were dead tired, hungry and dirty. Shower and dinner in bed now!

Itaipu

Another tourist attraction of the town, certainly smaller than the falls, was the Itaipu hydroelectric power plant considered by many one of the seven wonders of the world. This is a work of engineering built into more than ten years that will satisfy 90% of electricity needs of Paraguay and 25% of that of Brazil. The surprising thing of this architectural colossus is the low environmental impact that has been in the areas around which instead of being damaged, it releases improved and reinforced. Curious all this information the next morning we started to discover this human miracle. After an hour's bus we were at the gates of the power station and bought a ticket, we are preparing to begin a three-hour tour that took us first to see the dam and its turbines and then by bus to cross the dam itself and to move towards a derived natural park on the edge of the reservoir which is made in research, development and conservation of plants and animals. Enriched by this new information there we are back at home: it was time to redo the backpacks and take another bus, this time with destiny Florianopolis.