http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Paraguay , Ciudad del Este en-us Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:05:09 +0000 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:05:09 +0000 Today was always going to be a bit of a nothing day as we were shipping out in the evening so after wandering into town to get my first dvd burned I found an acai for breakfast and wandered back to the hotel 7 of us had elected to go to Paraguay for a couple of hours an illicit border raid if you will as we didn't get the passport stamps. Customs was just a chap sitting under a tree.. The con http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-452951.html Steve's wordsAnother great border crossing into Paraguay the locals just catch the boat non locals catch a series of local buses to a bridge with big rusty holes in it then wade through some mud dodge our way past hundreds of people exchanging money passport stamped then onto a tiny bus with far too many people on and we're in. Asuncion the capital of Paraguay the words of the lonely plan http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-445306.html Itaipu Dam Second largest in the world http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-444524.html Nous avons fait une visite rapide aux frontieres de trois pays Paraguay Argentine et Bresil en allant admirer les deuxiemes plus grandes chutes d'eau du monde apres celle de Victoria en Afrique Les Foz d'Iguazu.Les photos parlent d'elles meme...Lorsqu'on arrive sur le site on est un peu decu...enfin je fut un peu decu car je m'attendais a quelque chose de plus grandiose mais en fait c'est s http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-422725.html Cuidad del Este 12th to the 15th of June 2009 Cuidad del Este is a strange place coming to terms with a strange past it was previously named after a Paraguayan dictator and has a history of black market activities. It's full of electronic shops and Asian food casinos and market stalls. It also borders Brazil and Argentina. It was dark when the bus arrived in Cuidad del Este so we got ourselv http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-409630.html The supposed Express bus to Ciudad from Asuncion was anything but it stopped almost every 5 minutes to pick some passengers that is when we were able to get out of the city proper which took about an hour. The 5 hour trip took 7 hours and we were relieved to arrive finally in Ciudad del Este. We got dropped off at the front of the bus terminal not inside this we could not understand either all http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-407344.html Well Paraguay was pretty nuts. We got off just before the Brazilian border then walked along the bridge into Ciudad del Este. Full of markets and stalls and shopping centres selling cheap electrical goods. We got a few little bits and pieces then busted everyones chops trying to obtain nice crisp banknotes as we been collecting them from each country we been to so far. Getting back into Bra http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-379663.html A very blessed and merry Christmas to all of you from Villeta Paraguay. After what has seemed like weeks of almost triple digit temperatures I am enjoying a coolish day of 77 oF as I write this post it is supposed to get up to about 90 oF later but thatrsquos really nothing. It is rather different for me as I have spent 21 of my first 22 Christmases in cold weather climates with snow the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-358292.html am nachmittag gingen wir dann nach paraguay cuidad del este wo man billig elektronikzeugs kaufen koennte wenn man nicht in der siesta dort waere. zudem sassen wir den ganzen nachmittag in einem restaurant fest weil es gestuermt hat als ginge die welt unter. Aber bei einem bierchen liess es sich aushalten . http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-353388.html The next morning we say goodbye to Evelina and Foz and take a taxi to the Paraguay border R40. The driver sees us through border control and helps us exchange our money from Realis to Paraguayan Guaranis. Suddenly we are confronted with 100000 notes and calculations become very confused.Ciudad del Este is a haven for cheap electrical goods but we have no time to stop as we must get a coach to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-315646.html Cuidad del Este was a pretty god damn horrible place. Supposedly Lonely Planet describes it as the worst town in South America we learnt of this after we went there and we can completely see why. Under the former dictator President Stroessener the city then Cuidad del Stroessener became a centre for piracy and contraband being perfectly situated for both since it is on the border between P http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-305279.html How often do you end up in the wrong country This is the question that we were asking ourselves as we sat on the foopath in some kind of industrial estate in Cuidad del Este in Paraguay.... We werent meant to be here we didnt want to be here we were supposed to be in Brasil......Now before you all started painiking we actually werent that far away from Brasil probably no more than a kilome http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-263716.html I don't like to travel in a hurry. I like to enjoy the place I'm visiting feel the atmosphere do some sightseeing eat the local food have a chat with the locals... But this time I coudn't do it. It was a short trip to a place with lots to see so I knew I'd not sleep much and would have to watch the clock in order to see as much as possible.When I told my friends I was heading to Ciudad del Es http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-229171.html La patate ce matin je dois me faire les chutes ct argentin et visiter la ville frontalire de Puerto Iguau je suis ravi. Problme... il fait super gris. Je prends mon tidj seul dans la salle il n'y a pas d'autres pensionnaires en ce moment. Merde il flotte et franchement en plus Je suis du il va falloir que je modifie mes plans j'irai aujourd'hui Ciudad del Este et a Itaipu. La na http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-197191.html i know this blog is really out of date but ill do my best to catch up so we actually walked into paraguay across the friendship bridge from brazil into paraguay youd imagine it was a little rope bridge across a jungle or something or maybe thats just me being silly anyway it wasnt and the border town ciudad del este didnt look all that enticing. so we trekked across the bridge with our http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-136226.html As the title suggests we just popped into Paragury to collect a border stamp and add to our list of countries visited. We jumped on the bus in Brazil Foz D'Iguassu and got off in Paraguay. We had to ask the border official for a stamp who seemed quite surprisedWe then spent no more than half an hour walking up the street from the border and back. No impression can be made of a country where we s http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-126315.html day 9...my credit card has still not arrived... i am begining to feel like i am stuck in an episode of survivor living off dodgey hostel food.anyways...the most corrupt city in South America... i have not seen too much corruption in south america although i would have to agree that this place must have its fair share.i decided to get out and do a bit more travel and not let the hinderance of havi http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-121841.html Foz de Iguazu sijaitsee Brasilian Paraguayn ja Argentiinan rajalla. Tnne saavuttiin aamusella joten hotellin lytymisen jlkeen hypttiin bussiin ja matkustettiin Ciudad del Esteen Paraguayn puolelle. Kaupunki on tunnettu EtelAmerikan suurimpana shoppailupaikkana ja brasilialaiset ja argentiinalaiset tuppaavat itsekin kyd siell ostoksilla. Paikka taitaa mys olla tunnettu rahanpesusta ja s http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-119698.html Paraguay To be honest although i did go over to Paraguay on my own I only spent two hours there visiting a couple of shops and so was little more than another stamp in the old passport which I am annoyed to say i didnt actually get.Paraguay is the second poorest country in South America after Bolivia but does have very low taxes on consumer products which makes it very popular with Brazili http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-73683.html After our adventure in Brazil we hit a parrilla to fill our stomachs and headed to bed fairly early a consequence of not sleeping much on the coche cama and the fact that Puerto Iguazu isnt a place to spend resources on nightlife. The next morning we awoke and found the bus to Parque Nacional Iguazu . Considered by many the premier waterfalls in the world they straddle the Brazil Argen http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-72911.html