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 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:25:14 BST Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:25:14 BST 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 For everyone who thinks of government as a nightmare and for those who pray to the bible of Laisserfaire Ciudade del Este Paraguay is your paradisio. With a population estimated at near 140000 this small town on the Paraguayan border with Brazil a bridge away from the Brazilian tourism town of Foz do Iguau Ciudade del Este boasts a taxfree market that draws attention from buyers in Argenti http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-68553.html This is my only picture from Ciudad del Este and there is a reason for that. Even though we had been told not to go there by some people and others told us it was the Taiwan of Latin America a good place to buy cheap electronics so we should go there we decided that we wanted to see a little bit of Paraguay. Even though we got out alive and with all of our possessions it was not a very good i http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-65022.html Before we arrived in Ciudad del Este my perception of the town based on everything I had heard about it was that it was in the words of ObiWan Kenobi a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Actually it is just another city not unlike many other cities in the world. The crime rate may be the highest in Paraguay but then Paraguay is not exactly overrun with criminal activity at least not the http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-52570.html Yes we know 2 hours in one country doesn't warrant a blog page especially as there are no accompanying photographs but we were there albeit rather briefly. And it was a bit of a mammoth border crossing day actually as we started and ended the day in Argentina We were in Foz Do Iguacu which is the nearest town to the Brazilian side of Iguacu Falls and almost spitting distance from Ciudad http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-34326.html Ciudad del Este in Paraguay is within a half an hour bus ride from Foz do Iguau Brazil where we spent the night. From what I've read the city supposed to be a chaotic little town lively with many markets and duty free goods which are big here in South America. On top of that Ciudad del Este is famous to be the most corrupt city in the continent.Many Brazilians and Argentines go to Ciudad http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-33285.html From Foz Do Iguazu the Brazilian city near the falls we took a day trip into Paraguay. We crossed the Friendship Bridgeby local bus and entered Ciudad del Estewithout passing border control or any checkpoint.It certainly felt like a different country when we stepped off the bus though. Every shop had armed guards standing outside. At one point we wandered through what we assume was a cash http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Paraguay/Ciudad-del-Este/blog-31473.html