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May 3rd 2006

Published: May 29th 2006

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Vitaliy

Me & Ray

Brazilian side

What will you get if you'd take a little bit of water, OK really A L L O T of water, and add some gravity effect to it?
The answer is in the photos.

Incredible.
Unbelievable.
Huge.
Gigantic.
Amazing.
Tropical.

Iguazu falls do deserve to be one of the 7 worlds' wonders.
The waterfalls are actually not just one cascade of water, but are more than 300 different cascades, in the total length of 2.7 km!
It took me more than 3 full days to see everything this amazing place has to offer.

The waterfalls lie in the border area between 3 states - Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
Paraguay got only one of the rivers, while Argentina and Brazil got the waterfalls themselves.
The Brazilian side gives a panoramic look, and in the Argentinean side you can get as close as you like, from any possible angle - even from upwards.

Wanting some action, I even did a boat ride that went under few of the smaller waterfalls, and it was fun, although short.
After giving opportunity to making some photos, with the

Brazilian side

words 'Yalla Miklahat' the driver of the boat took us directly under'em, so we were soaked afterwords,
and I can proudly say that I'd experienced the falls in almost any possible way.

In the Brazilian side lies another world wonder, although not natural but man made - the Itaipu dam which is the biggest dam in the world, in the length of almost 8 km.

It produces 14 GW - 25% of the total electric energy consumed by Brazil, and 95% of that consumed in Paraguay.
Its each pipe is 10m in diameter
40,000 people worked to construct it
It took 21 years to build it

So, if you sum it all, add to it the fact that we stayed in a hostel that had a pool (the biggest in the area as it claimed), you can understand what a blast of a time we had there.

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