Itaipu dam, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

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October 30th 2010

Published: November 16th 2010

The second bigest dam of the world (after the Chinese Three Gorges), but producing the most electric energy in the world more than 90 TWh) per year. There are free guided tours around the dam explaining the history and the facts. But, of course, the iformation you get is a propaganda of the Paraguayan government hiding how much was destroyed building this enormous dam which started in 1973 and the... Read Full Entry

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walking to the nearby museum and zoo

next termitary

a bit tired...

Museo de la tierra Guarani

explaing the history of the Guarani people

ostriches

tucans

even in very bad weather their colours loook great ;)

the zoo is not much animal friendly...

what a hair :O

the lake at the zoo

few kms around the dam there are power lines just everywhere

licence plate of the a police car

I spent more than two hours with the Paraguayan police (and than on the police station) which tryied to get bribe from me. But after the information that I'm working as a journalist, they started to be very friendly and drove me 20kms to my hostel :)

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Itaipu dam, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

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