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12 March: Brazilian Iguazu Falls and Itaipu

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12 March: Brazilian Iguazu Falls and Itaipu

March 12, 2006

I arrived in Foz do Iguazu early morning after an overnighter from Florianopolis. I did a quick trip out to the Itaipu dam. Damn impressive (sorry engineer gag)- the power station makes 90% of Paraguay's power and 25% of Brazil's power. The dam was spilling at the time and according to the guide there was more than 10 times teh amount of water going over the spillway than iguazu falls.

Didn't realise how impressive that was until seeing the falls from the Brazilian side later that day. Continued over the border to Puerto Iguazu in Argentina on the same day.

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timstraveltips says:

Hi there,
I have written a page on Iguazu Falls,
http://www.worldgreatestsites.com/iguazu_falls.htm
and am interested to know if you would like to exchange links with me.

If you are interested, please reply to me at timstraveltips@gmail.com with the URL which you'd like me to link.

Many thanks.
Tim

Posted on: Sep 11, 2008

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