An early start to get up to the park around Itaipu Dam. The dam built accross the parana river was a bit ecological story when I was at school in the 1970's. The dam 8 kms long and about 190 mts high ceated a dam 175 kilometres long. The idea was to resue all the wildlife before the dam filled which they thought would take about 4 months. In the end the dam filled to overflowing in just 2 weeks. Loads of wildlife was lost.
Today it must be said the dam corporation doesa great deal for the environment and this one dam provide enough electricity for the 90% of Paraguay and 20% of Brazil it is about the same as 9 nuclear power stations. I went on thge special tour that took us down into the dam to see the generotion hall and the spinning turbine shafts.
A very interesting 3 hours.
At 3:00 I went to the Iguacu falls on the Brazillian side. What a sight! With it being the end of the rainy seaon the river was in full spet and the falls were magnificent. You could hear and feel the falls long before you saw them.
Again decriptions can never give a true feel of the might of these cateracts. Niagra is nothing compaired to these and they give Victoria falls a run for the money.
It was very hot, into the mid 30's with high humidity and the spray from the river all in all an exciting experience.
Tommorow I move on to Argentina and have a rest day before again visiting the falls from the other side.
