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Brazil to Argentina Border – From Iguaçu to Iguazú…..
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 7 October 2010
After an extensive search through our guidebooks on the best way to cross the border from Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil to Puerto Iguazú in Argentina and only finding information about doing the journey in the other direction, we decided that, failing pushing ourselves off the edge of the falls on the Brazilian side and [...]
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Iguaçu Falls, Both Sides of the Tale…
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 7 October 2010
THE BRAZILIAN SIDE – Foz do Iguaçu – 28/09/10 When Eleanor Roosevelt visited the falls she commented ‘poor Niagra’. I haven’t seen Niagra, but these falls are four times wider. In comparison to Southern Africa’s Victoria Falls that separate Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Youlguacu Falls are more extensive and you have the ability to walk around them [...]
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Holy Guaçu, Sethman!
Blog: Seth of the Equator - 19 March 2010
I spent the last two days at Iguazú Falls on the Argentine-Brazilian border. It was among the most awe-inspiring things I've seen in my entire life. Supposedly, when Eleanor Roosevelt visited Brazil, she went to the falls, and exclaimed, "Poor Niagara!" Poor Niagara indeed. If you can imagine dropping a tropical jungle into the Grand Canyon, and then having 275 individual waterfalls springing out everywhere you look, that gives a bit of a sense of the place. What I had never quite comprehended from pictures was the scale of the thing.
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Paranagua, Brazil
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 26 August 2009
If Brazil is a Nine West and we are a size 8...then Sao Paolo and Rio (which we visited a couple years back) would be a pair of 8 1/2 black patent stilettos--stylish, glamorous, but maybe a tad too big. Ouch, blisters. We both decided we were ready to try something a little smaller on for size. Problem was we weren't exactly sure what we were looking for. We showed up at the Sao Paulo bus station, picked a bus to Curitiba which left in 10 minutes, and we were on our way.
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Curitiba, Brazil
Blog: Cities for People - 20 April 2009
Following on from my earlier article on the Western Harbour Malmo, here is a new description of Curitiba, Brazil. As Cities for People go, Curitiba stands as a shining example. 3 time Mayor of Curitiba Jaime Lerner was first appointed in 1971. Jaime Lerner believed that Curitiba should be a city for people, not for cars. And his belief [...]
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