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Just outside Ciudad del Este is a hydroelectric installation, in fact the third largest in the world. It was built jointly by Paraguay and Brazil, and of course we had to see it!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam It is big, and impressive, and the visit was well organised and free. From there we started on our zigzagging through the country. It felt like going back west was returning to the Paraguay we liked so much. The countryside is nice, and the people are fri

From Asunción we drove south to make a round trip of the country. Our first stop south was Pilar, and then we drove east to Encarnacion, and from there back north to Ciudad del Este. The landscape is shifting with farmland and forests, and there is large areas of wetland and swamps along the river on the way south and again going east. When turning north again, the soil turned red and there is huge fields of soybeans, miles of them as far as you can see. It is interesting

To enter Paraguay from Argentina, we drove from Corrientes to the crossing via Puente Internacional Falcón-Clorinda. This crossing is a very short distance from the center of Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. It is one of those convenient ones with everything done from the car and leaving and entering through one person. We were both very ignorant and knew just about nothing about Paraguay. It turned out this is a common thing and that most people just don't even think ab