Read here some interesting details about the world`s biggest power plant: It took nearly 10 years from sketch board to completion (1973 to 1983). 28,000 men and women were building it in night shifts and with all the concrete, which they produced, casted and smoothed by manual labour, you could rebuilt a town of 5 million citizans just like Rio de Janeiro. 80,000 tons steel was worked up.

Itaipú is 7,7 km long and produces 12,600 mega watt, which outperforms the delivered engergie of the Assuan dam seven times. The main wall is 1,2 km long and nearly 100 m wide and today it dams up a lake of 1,400 m². Itaipú`s turbines deliver 2/3 of the electricity, which Brazil had produced all in all before the dam was built. The 18 turbines are the biggest ever designed. Every wheel has a diameter of almost 7 meters and weighs more than 300 tons. The worker`s camp consisted of flats for 28,000 workers and their families (more or less 150,000 people), two hospitals, one maternity hospital, schools for 13,000 pupils each year, churches, leisure and sports facilities.

A must for everyone visiting Paraguay or Brazil for their first time are the Iguacu waterfalls. A humour of nature and eruptions of a volcano as milions of years ago well as shifts of the South American continental plateaus built this stage for an unique prodigy. Over a length of more than 5 km plunges the water of Rio Iguacu down.

It is possible to see all 221 rapits from any perspecitve: good built promenads allow views from the most exciting places. A trip with helicopters gives the opportunity to see the phenomenon from sky. But either from land or from sky - the impressions are overwhelming.

The surrounding`s high density of water vapour is reason for an extremly fertile soil, which is home for a great number of annimals and plants. Myriads of butterflies will follow each of your steps.

The waterfalls are a few kilometers north of the three lands: Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.