Today we had a tour of the Itaipu dam, wich generates the most powerof any hydroelectric dam in the world and is one of the 'modern wonders of the world'. It wasnt really tall like the hoover dam, but it stretches for 7235 m and holds back a huge reservior (1350 square kilometres) that powers the huge turbines. Its a bit sad really, because all in that space used to be towns and farms, but now its just a shitload of water.Because the dam is on the brazillian and paraguaynian border, its actually in a neutral zone where no one actually owns it, and both contries contribute and recieve 50% from it. for example the amount of workers is the same between the two contries, they have the same amount of turbines and theres even a line drawn down the middle of the control room to show who's from brazil and who's from paraguay.
We're heading to a town called Pasada tomorrow, it's about 5 hours south of here, this should break up the 15 hour bus ride to Buenos Areis and has some cool old ruins that we're going to check out. We have knocked up a kind of itinerary with loose dates on it wich i'll post sometime tomorrow.
loves to all!
brad and the boys
