There are a lot of scams. Don't be fooled by the fake cops. This is the country with more freedom,even allows minors to work without any issues.
The animal steps on this part, passes through it, and when stepping on this part. And so we entered Paraguay and wow, nobody asked me for my passport, I didn't have to stamp anything. An apology to the Paraguayan authorities, but I walked through, nobody told me anything.
We are located in the tri-border region of Iguazu, where Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina meet, home to one of the seven natural wonders of the world, one of the largest reserves on the planet. Green nature everywhere. Truly beautiful.
But not everything is positive. This border also has very high numbers of illegal trafficking of substances and goods and sadly humans. It is reported that here, to cross international borders from one country to another, controls are minimal, which explains why it is so easy to traffic practically anything.
In this video we will explore the area in general. We will go into the three different territories to analyze the different attractions and ways of life. We will talk to the locals.
We will also enter indigenous communities to learn about their traditions. No doubt a great adventure is in store. Let's go for it.
We start the adventure crossing to the Argentinean side. The security filters are very few. You could easily pass whatever you want in your car because no one, really, no one, checks it.
The city on the Argentine side is called Puerto Iguazú. It has a population of about one hundred,zero inhabitants and among many attractions is the Iguazu National Park, as well as some Guarani Indian communities. We were welcomed in the community of Fortín Voronezh, where about five hundred people live.
They have their soccer field, they have their houses, they use nature to prepare medicines. They still use, for example, ants to cook their wounds. They build traps to catch animals.
Let's go for a walk, to live together a little bit, let them explain some of their customs to us. Here the good Tupa is going to explain how some of the traps of the Guarani community work. Let's see this one here, tell me about it.
Well, it's in Guarani, it's called NIU Kora and with this trap you could catch birds and small animals, nothing else. The food or the seed we have to put down here. So when it steps on this twig, it falls on top and locks it in.
So it doesn't kill it, it just traps it. This trap is a trap that our ancestors used to use for hunting. The deer steps through here, passes through here, passes through here, passes through here.
As it cannot see the rope, they have to step on this part. When you step on this part. Hay wow.
This is lifted here and support here as well. Once you put this stick here, you activate the traps. Well, this stick activates the traps, the animal or bird eats, goes in, goes in, goes in, puts its head in without realizing it, has to step on this twig, then this twig hits it in the neck or head, so this kills it instantly.
They are explaining to me that we are saying Iguazú wrong, because in fact Iguazú is a word that comes from the Guaraní, which means big waters. So what is the correct pronunciation of Iguazú? Il igu chu So if you look, Iguazú is already adapted to Spanish or Portuguese, but from the Guaraní where the word comes from, it is Il igu chu.
wow, great people, great reception, now we are going to the falls, to the National Park. Wow! Well, the National Park is truly impressive.
Behind me there are more than two hundred and seventy waterfalls, it breathes very clean, it sounds very natural and in general everything has a very good infrastructure. They even have a train for tourist purposes that moves at a maximum of five kilometers per hour and there are three stations today. One of the most impressive sites called La Garganta del Diablo (Devil's Throat) is closed because the visiting point was destroyed by a great flow of water.
We are talking about the river normally flows at one. five million liters per second and out of nowhere, boom! twenty-four million liters.
Much of the structure was destroyed, but I think that's the least of it. This is equally shocking right where I'm standing. If you cross the river over there, you get to Brazil.
You simply cross the Iguazu River and it is an imaginary border, although no one really crosses the border illegally here. Just trying to do it would be a suicide mission with the speed of the river and the ravines you have to climb up and down. I'll be a very silly idea.
The simple fact of trying. I find it very curious that in the cafeterias of the National Park they put bars so that neither monkeys nor coatis can enter, because it is well known that they are thieves. Yes or yes.
There is no lack of tourists who put them on their shoulder, then they bite them, scratch them, we have to avoid accidents. So, if eating in the cafeterias of Iguazu means being in a cage, unlike a zoo, the one who stays inside the cage is the human. Now we will cross to the Paraguayan side, to Ciudad del Este, which is the most populated of the Triple Border region, with about three hundred and fifty,zero inhabitants, We can see that many people cross, see how many cars see the flow so affluent, so much so that many people choose to leave their car and cross by motorcycle cab or flat walking on the so-called Friendship Bridge to expedite the process, we will cross on foot to live the most local experience possible.
Wow, a lot of people cross the bridge, many more than from Brazil and Argentina. The bridge is about six hundred and fifty meters long and was inaugurated in one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-five. That is to say, this crossing for merchandise is not a new thing at all.
I met Alejandro here from Argentina who checked me crossed over to buy an Xbox, so I got it here in the bag, he brought his Xbox that came out at half price, right? How much? How much did you pay?
I paid $four hundred and seventy-three dollars for this series here and in Argentina it is worth more than a million dollars, the truth is that in comparison I paid sixty% cheaper. There is a lot of scam, a lot of scam. If you are going to buy please do not be fooled by people who are outside, do not be fooled by the fake policemen.
They go to identify the police because they have guns, they don't and they take them anywhere. It has happened to me. I got away, thank God.
And it wasn't because I kept my cool and said what was the name of the police? I was going to lose about $three hundred and fifty that they were asking me to leave. be careful.
Well very well, enjoy your xbox you, ha. Thank you very much, let's see, let's see. In the same way.
Many people cross to the casinos because as I was saying, in Brazil there are no casinos and on the Argentinean and Paraguayan side there is gambling. We see many signs warning about human trafficking. Be careful, there are dangerous promises.
Yes, sadly, many people are deceived. They tell them I have a job here, come with me, come with me, come with me, come with me, Tem is a very serious matter and so we entered Paraguay and wow, nobody asked me for my passport, I didn't have to stamp anything. Everyone goes straight through, an apology to the Paraguayan authorities, but I don't know, I walked through, nobody said anything to me.
As soon as you cross into Paraguay you enter a territory with two official languages, Spanish and Guarani. Here Jazmín, you are Paraguayan, right? Oh, that was in Guarani?
¡Sí! and you have to answer, ha i pora. haipora.
what does that mean? I am fine. Do all Paraguayans speak Guarani?
Some of us don't know it completely because it's difficult, but it's super good Guarani. y. If everything is full of ads for duty free stores and electronics, change your tires.
It's a very everyday thing. After the tremendous heat when crossing the bridge we cooled off with a little bit of freshly brewed tereré. Tereré is basically like mate, but cold, very typical of Paraguay.
Please boss, and here you take it in your own thermos. Paraguayan Drnks tereré? Yes, every day.
How delicious, bitter, refreshing, of course, even in the fonditas, the simplest restaurants there are gambling machines. Many people crossed Paraguay to the casinos to gamble. Yes, that is most of them.
Those who are foreigners, the foreigners go to the casino, there is a lot of casino. The subject of the games called slot machines, we say that in some countries it is forbidden, but here in Paraguay everything is free. Here in Paraguay.
Here the bus stations are turned into commercial centers. See here where you would have to wait for the bus. Our friend is selling his T-shirts, his T-shirts here too, check it out, because with this tremendous sun, you have to take advantage of the shade, and the police don't say anything about you being here at the bus stop?
Here is a place where you can work peacefully, there is no problem, so if you are a dependent, well, here he goes, minors can work there, there is no problem. That's it. In Ciudad del Este there are official and unofficial stores.
In the unofficial ones, such as this market. Of course you can find better prices in electronics, in clothes, but you run the risk that maybe they will sell you something fake, a broken phone, that is not configured, that was stolen, because although most of the merchants are going to be very honest, there are also many scams. The shopping malls that are official are usually huge.
I'm talking about buildings and you can find anything, maybe not at the most convenient price, but you can make a lot of money, especially in taxes. Tell me, do you sell bags here? I see si.
Bolsa replica Premium. And where do these come from? China How do you import from there?
We send from China, we have a box in Miami, from Miami it arrives here. Hay wey, I had not seen the watches. Sí, Cartier, Patek Philippe Omega.
Taut. Also from China or from where? Yes, all this is Chinese.
Another big business on the Paraguayan side is the change of tires, rubber, rims. Here it is cheaper and there is a local trick that if you come from another country to change your tires, they offer you the service of dirtying your car so that they don't look brand new. And when you cross the border again they don't want to charge you taxes.
They also burn the little hairs on the new tires to make them look used. If you are very crafty, but smart, you can save a lot of money. A very common problem that people who visit the border region often encounter is when it comes to having data on your phone, because when you cross a border it stops working, you are cut off.
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Well, we are leaving. Paraguay, back to Brazil. The way we are going to do it is by motorcycle cab.
This is a very efficient method, really, because you can cross the border quickly. How much do you charge us to cross the border? fifteen reales.
They are going to charge us fifteen reais, about two, three dollars. Come on, let's go back to Brazil wow the best three dollars I have spent in years. The motorcycle cab is the option to cross the border in less than four minutes.
No exaggeration. We are back in Brazil. We crossed an international border.
The line of cars was long but very long. Crossing it. The car would have taken hours, no exaggeration.
Hours and nothing. No, the motorcycle taxi driver was going back and forth between cars. There is a special bike lane again.
Nobody checks your passport. No, really. We went in, but as if we were in our own house, adrenaline pumping.
We saved a lot of time for three $. Wow! Excellent brutal experience.
So come now to explore the Brazilian side, the city of the work. If Leño is named after the background, Iguazu has a population of over three hundred,zero inhabitants and is undoubtedly the most touristy of the three. You notice it in its infrastructure, its streets, buildings, leisure centers, museums, etc, etc.
An interesting fact is that Brazil shares with Paraguay the Itaipu dam, which is the second largest hydroelectric dam in the world. They make so much electricity that Paraguay sustains eighty% of its energy in a completely renewable way, hydroelectric and the rest goes to Brazil and a little bit more to Argentina. The Brazilian side, of course, also has its Iguazu National Park, which is much more touristy than the Argentinean one, you notice it from the moment you arrive, there are lines so long that they look like roller coasters, music everywhere, souvenir stores, huge buses to welcome tourists.
I will say that it doesn't feel as natural and authentic as the Argentine side, but it is equally stunning and beautiful. One disturbing fact about Iguazu's natural reserves is that all we can see is only seven% of what used to be the jungle. Overexploitation by humans, as well as climate change, has caused vegetation and biodiversity to shrink, remarkably.
Now we are going to literally go into the waterfalls, we are going to get wet with some of the most natural waters that have touched us. This is going to be good. Let's go to the boat.
The experience of going under some of the waterfalls, feeling the water splashing directly on you, is quite nice. The not so positive thing I can say about the Brazilian is that since it is so touristy it is very easy to get overwhelmed. Very easy to get overwhelmed.
The boats are over forty people. You have to be dodging, dodging cameras, phones. Nevertheless, beautiful and indescribable.
Now, something very cool about the Brazilian is that you can get much closer to the Garganta del Diablo (Devil's Throat), which is the largest of all the two hundred and seventy falls. What a nice refreshment here with this tremendous sunshine! I totally understand why this site received the title of one of the seven natural wonders of our planet.
So, great adventure we had in the Iguazu region. I hope you liked it, that you found it interesting. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss the next videos.
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