Gallery

Photo gallery for this site.

The grand overview of the smaller falls.

Useless trivia fact #347: the floor numbers in the Itaipu dam are not in consecutive order — instead, the number of each floor indicates its height above sea level.

Don’t know what all these pipes are for, but they look very important.

The highlight of the trip: going right down to the bottom level, and seeing one of the turbines spinning. Check out the video.

Big red sign telling visitors to go THIS WAY. Hmmm… I wonder what happens if you don’t do what big bad Itaipu Corporation tells you to do, and you go THAT WAY instead? I didn’t dare to find out :P.

Mission control room.

The big round floor covers for each of the 20 turbines in the station.

It’s a looong way down, to the bottom of the inner dam wall.

One of the guys in our group, standing next to a pipe.

Lake Itaipu.