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Has anyone gone over to Ciudad del Este for electronics shopping? Crossing for the day just do shopping, would I need a visa or just a passport (USA)?

Hi Larry:

As a local form Argentina I notice you: Don't buy electronics in Paraguay. Most of them are production wich don't pass the QC in factories, or just bad copies.

Also you are in risk of buy something, they pack it for you, and when you leave the country you discover they packed a nice brick for you.

If you want to buy cheap stuff, go to free shops, not to Paraguay.

The poster above is correct. And these products are only "cheap" for, say, Brazilians, who pay 5X more for electronics in country because of tazes.

Thanks for the responses. Looks like I´ll pass on the shopping.

That was a funny but probably often true too many times comment, ¨packed a nice brick for you¨.

Good call on passing on the shopping. I was at Iguazu last summer and remember hearing of all these "GREAT SHOPPING" excursions over to Paraguay. When you're already in a "touristy" kind of place, and hear of excursions TO a "touristy" kind of place, that's my red flag. It just "smelled" too good to be true. If I had any extra time down there, or could be flexible with a day or two, I'd certainly spend it at or around the falls--not in some electronics dept. Iguazu Falls vs. Electronics dept.--to me, the choice is a no-brainer.

Just a second thought--if you DO have a day or two to flex your Iguazu trip with (and by the shopping query it sounds like you do), then I'd suggest checking on dates for the "full moon walks" going on around your visit there....it's a really, really cool way to see the falls, by full moon at night, offered by the park staff.

Any hostel or hotel concierge can point you to it, or the nat'l park office there can as well. For dates, any number of ways on the net to figure out when the full moon is at Puerto Iguazu/Foz De Iguassu.