Easiest way to get to Paraguay from Puerto Iguazu?

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It's entirely possible, cheap, and simple. Go to the main bus terminal in Puerto Iguazu. Get on a bus going to Ciudad del Este (it'll likely just say 'Paraguay'), and it travels across into Brazil to Foz Iguacu, and then across another bridge into Ciudad del Este.

You'll go through customs/border at Argentina/Brazil, and then...probably again going into Paraguay. Talk to the bus driver, at this point it gets a little sketchy, but...yeah, sometimes they just skip the border.

From my blog post on doing exactly this trip:

Let’s just say hypothetically there’s this bus, and there’s this hypothetical driver, who upon hearing that the only non-local on the bus only wants to go into the border town, can’t be bothered getting the tourist a stamp, drives on through the express customs lane for locals, and says he can just do the same on the way back after picking the tourist up again. Imagine that. Hypothetically of course. Hypothetically said tourist would hypothetically be in Paraguay without a visa and without a stamp, wandering around Ciudad del Este.

But yes, there is a bus, and it does take you via Ciudad del Este - and indeed it continues all the way to Asuncion if you really wanted to go that far. It's very easy, and all it really requires is you getting on the bus. But do make sure that you have a visa for Paraguay, and check whether you need one for Brazil as well.

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