The day says goodbye to Brazil on two very different notes — a visit to the country's largest mosque, then a walk along its most famous waterfall system — before crossing into Argentina on the bridge that finally ended a century of ferry crossings between the two countries.
Morning at the Mosque
The day begins at the Mesquita Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, raised in the early 1980s by fifty families of the local Muslim community, many of them Lebanese immigrants who'd arrived in Foz do Iguaçu to work on the Itaipu dam and found no place nearby to pray. Finished in 1983 after eighteen months of work, it's the largest mosque in Brazil and the second-largest in Latin America, behind only the King Fahd center in Buenos Aires — its octagonal prayer hall, roofed by what was at the time the largest free-span concrete dome in the region, holds several hundred worshippers beneath walls dense with arabesque detail.