Hotel Los Alpes Asuncion

... it is not as cold in the mornings as it was before, and it is more bearable. I've started working in the school garden to prepare my part. They have let me take a part of the garden to use as my own since I live at the school. Before I left, I was preparing it, and I hope to plant seeds soon when I get back to site.<br><br>My bike is broken. It is currently sitting at my house with two flat tires and brakes that don't work. Also, my bike pump is broken, and ...

ok so the internet here is super slow and i have to be leading a discussion group in 12 minutes!" i arrived on wednesday night, and now we´re in our second day of GYS. it´s crazy but in a good way. &lt;i´m meeting tons of people from all over. as delegates we´re shaing together and learning a lot from each other, from our differences and our similarities. i´m getting to speak every langauge i know -spanish, and german too, and i love it! there are 5 ...

On Thursday I had seen it all in Iguazu and I decided to go to Paraguay. There is not many backpackers or tourists in general going to Paraguay. There is nothing to see and it could be kind of dangerous. I just wanted to experience that myself. In the hostel in Foz the Iguazu there were to Dutch girls travelling to Asuncion as well, so we could do the trip together. First we had to cross the border to Cuidad del Este, which is only a few km ...

... sit around on the streets in garden furniture eying-up the women who simultaneously seem to despise it while making every effort to be noticed. A place where you know you should feel intimidated but instead you feel amused and warmed. Emily seem to attract the particular attention of one of these said men who spent the whole time either staring at her or sucking his teeth which we've come to recognise as being a method of Argentine seduction.<br><br><br><br>We should've expected ...

I gotta admit paraguay has really grown on me really fast, Im not sure why it has such a terrible rep, maybe coz not enough people dare to check it out to see the rep is not true. so it has sketchy areas and people but show me a country that doesn't, and i will buy you a beer in paraguay. Anyways in short Paraguay is super cheap, perhaps not as cheap as Bolivia... But Paraguayan food and beer doesn't send me running to the toilet 10 min later.... so heres some prices i ...

... so that shows how much our trouble the pound is in! We stayed in the area just around the bus station, there are quite a few cheap hotels, some of them we looked at were pretty dirty but we managed to find a decent enough one for about 8 quid, not bad, especially after paying much more in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Our first impressions of Paraguay and Asuncion were that it was noticeably more run down and poorer than Argentina, but in our first encounters ...

... or 3 PCVs... I was the first in Potrero Garay) The visit went really well and he has a lot of energy and motivation that I've lost. I'm a little burnt out, I realized. I decided to spend my last 3 weeks in site playing volleyball, dancing, drinking terere, and visiting people. Its been super fun :) I can't believe that the time has already come, though. I might be in denial about it until April ...

... headed back home. Joaquim and Sandra are extremely nice, and I feel extremely fortunate to have met them and them letting me stay with them. I think the next couple of days we might go visiting some nearby towns and maybe a waterfall on Sunday. Then I'll head to Ciudad del Este, Iguazu, and I might be able to head out to Brasil too! yayy PHOTOS

... etwas seltsam eingeschätzt haben. Auf jeden Fall hab ich ihm versprochen, ernsthaft darüber nachzudenken ... P.S.: Für den Fall, dass jemand Bilder vermisst: Es tut mir ja selber leid, aber es gibt da einige Übertragungsschwierigkeiten. Ich arbeite daran, aber ich fürchte, ich hab gar nicht die nötige Software. Und meine Informatikkentnisse sind ja nicht gerade legendär ... Sollte das Problem jemals behoben sein, werde ich nicht zögern, einige Bilder hochzuladen.

... the look I gave him passed on the message "dude, we want 2 single beds" pretty well. That was all yesterday. Today the streets were back to being as busy as you can expect in a capitol. All the police and even the traffic cops carry machine guns. Some lamps even have bullet holes going right through them. Strangly enough the place is really peaceful though. Everything here is extremly cheap, we had breakfast for about 50 eurocents. They all drink the Shemaruh drink the ...