Hotel Portal Del Sol Asuncion

... station, next to the Cathedral, we found a good parking spot and so then set off on foot to go round the main sights. These consisted of the House of Senate in an 18th Century building, the Congress Hall, a brand new building, the Palace of the Governors, another old building. That covered the political bits, but opposite were 8 old house that had been restored, one of which was the oldest in the town and is used as a town museum. Next along was the ...

... also bought my bus tricket to Ciudad del Este, 70 guaranies using NSA bus company, mine left at 1:30 am and took 5 hours to reach the destination, so, I reached CDE at 6:30 in the morning, i Think I lost my 26 dolars because i only slept a few hours in that Plaza Hotel. But it is ok, at least i had a bed. The bus was good, but the movie inside was from the 80's, and the volume was so low, I am glad i brought my SE ohone with music.

... changes regularly, and that he thinks that the train leaves half an hour earlier. Suddenly time is getting quite short, not enough time to go by bus, we jump in a cab, the driver tells us that it's on the other side of town and we need 40 minutes to get there. And we only have 20... The taxi's going like crazy, at the red lights stopping is optional, we go back and forth between cars, trucks, motorcycles and ox carts, and finally we get there right on time! And there, no train. Tough ...

... avec eux. Et non merci, je n'ai besoin ni de lunettes de soleil en plastique, ni d'une montre Roleks.<br><br>En venant de l'Argentine ou du Brésil, le Paraguay est une sacrée chute en termes de développement. La vie au Paraguay coûte plus cher qu'en Bolivie, mais au niveau de l'indice de développement c'est du même calibre... Heureusement mes réflexes du Pérou et de la Bolivie sont revenus en quatrième vitesse, et j'ai vite retrouvé mes repères. Ça a été un sacré bordel ...

This weekend I will be going out to a site to spend 4 days with a volunteer! I am very excited. We got our assignments yesterday, and I will going a site near Independencia in Guaira department, about a 4-5 hour bus ride from Asuncion. I leave Saturday and will be back Tuesday. Everyone is excited to finally be able to leave and get out on our own. Training is incredibly restrictive with little free time. Lots has happened in the last week, and I can't ...

... husband, and the youngest brother, 25, lives with us as well. At least from the best as I can tell even though he sleeps in another house. There are 3 other trainees all in the same area in neighboring houses. All of our families are related, so there are people and kids playing and going back and forth, and I´m still unclear how everyone is related and who lives where, though I have only been there one night. Since it is a rural area, we have lots of ...

... before it's getting better, then I'll have to hurry. I get a front row seat on a double-decker bus and head off into the Argentine night. Any thought of missing the scenery is probably misplaced. Argentina rolls under the bus like Nebraska and her mother-in-law, just going on and on about nothing, vast plains dotted with towns and cows. It's big and it's beautiful, but in that subtle American way, vast and brooding. It resembles both the US and ...

... a really pretty old church, according to Joaquim the oldest in Paraguay, and after the waterfalls we had a really nice dinner. I had cordon bleu with french fries and coke (super yum). We then headed home. I just uploaded the pictures to my facebook and here they are... PHOTOS Tomorrow I'm off to Ciudad del Este, near Iguazu Falls.

... Paraguayan harp music aired on August 15 in conjunction with the inauguration of our new president Fernando Lugo. Who by the way just said that he will not take the salary given to the president and instead it will be given to a foundation to distribute as they see fit. One of my nieghbors(paraguayan) said that this is the first time that he has ever heard of a Paraguayan not accepting money and that surely he will be ...

... Truthfully, there isn´t much to see in Asuncion. I tried their famous Sopa Paraguay (Paraguay Soup). Ironically, it´s not soup but more of a baked bread. There´s a whole story about its origin, something about putting too much flower and leaving it to bake in an oven. I found it to be a cruel joke on us unassuming tourists. I really wanted the soup that day.