Manduvira Hotel Asuncion

... How can we work with others globally if we aren´t working with our neighbour? I realize that our countries are working together, but we as delegates don´t know how, as we don´t necessarily see it. THese are just some thoughts from some of the discussions we´ve been having. I hope I´ll have been able to process everything I´ve talked about more by the time I get home and have opportunities to share with people! Blessings, Kristina

... du Paraguay! Par manque de temps nous ne sommes pas restés longtemps et nous avons quitté Asunción après seulement deux nuits, mais le lit était super inconfortable et il y avait des cafards géants et des moustiques aggressifs dans la chambre, alors c'était la meilleure chose à faire. :)

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Leaving Puerto Iguazu, two border crossings later and I was in Paraguay. The buses not waiting for passengers at border crossings (up to us to take the next one ...

Iedereen krijgt een tweede kans om een eerste indruk te maken, en Paraguay greep deze met beide handen aan. Paraguay is niet de chaos van een Indicase stad (nou ja, Ciudad del Este misschien wel), maar een prachtig groen land, met merkwaardige extreem hoge rotspartijen, veel open velden en langs de wegen afwisselend stenen en houten huisjes, waarin de mensen hun eenvoudige landelijke leven leiden. Geheel anders is Asuncion, de hoofdstad. Het is een stad van enorme tegenstrijdigheden ...

... Paraguay hides nervously behind the muscle and braun of it's relatively herculian neighbours. In spite this, I was convinced there must have been a major oversight and had set Asuncion high on my list of places to visit before I had even left England. But I'll be the first to admit I didn't think it would be my first venture into independant travel. ACT 1 - A DECISION IS MADE... The Sunday before last Emily had suggested we make time to see Salta and perhaps ...

... on. He is actually a soccer coach for a local team and that it is all he wants to talk about - the difference between European and Latin American players, what soccer teaches about life, how another trainee who stayed there loved to play soccer, etc. He's going to be disappointed once he sees me out there. The weather has been hot with lots of sun interrupted by awful, awful rain. This morning's rain was so ...

Recently we have had some very long drive days, playing cards and sleeping. Charlie has been nicknamed a nodding dog, due to her lack of neck muscles when asleep on the truck! After La Paz we drove to Potosi, a mining town and travelled a day to Uyuni, nothing to see there just a transport town, but the hotel restauraunt claim to sell the best pizzas at altitude, Jim felt he should try one and successfully demolished an extra large pizza! the following day we ...

... Villa" (our little neighborhood), then a short camp with all the kids from town (we had a big water fight), and finally a big barbeque and dance for the whole town. In preparation for the barbeque we spent the whole day butchering, processing, and consuming pig products. For breakfast there was tripe, followed by pork rinds (the residue from boiling fat to produce lard) for snack, then blood sausage and boiled pig head for lunch. I'm not ...

... a change in the weather. In the evening it started to rain, and just before the bus pulled up to the gate in Antequera it started pouring really hard, so here we are running for the bus in the pouring rain, and then once we were on the bus, the rain almost stoped. It was a nice bus comfortable and not to cold, about 4:30 in the morning a lady came on the bus with warm Chipa (I don´t know if you ever had it while you were here it is a type ...

... ist mir das Getränk sympathisch, denn alle, wirklich alle lässigen Typen hier haben einen Guapa umhängen. Allerdings sind das glaub ich auch genau die Typen, die das Produktivitätslevel so unterirdisch niedrig halten. Man kann eben nicht alles haben. Im Moment würde ich aber offen gesagt lieber zu der Téréré-Hanger-Fraktion gehören. Die Temperatur hier wird nämlich langsam unangenehm. Während ich in den ersten Tagen noch mit Pulli schlafen musste ...

... s beverage probably cost me a good few years of an already short life expectancy... The walk back was otherwise unremarkable. The poverty is evident down nearly every road I walked past, and if you do fancy re-creating my travel day for any reason then walk around the dodgiest area in your local town (only after digging the roads up and blowing up the houses), insist that everyone speaks in a language you can´t understand and breathe in fumes from an exhaust pipe every 20 yards or so ...