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Unknown Asuncion *
... br> every bus terminal I ever was in Paraguay, I remained the only foreigner
or tourist. And I cherished and loved that.
From
the grey, dreary bus station on a ...
Apple crumble surprise
... After passing what we thought was a massive squatter camp in the main square of downtown, we found our hostel two blocks away.
We're greeted by a a lovely woman who speaks English and are given a map of the city that has the top half blacked out and 'DON'T GO HERE' written on it...ok... fair enough...turns out the people who we saw are not squatting, they are protesting for better health care and benefits for the ...
Brazil - there and back again
... hot milk) and a bowl of soup (and getting some small cake/bread-type loaf), then proceeding to summon the restaurant manager to our table while he virtually stuck his fingers in someone's vegetables and shouted "Look, in corner of el plate, vegetables, give, now". So much for international relations.
The next day, we had a 10am public bus from Asuncion to Foz do Iguazu in Brazil, which should have taken about 5-6 hours but more on that next ...
100km in Paraguay
... to locate. We wandered through some dead-end streets before we decided not to rack up too many more excess-kilometre charges. The main road was okay but covered by lots of fine, red sand. At one point, a detour took us from paved to a very rutted sandy road – really more of a trail – where at least one car was already stuck. We made it through but apparently damaged our hubcap. A couple of different people pointed it out, which was very helpful.
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A City of Such Contrasts
... to ask, I accepted defeat with much grumbling :-) Some history just for fun - Construction began in late 1860 to be the residence of Francisco Solano Lopez. Since 1994 it has housed the Government.
We had been told that we could take a boat ride across the river to get an alternate city view. We went down to the beach to see what it was all about. Well, "beach" is far too complimentary a word for the messy area leading down to the river where there was a sad ...


