Zaphir Hotel Asuncion

After breakfast at Ray and Cindy's we started the day at "Hogar Albino Luis" an orphanage here in Asuncion. It is a safe-haven for children that have been abandoned on the streets of Paraguay. Most children there were born with physical or mental disabilities and the parents just discarded them instead of dealing with their needs. Our goal was to pray with them and show them love by touching and ...

After heavy rains our exit from the campsite was less than dignified, taking as it did a tractor, a trailer and a 4x4 to pull us out of the muck. To provide more weight, we were herded like cattle into the trailer and were jolted around like something out of a ride you'd pay for in universal studios theme park. An hour or so later we pulled up to these Jesuit ruins where only a third of us were brave enough to dismount jack into the still v inclement weather conditions ...

... some people in my house in Madrid a few times, in oder to build up a reputation within the community, which is importnat if you are looking for a place to stay yourselve. It is a great way to get to know new people. I got accepted by Shirley, a 36 year old Paraguayan English teacher. I rang her when I arrived at the bus station in Asuncion. She told me to take a bus to a certain street. It was getting dark and I was in this poor city with ...

... I turned back to Emily and we agreed to see if we could find an earlier bus at the other bus company's office. This was met with the news that no bus was running until Monday, this was then confirmed in the flecther bus office by the same enthused young man who told it left at three. This left us with quite a problem... Luckily for us, in the bus stop, we were approached by two german brothers who had found themselves in a similar predicament although having asked ...

intriguing paraguay So more or less i was sitting in retiro (main bus station of Buenos aires) when i kept seein buses going to Asunción, then i kept seeing it everywhere, so i decide hmmmm i got time and no one really talks about Paraguay lets go check it out. So after a 18 hour bus ride and a 4:30am boarder crossing here i am Shocked with the real paraguay. Upon first arrival asuncion felt like a typical latin america ...

... were hungry (wasnt long) then went to this crowded barbecue restaurant, where we had some costilla (ribs) mmm they were delicious, the food was great. The town felt so quiet and rural, really peaceful and we picked up some grapes from a couple selling them by the roadside, apart from this, there really is not much to do in Asuncion, though coming from Buenos Aires, it feels like you have crossed a cultural barrier, and arrived some much more quintessiantelly South American.

... that you look at it and if you were thinking "what should I buy carin for christmas?" Don't buy me anything... save the $20 in presents and donate money to this instead. You'll actually save money donating because you won't have to pay $20-$30 in shipping! Or maybe you just have $5 laying around that you were going to buy a beer with... Educate girls instead! And if you need more convincing... Did ...

I arrived from Asuncion by bus around 2pm today. I kind of ****** around for a bit, waiting for Klaus (my CS host here), and then called him, and it turned out he was already in the terminal (I was early) so I met up with him and his wife, as well as a couple they´re also ...

Mein dritter Tag in Paraguay hat begonnen ... Die Eingewöhnungsphase ist definitiv noch nicht abgeschlossen. Das liegt in erster Linie an der Tatsache, dass ich immer noch viel zu wenig von dem verstehe, was mir an den Kopf geworfen wird. Ich glaube nicht, dass sich das in den nächsten sechs Wochen dramatisch ändern wird, und gewöhne mich deshalb langsam an einen unauffälligen, ruhigen Part - was mir zugegebenermassen schwer f ...

... one of the stops to buy a couple of tasty beef (or at least we hoped it was beef!) kebabs.So now we are in Asuncion, the capital. Here, as with everywhere else in Paraguay, it just seems like nobody ever has anything to do. So many people are just sitting around, in the middle of a week day. Everyone drinks this kind of herbal tea that they make in special cups - the cups are full of some kind of leaves ...