Hotels in Asuncion - Prices and Reviews

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 o...

Get this! After I wrote our Bonito entry we decided to go out for dinner. We had just sat down when in walked Kathleen and Michael, 2 friends of mine from uni who I haven't seen in 4 years! How weird is that! We sat with them and had a couple of drinks and a good old catch up after dinner. They are also travelling the world. It was really good t...

We arrived in Asuncion when the rest of the family were at Iguazu Falls. Matt and I met Marcela and Atilio (Jeanette's parents), Vasti and Ariel (Jeanette's sister and brother) and Maria (Jeanette's grandmother). We played Ludo and were beaten convincingly and then Ever (a friend of Jeanette's) came and took us and Ariel for some dinner and a dr...

This morning I got up and met with our legal and financial counsel in Santa Cruz. She picked me up at the hotel, drove me around Santa Cruz and dropped me off in time to check out of the hotel, grab some lunch at Subway (yes, there is Subway in Bolivia...but no McDonald's) and head to the airport. The airport is an experience in and of itself. T...

Jungle Life, Day 2: We set off this morning on a 3-hour boat trip north deeper into the reserve, for overnight camping at a ranger station and more exploration. Who would´ve thought a one night camp for 2 people would involve so much staff coming along? We had our 2 cooks, our guide, the boat driver, the boat man at the front who keeps us from h...

Well, I went back. Yes I did. I absolutely will be getting involved with Operation Smile upon my return to the USA. I took a few pictures of a few of the kids, and I hope you get an idea of how special it all was...

had a quality weekend here in paraguay. met loadsa wicked people and had some strange experiences. saturday night we went to the britania bar again and spent the night talkin to the barmaid and her friend. they spoke a little bit of english and so i was brushing up on my spanish with them. we had a good crack then another of there friends came w...

I realized that it must have been a long time since I last sent out a group email when I started getting text messages from friends in the states saying "Hey buddy, the guys and I are ready to get another update from you." So these messeges got me to thinking "what can I write about this time?" After being here for just a bit over six months (al...

Greetings! This entry was prompted by my mom since she has been asking if I'm doing any "work" down here. I guess I've been making my experiences out to sound more like a vacation...which, I'll have to admit, at times my experiences are similar to a vacation since things are still foreign at times. However, these vacation-like times I put under ...

English Steve, one of the guys I traveled around Nicaragua, Panama and Colombia with for one month, called Asuncion for Gangsterville. I liked the name he came up with, so I decided to use it in the title of this blog entry. So I am here in the capital of Paraguay, and although I for some reason have difficulties making up my mind about the plac...