Hitchhiking from Cerro Cora National Park

As you can see it was a busy road and a long wait. With the late morning temperature rising, we were just about to resort to t-shirts on our heads again when a friendly driver picked us up.

Perusing Paraguay

July 9th 2007
The latest stage of our travels took us off the gringo trail into the less explored country of Paraguay. For some inexplicable reason backpackers don't seem to have a very high opinion of Paraguay as demonstrated the night before we left Brazil. We'd just returned from the Pantenal and were relaxing in Campo Grande with 2 others from our trip. Another traveller started chatting to us. We did the ... read more

South America » Paraguay » Encarnacion

In the disastrous War of the Triple Alliance (1865-70), Paraguay lost two-thirds of all adult males and much of its territory. It stagnated economically for the next half century. In the Chaco War of 1932-35, large, economically important areas were ... ... read more

Joined	January 23rd 2007	Trips	0
Last Login	August 18th 2008	Followers	0
Status	BLOGGER	Follows	0
Blogs	21	Guestbook	35
Photos	264	Forum Posts	2