At the edge of our river!!

Getting walked down the river!

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October 15th 2007
Aloha! Have got a couple of weeks to write about woopsie! Last weekend, well the weekend before that, oh i dunno, we went to visit Villa Hayes, where two other volunteers, Hugh and Emily, live and work. It´s a small village (or so we were told) about an hour or so away from the city, and it´s on the edge of the Chaco, which is an enormous area of land taking up almost half of Paraguay. How ... read more

South America » Paraguay

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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