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South America » Paraguay » Amambay » Pedro Juan Caballero December 1st 2013

Geo: -22.5472, -55.7333...What's the Elevator Pitch once again?...Yep...It's a friendly border town where brazilian druglords greed each other...Oops...how did I end up in such a craphole?...Hmmh...let's see...weel there was a bus from Campo Grande leaving to...just forget the excuses...Besides druglords...It's loaded with those lost Chinese souls who run their business side by side copying each other and competing for whom...The customer...but..yes, Brazilians do their shopping runs from Sao Paulo and other rich cities to buy up the newest rubish chink technology, it comes with the usual guarantee of being the lowest quality any technical item could probably be...Hopefully the toaster you just bought will last for the first few slices of bread...I was hanging around a few days simply inhaling the crappy experience...Well, to be honest, I was rather forced too. Upon... read more
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South America » Paraguay » Amambay » Pedro Juan Caballero April 16th 2011

The following day we should have walked to the bus terminal from the hotel, as it would have been far quicker than taking the taxi we took. To be fair to the driver, he had to drive super slowmo as the roads are in such a horrendous condition that the taxis try to take the paved roads…of which there are only 2! But we made it just in time, grabbed some disappointing chipas from a hawker (they had sounded like the Paraguayan equivalent of Lisa’s much loved pan de yucca in Ecuador – they didn’t even come close) and got chatting to some friendly sellers asking us where we were from and why we were there – a tourist hub Concepcion ain’t. The bus was ok and we were sat next to a couple of nuns ... read more
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South America » Paraguay » Amambay » Cerro Corá March 3rd 2011

Last weekend we went on a group trip to Cerro Corá and Pedro Juan Caballero. Paraguay is a beautiful country it is just a shame not many people come to visit. Hopefully some of the photos will change your mind! Now onto things I've learnt. There is something worse than a dead rat...the three-day old dead rat on my road I can go to Brazil without a passport...just cross the road in Pedro Juan Caballero and you are in Ponte Porã! Paraguayans love a glorious defeat...the only reason why they have a bank holiday to commemorate the death of their former president which was followed by their surrender in the War of the Triple Alliance Tombstones have gone up recently...Mariscal Lopez (see above) just got a new one at 1.3 million dollars! Petrol stations have bars...which ... read more
Cerro Muralla viewpoint
Cerro Corá National Park
New Tombstone




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