Finally, after two weeks of failed plans, Jose and I went camping. We went to Ybicui (or Ybycui) National Park, about 3 hours by car, outside Asunción, if your car survives the amazing obstacle course of random cows in the road, horses and carts trotting along the wrong side of the motorway, moon-crator-sized pot holes and extremely precarious, make-shift, wooden bridges... Such a fun journey! No, seriously, it was a great journey. The scenery is so beautiful on along the road. There are huge expanses of untouched fields and marshland amongst tall hills covered in lush, green vegetation and palm trees. Every now and then there is a small village of maybe fifty or one hundred people living in tiny, but really pretty, little houses. It made me wonder about the life of these people, what
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