Blogs from Paraguay, South America - page 39

South America » Paraguay August 24th 2005

After a day in Asuncion Ive discovered that the lonely planet researchers probably havent visited here for a couple of years. Almost everything in the "backpackers bible" is out of date!! the first hostels that we went to that are recommended are closed down, the restaurants dont exist and the travel information is all wrong!! Its the first time Lonely planet has failed me but were getting by ok! They did get one thing right though, the breakfast in the hotel were staying in is described as "unremarkable" and they certainly got that right! After the fabulous breakfasts in Brazil (brilliant coffee, fresh fruit juice, ham, cheese, rolls, cornbread and fresh fruit and nobody minds you making up a packed lunch) this breakfast is a little depressing. A teaspoon of yucky jam each (i think it ... read more

Down the Rio Paraguay

South America » Paraguay August 23rd 2005

Emma Jota

I made it, after only a slight palava, safe and sound to Asunction, the capital city of Paraguay. Although I am minus a Brazillian exit stamp for Brazil and an entry stamp for Paraguay, so I am ilegal but Ill cross that border when i come to it, literally! I arrived at the dodgy port on the Paraguan side of the Rio Paraguay an hour before the boat was due only to be told that the boat wasnt coming until 5am!! The tiny town (about 3 houses, one bar and one hostel) was super dodgy and I didnt fancy waiting on the dockside for 6 hours so I invested in a room at the only and very delapitated hostel. there was no baño, bedsheets that hadnt been changed for about 5 years and i could watch ... read more

illegal border crossing

South America » Paraguay July 26th 2005

Austin

breakfast in paraguay, lunch in brazil, dinner in argentina.... crossed illegally into paraguay...inadvertantly...yep, that´ll be the antartica again....decided that we needed our passports stamped for memories, so we went to the immigration booth, from the wrong side, after all we were already in....they was not pleased, left, left the country, returned, repeated the trick....in paraguay 3 times yesterday.... when we left for good we did it on the back of a moto taxi...the border crossing is a long two lane bridge, the bridge of friendship, ahhhh, but there was an altercation in the middle, which tuned into a riot, which turned into panic....stuck on the back of a madmans bike, dave somewhere in the crowd behind me, jammed with bikes, cars and fighting people, had to negoitate a scaled down version of monaco grand prix for ... read more

Lateinamerika - Woche 16 (Paraguay - Argentinien)

South America » Paraguay March 25th 2005

auf dem Weg nach Concepción

Otane

19.03.05 Gegen 07.30 Uhr genoss ich nochmals so richtig das tolle Fruehstueck. Danach bezahlte ich noch meine hohe Rechnung von all den Touren und dem Hostal, dann gings ans packen. Leo und Daniel brachten mich ans Busterminal. Ich haette wieder mal weinen koennen, schade, dass wir nicht mehr Tage zusammen verbrachten. Aber vielleicht gehe ich sie ja in Brasilia (Hauptstadt von Brasilien) besuchen... Nun ging die Fahrt los zur Grenze. In Jardim musste ich jedoch einen dreistuendigen Zwischenstopp einlegen, doch die Zeit verging recht schnell. Als ich an der Grenze ankam, wartete auch schon ein Taxi. Der Buschauffeur und sein Begleiter haben mir alles gesagt, um alles problemlos zu arrangieren wegen den Grenz-Formalitaeten. Der Taxifahrer brachte mich von einem Ort zum anderen, damit ich meine Passstempel kriegte, dann zum Terminal um meine Weiterreise abzuklaeren bis schlussendlich ... read more

Paraguay

South America » Paraguay February 18th 2005

The Tri-border

The Corn Flake Traveller

Paraguay - 8 Days (9th - 17th Feb) From Iguazu Falls I travelled through Paraguay to Bolivia, taking 8 days to absorb what I could from this little visited, dirty, poor country. I spent 2 days in Encarnacion, so that I could visit the Jesus and Trinidad Jesuit Ruins, preserved religious missions founded by the Jesuit missioners during the colonization of South America in the 17th century. Then I went to the capital, Asuncion to explore all the colonial architecture (the Palacio López was the most attractive thing) but it was your bog standard, nothing special city, so I enjoyed some corn flakes and waited for an American friend coming from Brazil On the way towards Bolivia we stopped at Filadelfia in the Chaco region, right in the heart of the Mennonite settlements. Mennonite settlers came ... read more

Brief history of Paraguay

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 ...more history

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