Week 7

The day we leave for Paraguay, the heavens opened. We got drench getting to the bus for the boarder. We finally get to immigration get our passports stamped then, what? Where do we get the bus from? With no clear bus stop we decide to walk over the bridge in the rain. It was a long way down and the bridge had no real fencing for my liking!

We get across no problems, get stamped into Paraguay and into Cuidad del Este, this place was a chaos, it is a shopping centre for Brazilians, tax free goods at less than half the price! We on the other hand were having non of this in the rain "TAXI", straight to the bus station and out of town to Asuncion the capital.

The bus was busy with people standing in the isles, 6 hours of playing Sardines we find ourselves in Asuncion. One bus to the hostel and we are there, but no one answered the bell? suddenly a women comes from down the road saying she will phone the woman for us? 10 mins later a woman arrives to let us into the "hostel", no reception or anyone watching over the place it felt like a shabby flat, not a hostel. We pay and she leaves, we then find out the internet doesn't work, it has no fridge, we try and use the phone to contact the woman but it also doesn't work!

We dealt with it and over the following few days we explored Asuncion in 42 degress of heat! Seeing the city centre and a local town known for its ceramics, so good we didn't take one picture! We ate local food, one type which was like a scotch egg but made solely with chicken was nice.

After two days of heat we were defeated, and south we went to Encarnacion, the boarder town with Argentina.

Arriving in Encarnacion we found a hotel to stay, sorted ourselves out then came to leave to find the heavens opening! and it rained! Unable to leave the hotel we sat in the lobby using the free WiFi to plan are next move.  The following day we headed to some Jesuit renions outside of Encarnacion in a small village called Trinidad. We were the only ones there and explored the large grounds of this missionary site, which gave us chance to really take in the whole environment. It was an impressive place.

Later that day we went back to the hotel to collect our bags and off we went to Argentina and the town of Posadas.

We spent our time in Posadas relaxing in the main square and going to two Galleries containing what can only be describe as BA level paintings and thats being nice! The town was lovely and we really got a sense of wealth from the place.

Two nights then, south we head Rosario the next port of call!