Paraguay

This is where I was born and grew up! Amazing memories of living in a small village secluded from the world. No computers, cell phones or technology.

I went to visit a friend who was volunteering outside of Asuncion. It was definitely a great experience and made me thankful for everything that I have back here in the states. I’ll be back for some mate and chipa, though!

On a trip to La Colmena in the Paraguari department, I found awesome landscapes with colourful scenes of urban life such as sugar cane plantations (quite important nowadays for etanol and alternatives to petrol), rainforest and waterfalls!

In these area of Paraguay, it is located the famous Salto Cristal waterfalls (70 mts high). You need to do a bit of a hike to reach them because it is just in the middle of a rainforest. The trip it is worthwhile though as the views are awesome and if it is hot enough you can even swim.

i went there on sunday, what was a bad idea because me and my cousins were supposed to go shopping there and we arrived there like too late. we didn’t know that the commerce closes so early.
and then, when we got at that shopping china, it was like that supermarket-thing. “you got 30 seconds to get everything you can and direct yourself to check-out counter”.
although, it was a different experience for me that haven’t traveled “abroad” for a long time and i had time to buy a digital camera, a perfume and a coke zero that i was so anxious to try cause’ i can’t find here in brazil yet.
things are so cheap in paraguay. i wanna go there again (and this time, not on sunday)!

Reminiscant of Romania after the revolution, except much much hotter.