We had an absolute ball together, Maria was a great travel companion and so tranquilia that I had to force her to make a few decisions. She understands loads of Spanish, so I didn’t have to do much translating at all! When she first arrived, we headed east to Ciudad del Este and then crossed the boarders (through Brazil) and into Argentina. We stayed in Puerto Iguazu (Port of big water!). The main goal of visiting AR was to see the falls, known for being the most amazing in the world! This was my second time visiting, and they were still shockingly phenomenal! If you have a list of amazing things to see before you die, you should add Iguazu Falls! However, if you have a list, we decided you should throw it away and go meet people! We stayed in a really cute hostel called Timbo Posada that had a great art store next-door, where Maria found a spectacular pair of sandals! (visit their website: http://www.timboiguazu.com.ar/timbo_arte_english.htm) For an extra “rest” day, on New Years Day we visited sitio de las tres fronteras (Three boarders). The Rio Alto Parana and Rio Iguazu run together to form the Rio Parana – is the connection point for Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Each has staked out their territory with an extra large post/pyramid painted with their country’s flag colors. (Paraguay’s looks more like super huge piece of PVC piping) We made a point to eat ice cream as often as possible and I felt like I was on a mini-vacation too!
After our time in Argentina, we came back to Paraguay (without any boarder crossing troubles). We were able to get a direct bus back to Horqueta, it turned out to be not exactly direct. Because, it was the only direct bus north to Concepcion, everyone, their mother and their 5 children were on our bus. So the bus that was built to hold a maximum of about 60 people, probably at one point had close to 90+. We did make back to my house in a total of 14 from the time we left the hotel until we arrived at hotel watermelon. We spent the next four days seeing horqueta and meeting some of my people! We were able to make chipa, butterflies with my “girl scout troop”, work bees and talk on the radio! We were also to take a trip down the Ypane River! It was like a 6-hour vacation from my world! We floated down in tubes (with a cooler of cold beer and great food close by!) It was Amazing!
The only down fall of our entire trip, was an unsuccessful adventure to find leather bags for Maria to take home as her Recuerdo de Paraguay. But I think its safe to say that, on both of our parts, we had a wonderful time together!
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