Tagged: Encarnación

Encarnación to Villarrica: The Hell Bus and Being Hookers

Encarnación to Villarrica: The Hell Bus and Being Hookers

Encarnación to Villarrica: The Hell Bus and Being Hookers. March 25. We were up at 7:30am to catch a bus to Villarrica.  It was a seven hour ride on the oldest roughest bus in all of Paraguay.  We were off the asphalt for most of the journey, driving down a red dirt road of washouts, dust, semi trucks hauling cattle liners, ruts, buses and people standing on the side of the road everywhere to flag down the bus.  It was...

An Encarnación Celebration

An Encarnación Celebration

An Encarnación Celebration. March 24. Encarnación is a town that sells cups and bottles made out of a cows hoof.  Really.  I have never seen something like this before.  The cup base it the hoof of the cow, and the drinking apparatus on the top is made out of a hollowed out horn.  They are gorgeous and stylish for drinking terere.  The woman who made them, with two thumbs on her one right hand, had also artistically crafted champagne or a...

Ciudad del Este to Encarnación

Ciudad del Este to Encarnación

March 23 Ciudad del Este to Encarnación. Ciudad del Este is not a necessary place to spend time, unless you want to hang out at a really cool hostel, which the Casa Alta is, and really nice people work there.  But, we decided to get out of the second largest city in Paraguay to head to Encarnación.  We went to the bus station and the man behind the counter tried to skin tax us an extra 10%, but Irmante caught it...