Trip and Arrival to Asunción

Panteón de la plaza de los Héroes. In memory of the soldiers dead on la Guerra de la Triple Allianza.
Paraguay fought against Brasil, Argentina and Uruguay, and lost 90% all of young males.
A flag is haul up and down every day.
It is said, that the unfaithfulness of the Paraguayans, is due to the fact of the need of population after the war...

We took a cab to cross the border, and then to the bus station.
Stamp out Brazil, stamp in Paraguay. (done by a little kid of about 10 years old)
Arrival to the mythical Ciudad del Este (of smuggling and gunrunning), and you see immediatly a huge change, in architecture, race, atmosphere... Very interesting!
4h30min to Asunción, if you don´t count the stops to pick up people who sell newspapers, sunglasses, chipa (traditional bread with a bit of taste of anisette)... but not with the purpose of tourist selling, (as there are not many...), and because you find it in every bus you take in Asunción...

At our arrival to the station, we called our shelter family who told us they were working outside the city, and would meet the following day.
We then went to the hotel La Española (of course) to spend our first night.
We had read on the newspapers there was a free jazz concert on the Brazil embassy.
Let´s go then!
At the way out, we stopped a guy to ask for a nice bar to have a beer.
Not only he brought us to the nice bar, but introduced us his friends and partied the whole night.
Viva Sebastián!!