Yuty to Encarnacion Photo Gallery

A couple of weeks back I was in Yuty and one day I got to travel south to Incarnation, and as I'm editing the film I took in Yuty I thought I'd post a lot of sights I saw along the road between Yuty and Encarnacion.

Raphella's perfume smells like 'Booz'.  Not so appealing for those with UK English.

I promised my FM friend Paul that if I saw parrots in Paraguay I'd take some pictures of them for him.  Unfortunately they aren't all that exciting.

In a jungle hotel in Encarnacion there's a large tree with a shrine to Mary. :(

Paraguayan baby wanting terere.

A huge toad getting prodded into life by Dan.

Old map of the region in a Jesuit museum on the road.

Looks like he has been speared, but is carrying a huge pole for use with a barge.

Jesuit ruins.

Small fry dog. 

One of the oversize lakes created by damming.  Nearby there is a house 90% submerged.

A typical roadside stall.

A major road constructed around the perimeter of a new lake.  There were 2 cars in the 15 minutes we were there.

The sad remains of the torn-up Paraguayan railway system.  The country is much less tourist-friendly because of it.

A pup separated from its litter.

A good place to plant a bush. 

It's not uncommon for cows to roam freely in the streets, although the local fuzz sometimes escort the rogue bovine to fuzz station and farmers pay fine much like parking tickets.

A dead tree pretending to be a pylon.

One of the towns used to be named after a chief from ages past called Bobi.

The other end of the town had a different chief.

A place that looks like a coffee shop only won't sell coffee so I don't know what you call them.  Well, besides 'cafe'.

Wide Load!  Besides transporting 5ft strimmers, the most popular dangerous article to carry on a motorbike in this country is the 15kg gas canister.

A road cutting across one of the now flooded regions in the south of Paraguay.  It's quite serene.

Nice flowering bush.

A frog living in the bathroom.

Frog caught by a kid.

Frog prepared to be transported outside.

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Fairgrounds, Fern Wells, and Lagoons

Here are some pictures from as far afield as San Francisco, Yuty, Villarrica, and Asuncion of interesting sights I've seen recently starting with the fairground that appeared one day in San Francisco in time for the Houghs arriving there.  As I was only dropping by on the way further south I didn't see it lit up at night, which is a regret, but seeing a cow strolling through the rides was good enough.  I hope you like the pictures. ^_^

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Mission Trip Photos (Habitat for Humanity)

These are pictures from the recent one-day mission trip with Habitat for Humanity.  Well, rather they are pictures taken from video clips.

This picture is of one of the kids whose family we were helping build their new house.  She was an expert at climbing trees.

This is at the 2nd location.  As videographer I got to go to 3 house-build locations unlike everybody else who had to stick with just one.

Some of the ACA students hard at work in the mid-day heat.

They had to sand and chisel the cement, then wash it with some chemical or other.

Heading to location one through the woods on the back of a 4x4!

A sander.

This is one of the huts we were replacing.

Climbers.

Peter and fiancee, teachers at ACA.

One of the kids goofing around.

They moved their beds under cooling trees for siesta time.

A lot of hacking was required.

Teacher Courtney at the moment she was hit by some foliage.

The cute kids.

The girl who set out her little chair and watched proceedings for quite a while.

One of the electricity poles/trees I mentioned in an earlier post!

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