Planet right next to the bus station. Great we thought, this should be dead easy then!! Only trouble was, the bus didn’t go to the bus station, and when we were the last people left on and were wondering where we were, the driver said something in Spanish and we showed him the address of where we wanted to go. It was obvious that we’d missed it and were at the end of the bus route, so he motioned for us to stay on and after a five minute wait we were on our way back into the city but this time he told us where to get off and which way to go!!!

Once we’d been pointed in the right direction we found the place quite easily - good job really as the rains came again just after we’d got there! The hotel was run by a German lady and was quite pleasant, and very cheap!! We went to get money and have a look around the city. Actually city is a little misleading, it’s more of a shabby town filled

with lots of tacky shops. Paraguay is tax free, so all these shops cater to Argentineans crossing the border looking for cheap electrical goods. When we’d read this we were hoping that we might find a replacement for Hel’s Ipod, but when it says cheap electrical goods, it means cheap and nasty, so no luck on that score!! We managed to get some pretty decent lunch though, and sampled a few decent bars later on. It’s quite sad that the apparently once pleasant riverfront is disappearing due to an ill managed hydroelectric dam upstream which is literally flooding the lower parts of the city, so everything is moving up away from the river!!

We’d booked into the hotel for two nights and were up early in the morning to go to the Jesuit ruins at Trinidad for the day. We weren’t really sure when and where to get the bus and were looking a little confused when we got talking to a couple of