After our experience in the capital our next port of call had a lot of work to do to try and win back my confidence in Paraguay. Cuidad del Est sits on the border with Brazil which when crossed is only 18km from the border with Argentina and the town of Puerto Iguazu, home of the famous Iguazu Falls. We decided to break our trip to the falls with a stay in Cuidad del Est. Some 20km out of the centre of the town is the Itiapu Hydroelectric Dam. The sad civil engin...

There is not much that you can say about Asuncion. We arrived on Sunday morrning to find the place deserted. No shops were open and the only sign of life either past or present was a perfectly decapitated pigeons head on the steps to the capital cities main plaza. We retired to our room to see what the next day would bring. Sadly the next day did not exactly bring much more excitement as the only real attraction that the city had to offer was cordened off by riot...