Asuncion - rough diamond (continued, part 2) Behind the building of the Congress is the Presidential Palace. Unfortunately, access to visitors to it is closed. Right behind him is a wonderful park on the banks of the river, which houses the president's helicopter pad. At the shore, I saw a small gunboat, which is part of the naval forces of Paraguay. Despite the fact that landlocked Paraguay is not (this is one of the two countries in the Western Hemisphere without access to the sea (the second - Bolivia, ca. Ed.)), A small naval fleet in the country still exists. At the third major area of ??capital, the Plaza Uruguayya, is the former station building, which today is the railway museum. The country has almost no railways, and the only sign of their existence can be regarded as an old steam locomotive, from time to time goes to the lake, located in a suburb of Asuncion. The Railway Museum was quite interesting, but since all the railways in the country built the British, a large part of the exhibition are artifacts that can be easily seen in any of the British Museum of this kind. National Museum of Art looks very very undignified - a small little room over the National Archives - nothing interesting is not there, but at least admission is free. Having gone 20 minutes walk from the center, I got on the "fourth market", which was just huge, who held several adjacent streets. It traded as terribly cheap fake clothes and watches of world brands, as well as ordinary household goods and food products. In Asuncion, everything seems very cheap. A bunch of two dozen bananas I bought for 25 pence. It was a pleasant surprise that it was a bit cheaper than it was written in my guidebook. It was especially nice after Argentina was much more expensive country than I expected. Independence Square At first I did not even realize what kind of food can be regarded as the Paraguayan. In Asuncion, a lot of small fast-food restaurants (mostly network Paraguayan restaurants that sell chicken, but there's a few restaurants of international chains such as Burger King and Pizza Hut). But Paraguay is clearly one of the least globalized countries in South America. This is particularly evident after a visit to Argentina. One of the snacks, they eat almost everything - a little bread with the taste of cheese, which are called "chips". Sufficiently good. Every time I sat on the bus, the cabin appeared necessarily someone with a basket of freshly baked hot chips for sale. Another local delicacy is "Sopa paraguayya" (Paraguayan soup), although the title is clearly misleading. In fact, this spicy cake made of corn flour and cheese. I tried, I did not like. Perhaps this taste needs getting used to. Sopa paraguayya Traffic and debris - some of the most serious problems of Asuncion. Rubbish lying around everywhere. This city reminded me a lot Lima (the capital of Peru, ca. Ed.). Subway in town, so the buses are still the main mode of public transport. However, most buses are already quite old and heavily pollute the air. On the other hand, a trip on them is inexpensive. As well as in Lima, here flourishing trade on the move. In the interior bus always included some people who are trying to sell something to passengers. In addition to the hot chip, during a trip to buy chocolate, newspapers, orange juice, batteries, toothbrushes, toilet paper, but most of all - socks. It is unclear why, but the city just flooded the sellers of socks. Probably in excess of the country of socks, I think so. All of these socks look some small and were of poor quality, but during my last visit to the laundry I have all disappeared, and there were only three instances of socks, so I had to use the services of the ubiquitous vendors. Cabildo - the former government building Stray animals have become more recently another problem of the city. They are here very much, and most of them look very bad. Due to the large number of stray dogs and a busy road traffic accident happens a lot. I personally witnessed several of them. Once I was riding a bus and a truck that was in front, knocked down a cow. Cattle are generally goes where he pleases. Or maybe just that day the cow made a mass escape from the farm. On the streets a lot of rubbish (a bit less than it in the historical center, but in the poorer suburbs - a huge pile), it is to them and feed stray cats and dogs. On the other hand, here, seems to be less poor. Beggars in the city is much smaller than, say, in the same Lima. But still there are those who earn their living, rummaging in street litter, collecting different things that can be sent for recycling and then sell it. I saw a few people who emptied bags of garbage on the street, just for this purpose (from which, of course, the cleaner does not get any!). Sunset on the river I have not gone out of Asuncion. The next time I'll talk about how went the route of so-called "Golden Ring." Start material:
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