Asuncion - rough diamond Graham Bingham, England Bus in Asuncion (Paraguay's capital city, approx. Perevi.) Tickets that I bought the day before departure, canceled, when there were only 10 minutes before departure (despite the fact that Company "Rice" is considered the most reliable bus company in the country). Fortunately, I returned to a full refund and wait for the next flight (a different company) had to be just about an hour. Immediately evident that there were not accustomed to foreign tourists. In the bus company was discharged from my passport name and print it on the ticket as "a British subject, John Graham." While I was waiting for his flight, came a strange bus, loaded with toilet paper, which was intended for the second floor of the bus station. As a result, a group of guys arranged a contest, someone will throw more packages of paper out the window of the second floor. I do not know whether they practiced before, but mistakes happen pretty often, and package exploded and scattered rolls in all directions. The bus, which arrived so I waited on the form was much older than the worst instances of rolling stock, to which I was already used in Paraguay. And, despite the fact that we got to the place intact, he moved much more slowly. We arrived at the place after sunset, and left at 10:30 am. The bus station is far from the center, but I was lucky, I got on the bus and it drove me almost wherever I was needed. In the end, I stayed at a hotel "Ambahador, one of the cheapest in the center of Asuncion. The hotel was completely normal, albeit a little rough. But only for 30 thousand Guarani (currency of Paraguay, approx. Perevi.) (A little over 4 pounds) a day, I stayed a block away from the main square. I stayed in this hotel for the whole week, because he found for himself plenty of lessons in Asuncion and its suburbs, and where any sense of hurry and I was not. Unpleasant, but two nights at the hotel had no electricity. The entire block was without light, for some not entirely clear to me why. Pantheon of heroes I was not prudent and plan your stay in Asuncion is very bad. I not only missed the national day of Paraguay (14 May), I also arrived in the city on May 24, the day before the national day of Argentina, which this year celebrated in two hundred times. I was told that the celebrations in Buenos Aires were very colorful, and it was a pity that I could not stay in Argentina a couple of days. National Cathedral Asuncion something like rough diamond. Although the "unfinished zirconium" fits him best. At the heart of the city and the neighborhood has many beautiful buildings, but some of them are in poor condition and some areas just started. Asuncion was the center of the Spanish colonies in southern South America, until, when it was founded in Buenos Aires. But, unfortunately, there remained not so many colonial buildings. The reason for this - easy paranoia of one of the first president of independent Paraguay, Dr. Francia, who feared that he would be killed, and ordered to demolish all the high buildings in the city so he could see the killer, if he thinks of waiting for him at one of the roofs. Paraguay at the time was one of the most influential countries in South America with the largest army. However, in the 60-ies of the XIX century, after the war with the Tripartite Alliance, which includes Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, he has lost half its territory and nearly 90% of the male population. The country is very long could not recover from this defeat, and only in 1993, the first president chosen through democratic elections. The building of the Congress in his first full day in town I visited its main attractions. The first list is the palace of the Casa de la Independencia, where independence was proclaimed Paraguay. It is located next to my hotel and there is an interesting museum. One of the most famous attractions is considered the Pantheon of Heroes, it buried the remains of war heroes. There is also the tomb of the unknown soldier, a child participant of the war against the Triple Alliance. Surprisingly, the National Cathedral is located in the middle of parking lots, next to Independence Square, which, I must say, diminish its importance. The former government building, the Cabildo, and now holds a museum that you should definitely visit. Behind him is a small bay of Asuncion on the Paraguay River, the coast is built up with inconspicuous hut. Today the government meets in the building of the Congress, the construction of which was partly financed by the Government of Taiwan (as Paraguay - one of the few states in its time to recognize the government of Taiwan legitimate government of all China) (after the Chinese Civil War in 1949, when the Chinese government fled from the troops Communists to Taiwan, approx. Perevi.). The main entrance to his strikingly similar to the church of Le Corbusier (French architect, a pioneer of modernism, approx. Perevi.) In France, where I worked as a volunteer last summer. Deadline for material:
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