csandwparaguay
Here are some photos from Common Sense and Whiskey, chapter 12: Paraguay. You can buy professional prints of most of these photos in the Argentina and Paraguay Galleries. You can buy Common Sense and Whiskey on Amazon.com, or by clicking here.
Or, go back to Chapter 11: Tibet, or on to Chapter 13: Borneo
Every single thing lived there. There were aranas, tarantulas, and eighty billion mosquitoes. Monkeys and sloths and the tamandua. The tamandua ate honey. The carpincho, I think it wasn’t sure if it was a beaver or an anteater. And the lobo gargantilla didn’t know if it was a beaver or an eel, with fat swimmers’ feet and an ugly tube of a body, four feet long with its tail. And this toucan.
argentinaargentineargentiniansouth americasouthamericaiguazufallstropictropicalbirdanimaljungletoucantreebranchbeakwildlifenationalpark
Foz de Iguaçu, Brazil, a city of 300,000. These lights were cool, not just one red and one green, but a whole scheme-full of reds and greens, five apiece in columns. When the color changed the top one was lit, and the less time left, the lower the light slid toward the bottom until the color changed again.
brazilbraziliansouth americasouth americanamericaamericantrafficurbancitysigndirectionarrowroadstreetlightpoleaeroportoargentina
Walter thought we might lose our film if we took pictures of border control at Cuidad del Este, Paraguay, but eating chicken out of a box interested the border police more than we did.
paraguaysouth americaamericaamericanparaguayanbordersignwelcomebienvenidostrafficcustomecuidaddelestecontrolroadblockqueue
The Itaugua - Asuncion bus enters the Pan American Highway, somewhere along that road.
paraguaysouth americaamericaamericanparaguayanbuscoachtransporttransportationroadstreettrafficitauguacolorfulruralcountrysidecountrypan americanhighway
Hotel Sabo must’ve had a half dozen guests on fourteen floors. Once we found it and the sun came up, here's what we found.
paraguaysouth americaamericaamericanparaguayanasuncionurbancitycapitalskylineskyscrapercityscapebuildingarchitecturehighriseroofdowntowncenter
The Presidential Palace, Asuncion.
paraguaysouth americaamericaamericanparaguayanpalacepresidentialarchitecturebuildingcapitalpowerasuncionurbancityflagpoledrivewaylawn