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Great Graffiti_ (La Paz. Bolivia)

Workhorse (Paraguay)

Street-life (Paraguay)

Street-life (Paraguay)

Street-life (Paraguay)

Street-life (Paraguay)

Even in Paraguay (San Cipriano. Paraguay.)

Street-life (San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Papoto, Lulu & Steve (A cooking lesson. First ya gotta peel the veg Steve
At Home.
San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Reunion (Bek meets up with old school friends.
At Home.
San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Papoto, Lulu and Rebecca (At Home.
San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Grandad (Grandad and 'tolerant' granddaughter.
San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Mundy and Cynthia (San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Marty and Iris (San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Marty, in his kitchen. (Marti prepares the barbacoa.
San Ignacio, Paraguay)

The Truck (Maximo and our transport. Looked a lot dirtier when we left.
San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Juaquina (And a happy proud Dad in the background.)

The Office (Maximo and Lulu in the office.
San Ignacio, Paraguay)

San Ignacio De Loyola Church (San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Street life (The streets of San Ignacio are colourful with art.)

Street art (San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Mauricio appreciates good street art. (San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Street art (San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Casa de ejercicios espirituales San Ignacio de Loyola (House of Spiritual Exercises St. Ignatius Loyola
San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Diocesan Museum of San Ignacio Guazu (The museum contains many beautiful and remarkable carvings of Hispanic-Guarani baroque. There are exhibited in four rooms, 30 polychrome wood carved images.)

Diocesan Museum of San Ignacio Guazu (The museum contains many beautiful and remarkable carvings of Hispanic-Guarani baroque. There are exhibited in four rooms, 30 polychrome wood carved images.)

Diocesan Museum of San Ignacio Guazu (The museum contains many beautiful and remarkable carvings of Hispanic-Guarani baroque. There are exhibited in four rooms, 30 polychrome wood carved images.)

Diocesan Museum of San Ignacio Guazu (Museo Diocesano de San Ignacio Guazu)

Papoto (Maximo Genez, our guide and friend at the Diocesan Museum of San Ignacio Guazu.
Museo Diocesano de San Ignacio Guazu)

Papoto the soldier (Maximo Genez, our guide and friend at the Diocesan Museum of San Ignacio Guazu)

Raimundo's (Raimundo's Hardware store, San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Shady Street (San Ignacio, Paraguay)

The road to Tañarandy (Started more than 20 years ago and now a tradition each Easter Good Friday.
The Yvága Rapé (Way to Heaven), is a sand track about 3 miles long that becomes a busy, colorful road lit by thousands of tiny candles and walked by thousands of faithful to hear the story of Jesus' life and death.)

On the road to Tañarandy

The Chapel of Tanarandy

The Chapel of Tanarandy

The Chapel of Tanarandy

The Chapel of Tanarandy

The Chapel of Tanarandy

The Chapel of Tanarandy

Papoto (Our smiling protector with his revolver.)

Steve and Papoto. (Steve gets his 'don't muck with me' look organised.)

That Car. (Steve saw this car in town and had to have a drive. An hour or so later, it arrived at our place. Maximo does it again.)

Next stop, Iguazu Falls. (Waiting for our late night bus.)

Friendly Firepower. (A Bank Guard with a smile.)

2am at the Bus Stop (Waiting for our bus at the bus station in Encarnacion)

Football at the Bus Station. 2am. (Waiting for our bus at the bus station in Encarnacion)

The Milk Cart. (Milk and cream delivered to the door. San Ignacio, Paraguay.)

Mauricio photo op. (Not impressed with Burger King though.)

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa

Rebecca, Steve and family at the Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa (In southern Paraguay, near the Parana River, the ruins of Jesuit missions founded in the 17th and 18th centuries to convert Guarani Indians to Christianity.)

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa (At the San Ignacio mission, in the Paraguayan province of Misiones, the only buildings standing were part of the old Jesuit school and now host a museum where sculptures recovered from the old church are exhibited.
The statues are images of saints, virgins and martyrs carved in polychrome wood, with features resembling Guarani men and women, short and with slanted eyes.
This artistic synthesis is known as the Baroque-Guarani style, combining 18th-century European trends inspired by Jesuits like Italian Jose Brasanelli (1659-1728) with South American indigenous influences.)

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa (Guarani Jesuit Mission San Cosmas and Damian.)

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa (The San Cosme y Damian mission is in Itapua, a province located about 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of Asuncion.)

Jesuit ruins of San Cosme and Damian - Itapúa (Guarani Jesuit Mission San Cosmas and Damian.)

Megadam: The Itaipu (Here seven visions, seven liquid sculptures vanished through the computerized calculations of a country ceasing to be human in order to become a chilly corporation, nothing more. A movement becomes a dam. -
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, "Farewell to Seven Falls"

Sometimes progress is a mixed blessing.)

Megadam: The Itaipu (The water intake of one single 715 MW Francis-turbine is 700 m³/s, its weighted efficiency is 93.8%.

Each year ITAPU generates 75 TWh of electricity and avoids 67.5 million tons of carbondioxide emissions - compared to coal power plants.)

Our Paraguay Family (missing Maximo) (Megadam: The Itaipu
Seven Quick Facts
Height: 738 feet (225m)
Length: 4.8 miles (7.2km)
Finished: May 5, 1984
Cost: $18 billon
Location: Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay
Made of: Concrete and steel on the main dam, with earth and rock on side dams.
Other: In 2008 generated 94,684 megawatts, the largest amount of power ever produced by a single dam)

Young ladies on top of The Itaipu Dam.

Itaipu Dam (While the Itaipu Dam is an amazing achievement and was selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, its construction did come at a cost. Almost 10,000 families had to be relocated before their homes were flooded by the growing reservoir. Also, the spectacular Guaíra Falls was submerged under the lake and then dynamited to allow safe navigation of the river. The Guaíra Falls, also known as the "Seven Falls," was thought by many to be the most spectacular natural water feature in the world. It had a total height more than twice that of Niagara Falls and a water flow that was more than double.)

Megadam: The Itaipu (Itaipu translates to mean ‘the sounding stone'. It was named after a small island that was near the construction site of the dam.
Itaipu Dam is a series of dams that are 738 feet high and 4.8 miles long.
To begin construction it was necessary to divert the flow of the Parana River, one of the largest rivers in the world.
More than 50 million tons of earth and rock had to be moved to create the channel to divert the water. This channel was 1.3 miles long, 300 feet deep and 490 feet wide.
It took 40,000 workers to build the dam. The majority of these workers were from Brazil. 149 of them were killed during construction. It took seven years to build.
More than 10,000 families had to be relocated during construction to make way for the channel to divert)

Megadam: The Itaipu (Height: 738 feet (225m)
Length: 4.8 miles (7.2km)
Finished: May 5, 1984
Cost: $18 billon
Location: Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay
Made of: Concrete and steel on the main dam, with earth and rock on side dams.
Other: In 2008 generated 94,684 megawatts, the largest amount of power ever produced by a single dam)

You are joking! Not. (Caleb gets a fantastic memento from Mundy, of his stay with the Genez family.)

Home life (Cynthia, Grace, Sophia, Bekky and Mundy.)

Dinner time. (Salads, fresh bread, home made soup, bbq'd home grown meat, fruit. And this was lunch in the Genez household.)

The Bus (San Fernando, Paraguay)

Half a car anyone? (Paraguay)

A Bus. Not ours this time. (San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Waiting for the bus. (San Ignacio, Paraguay)

Parting is such sweet sorrow. (Iris, Caleb and Mauricio saying 'nos vemos'.)

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