Muna@Asuncion
After a longggggg 32 hour trip with 3 connections and 1 endless one in Sao Paulo, I can finally say that I’m here…yes, here in Paraguay! where time seems to has stopped, where people look the same, a bit older perhaps and where buildings, streets and sights looks exactly the same as the did a year ago and the year before.
Asuncion is a place that wherever you walk to, you can still feel the air of a neighborhood and find an old pawn house with very old forgotten stuff for sale, and around 3 beauty salons on the same street
It is also a place where you certainly fear for your life every time you cross the streets but that fear fades away shortly when you become more confident calculating what that guy in that small motorcycle is about to do and what the other crazy guy in that little white rudimentary truck is planning to do (if he has a plan at all). Crossing a street in Asuncion is like playing a guessing game, or you get good at it, or you don’t live to tell…fortunately most get good at it and are careful or skillful (or both) to cross the streets. So be careful while crossing streets here.
Today was my first walk around my neighborhood (Barrio Herrera) it was a nice and sunny day (sadly it gets dark very early this time of year), I had the impression that I never left Asuncion,…I was home, it was a fun stroll, I just observed the places, the broken asphalt of the streets, the trees on the side walks, it felt like a town inside a city, a place where you can do your nails around the corner, still talk and know your neighbors and even know the name of the woman of the convenience store.
Asuncion is not perfect and perhaps not beautiful but its charming on its own way and now that I’m here I remember what draws me so much to Asuncion…
It is not what you see…its what you feel
Paraguay….tenes que sentirlo!
