So our bus to Paraguay did in fact take us 24 hours and thankfully was far less eventful. At the border however is where all the fun and games began!! Aparently the border we were using has a big drug trafficking problem so we were to expect dogs and a few peoples bags to be searched. We all pilled out of the bus into the intorable heat and lined our bags up and our selves. The drug dog and his handler were great fun. The handler ran up and down the bags getting the dog all worked up with his toy, that looked like a face cloth and then let him out. The dog ran around sniffing, but didnt find anything :( Well untill the police men planted the drugs in amongst our bags as a kind of test I guess. While this was all going on the police men then started one by one going through everyones bags. Fully emptying them too. Steph and I were not looking forward to this. Thankfully! We got a man with a cold and he couldn't be bothered to go through all our stuff and we got off with him just giving our bags a good grope and a wee peer in the top.
While the drug stuff had been going on this wild boar looking pig kept appearing and one of the police men would try and chase it away. It would try and sniff the bags and us. While Steph was getting her bag checked I was sat beside the bus and had a very close encounter with the pig. She wanted the bread rolls in my bags and kept putting her oversized snout in it and biting things!! Had I known at the time how horrible the bread was she would have been welcome to it! Not many people would let her near them, but the pig only spoke spanish so that was proving a problem for me! Not that it mattered too much, she enjoyed bitting the awful book I was reading. After some time, this got a little dull and she went and lay in the mud. Know I told her as soon as she did that that she was not allowed to come near me again... she didn't listen and did a great job at getting pig mud all over my rucksack and also the crap book (I didn't mind that bit too much). The police man told us that she had been there since she was a baby and didn't realise that she was a pig. She thought she was a dog and didn't understand why she couldnt do all the things other dogs did!!
She was a clever pig too and sniffed out food in someones bin liner of luggage. When she got into trouble the first time she hid and then went back and stole the whole bag of crisps!! It was funny, when she got into trouble she used to lie down like a dog would too. If she had rolled onto her back I would have thought she was Nuala in disguise!!
We arrived at Asuncion a bit later than the man had predicted, which sadly meant we didn`t get to see much of the city. But I will say that they do some very nice veggie pies in the downtown area. Especially if it´s around 10pm and you´re starving!
We say some very nice buildings along with 2 different hen doo´s. They also definitely have more money in Paraguay than in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. We were there just long enough to realize that things cost a little bit more (no more 3 course meals for under 2 pounds!)
We´re off early tomorrow to head to the Falls!!! And yes, we are excited!! Of course Anna keeps pointing out that it´s just water in then end ... what´s the big deal?!
Steph and Anna
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