Republica del Paraguay

This is the fourth day I am in Paraguay. We stayed one night in Ciudad del Este, after the first night we wanted to go to the cyber, but the man was busy, so we got tired of waiting. Diego wanted to call his grandmother, but its much cheaper to call from Brazil, so we decided to pass the Friendship Bridge again. We would only stay in the brazilian side just some minutes, so we skipped the passport controls, passed the border and went to a telephone and called. Later we ate at a lanchonete close before heading back to Paraguay. After passing the bridge not less than five people wanted to sell things to us, the last one told us we must go to the passport control, to be on the safe side we did so. Well, its a fact, as the man in the toll said, we broke the law, we should have gone there to take a stamp that we leave Paraguay, and I should get two new stamps in Brazil, one for entering and one for leaving, later we both get new stamps for entering Paraguay again. But the man didnt make big thing of this and let us go, whatever, some mintes and we can pretend it didnt happen, hunderds of people is passing the bridge without even look at the controls.
We decided to leave Ciudad del Este and went to the Rodoviario station. As fast as we left the city buss several men asked us were we wanted to go, a woman from Brazil said its okay to buy trips like this, she have done it and it is safe, so we bought one ticket for 50 000 guarani to Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. 50 000 guarani is about 20 reais, and this is about 70 crowns, extremly cheap, and it takes 5 hours to Asunción, a trip like this in my homeland is about 2000 crowns and many many millions of guarani.
We arrived in Asunción at evening, got a hotel for 90 000 guarani for two people. Later we ate at a restaurant close by, asked if they accept card, Visa card, and they said yes, and was in a hurry to make us sit. After the dinner they suddenly didnt have a card mashine anymore, really false people, but we had money. Well, the cellphone doensnt work anywhere in Paraguay, so I wanted to use my card so my mom can see that Im alive at least when she check the internet bank. Next day I wanted to be online on msn, but the cyber we went to didnt work. Yesterday we saw the President´s palace, it was white and beautiful, but it only had some few guards and no wall surronding it. The guard was nice and talked to us. It was interresting to think about the contrast between this palace and the Buckingham Palace in London wich is totally surronded with both guards and walls, arrogant guards that not even look at you, and here its so open and the guards say hello to people passing by, I liked it. We also met a man at the street when we asked for the way to take to the downtown, we talked a while and he was interrested that I was from Sweden, he had a very good friend from Malmo in Sweden, he lost contact with him long ago and wanted to hear from him again. We changed mail, and he invited me and Diego to his home for a while, it was a fine home. His name is Emilio, got a pencil from him as a memory.
Of course, it feels abit odd to just go to someones home like that first, but after it feels nice to make contacts with people from the palce you visit.
Before heading back to our hotel, we ate at a confeitaria, Bolsi. Today we will continue our trip to the south, to Córdoba in Argentina.