Villarrica, Paraguay - Not a Traditional Paraguayan Destination On paper, Villarrica, Paraguay doesn’t have much to offer tourism-wise. A city of about 50,000, it sits about a half an ...
Brasília is heaven for the modernism-obsessed. Beton brut as far as the eye can see, without any sort of colonial influence obstructing the view. I traveled to Brasília on a ...
Santa María de Fe, Paraguay, sits smack in the middle of the Misiones district, famous for Jesuit reductions dating to the 16th-18th centuries. When the Spanish and Portuguese came to ...
I wasn't sure what Brasília, the ultra-mod (by 1950s standards, anyway) capital of Brazil, would have in store to fulfill my insatiable thirst for kitsch. Brasília isn’t necessarily known as a ...
San Bernadino didn’t figure into my original plans for Paraguay. Neither had a road trip, quite honestly. But after I changed my plans from traveling overland from Brasilia to ...
Walking along 25 de Mayo street in Asunción at 7am was Paraguay’s ace in the hole. The city was still largely asleep, save for the excited buzz and chatter among ...
I hadn’t heard of the Commewijne district before we arrived in Suriname. I had maybe read a bit about the area and its importance during Dutch Colonial times, but knew ...
A Highlight of Suriname: Visiting a Maroon Village in the Deep Jungle As I sit propped upright in bed, recovering from a long battle with entamoeba histolytica (or Petey the ...
Roti: Or, how to get obese in Suriname without really trying.Despite typical over planning, I barely researched food in Suriname before we arrived. David is a vegetarian, and I have ...
We arrived to Georgetown, Guyana near midnight on a Saturday. We had been traveling for nearly twenty four hours, and had been subjected to horrors only known by those ...
