The way to Asunción was different with unique landscape and a lot less people. We drove for hours without seeing any sign of civilisation. The bus was checked for drugs 5 times on the way, one time we had to take our luggage out of the bus and they first searched it with dogs and then went through it by hand.
Asunción was a small culture shock because it was really western. After talking to a few people living there we had a taxi take us tothe cheapest hostal from the lonely planet, together with another German guy we met on the bus . The hostel was nice with air conditioned rooms and a pool but being the cheapest one still means that it is double the price from Bolivia or Peru so 10€ per person and night. But because of the currency we still felt pretty wealthy. Our first time withdrawing half a million from an ATM :) We stayed 3 days because we wanted to watch the superball and didn't know whether it would be possible in other cities. We went to a public viewing in the streets with Simon, the guy from the bus and a few other people. Other than that there wasn't much to see. Some nice buildungs, an old palace with slums right next to it where we nearly walked through by accident . In the hostel Max met someone from the village he spent most of his school live in and who knew some of the same people he did. The world is a small place. Besides from him we met a lot of other Germans, more than we saw during all of our time in Bolivia. On our last day the hostal had some electric problems and an electrician came to repair them. The hostel owner didn't tell us and they didn't check for plugged in devices before starting "to fix" the electricity as a result all of our and Simon's chargers and power cabels were burned trough and the owner didn't see what he did wrong so we had to buy new ones from our own money. Other than that it was a nice time in Asunción with a lot of relaxing in the pool and drinking beer.
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