Travelsauria

South America is a huge continent and not everyone has the possibility to visit it in the same way like we do, in an open-end travel. With not so much money but plenty of time. Generally, travellers and visitors come for short-term vacations and, eventually, need to make some choices and skip parts of the continent. There is a country, therefore, that ends to be the sacrificed victim of this choice. A country considered less interesting than all the others, a second-class destination: we are talking about Paraguay . Our alternative way of travelling, instead, trying to avoid flights and always in search of volunteering projects where to stop a couple of weeks, brought us straight into the Guaraní State. From the Pampa of Southern Brazil, we hitch-hiked straight to Ciudad del Este, the first city after the eastern border of Paraguay. A distance of more than 850km, covered entirely in 2 days with 10 different lifts.  Sleeping behind an abandoned bar in Puerto Valle was jus...

After the overwhelming Paulista city life and our Bodega night, we felt the need to find ourselves again and to go back to our beloved nature. Therefore, we actually had to solve another primary problem: finding a new volunteering project for Christmas and New Years Eve, where we would get accommodation in exchange of our work (considering that the hostel prices go crazy during holidays time). Who came in our rescue has been the Louzada's, a Brazilian family running their own cattle and sheep farm in the middle of the Pampa.  Yes, you got it right. We’re not in Argentina as you might mistakenly think. The Pampa is a recognised unique biome, with a surface of more than 750.000 km², extending from South-West of Buenos Aires, covering whole Uruguay and reaching South of Brazil, in the region called Rio Grande do Sul. And this is exactly where we ended our bus ride from São Paulo: in a small city called Alegrete. The bus station was closed, no human life down the streets, even on a...