The Chaco: Uniqueness and Variety of a Threatened Region
We have already talked in our previous article (link here ) about Paraguay and about how many travellers underrate its value and its beauty. That's why we want to spend a few more words, telling you our experience from one of the hottest and most sparsely inhabited region in the world and one of the latest unspoiled frontier: the Paraguayan Chaco . We volunteered in the central part of this region, divided in two by the Trans-Chaco Highway, the only paved road going through it. The others only 4km of asphalt, realised in 2009, can be found in the centre of Filadelfia, the main transport hub and administrative centre. Johanna wrote a spontaneous prose straight-from-the-chest , a great description of the environment where we have been immersed for more than two weeks. Let’s start from here! “A thorn-bush savannah, where the landscape appears green and lush but is full of hostile spines and poisonous animals. A land with a nickname: “ The green Hell ”. A land of cactus...