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At the Prague Airport
Ruzyne.. |
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In plane. |
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Asuncion (Paraguay). |
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The bus transportation
in Asuncion. |
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The bus transportation
in Asuncion. |
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The bus transportation
in Asuncion. |
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The bus terminal in
Asuncion, Paraguay. |
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Our van on the border
bridge between Paraguay and Brazil. |
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The border bridge
between Paraguay and Brazil. |
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Roadblock in the street
on the way from Iguazu Falls. The town was on
Paraguayan side. |
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Burning Chaco. |
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Burning Chaco. |
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This car really arrived
and then dropped off ... |
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La Quinta.
Accommodation. |
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A way to the Chaco. One
of two asphalt roads in Paraguay. |
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In our van. |
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A church on the way
from the waterfalls. It was in reconstruction. |
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... and its inside. |
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Hotel Bouqueron in Neuland. Chaco. |
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Hotel Bouqueron in Neuland. Chaco. |
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Neuland - settlement in Chaco. |
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David in our van. |
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Hotel Rosa, Asuncion.
The price was 4 USD per hour. Finally we had paid 20 USD
for the whole group and night. |
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A view from the balcony
of the Rosa whorehouse in Asuncion. |
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Hotel Rosa, Asuncion.
Detail of the bathroom. The shower was directly above
the toilet bowl and the sitting person could shower
immediately. |
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And one more glance on
this amazing hotel. All the night we slept in our
sleeping bags! |
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The way through the
Atacama desert towards the Argentinean-Chilean border. |
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Argentinean side of the
border. |
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The customs lama. It
saw through all the coming buses. |
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About one hundred
kilometers away was the Chilean check-in point. The
customs officers were really radical. We had to clean
our shoes on chemically impregnated mat ant the bus
was sprayed with disinfection. |
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Antofagasta - a city on
the Chilean coast of the Pacific Ocean. |
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Antofagasta - ruins behind the city. |
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Antofagasta -
hopeless attempt at hitchhiking. Peter and Charles are
near the road. They gave up after 5 hours and used
bus. Milan, David and Jacob were successful. |
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Chaņaral - Chilean town
on the mountainside of the Andes. |
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Chaņaral - hotel La
Marina. Simple, cheap and cozy. |
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Chaņaral - hotel La
Marina, one of the rooms. |
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Chaņaral - departure
from the town and another attempt at hitchhiking. Succeeded after 6
hours. |
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Vallenar - another town
on the way along Chile. This church sounded
electronically and it far reminded of music. |
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Vallenar - a glance on the town from
near hill. |
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Santiago - the last
part of our way we did by bus, the hitchhiking does
not work in Chile. Santiago is a big city from which
we had a flight via Sao Paulo to Europe. |
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Santiago - a pile of
the traveling cases in the airport vestibule. |
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Yippee, we fly to Sao
Paulo. Once more we go over Andes, now in the plane. |