Some trips yield their pleasures like penny candy. You step aboard, look through a window, or walk through a museum, and beauty, intrigue and history overwhelm you. Paraguay’s Gran Chaco however, the Mount Everest of road trips, makes you sweat for its rewards as you push forward attempting...
Flying into Mbaracayú can feel like one is landing on a remote island. But, rather than surrounded by water, this nature reserve is enclosed by the trees of the Interior Atlantic Forest. Once spanning much of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, this forest formerly covered 300 million acres. Today...
The resting place of a landlocked country’s navy, from a forgotten war, the “town” of Vapor Cué has practically everything going for it: history, natural environment, a story too bizarre not to be true, and more than a touch of absurdity and sadness.
Vapor Cué was the end of the...
Two little girls decked out in fleece jackets and mud-covered, blue, rubber rain boots chase spring lambs for hours. The lambs skitter and bleat. The girls call out “That one’s mine!” and “Come here little lamb.” The lambs are largely impervious to the little girls’ entreaties, and...