Layne organized our visit to Encarnación and we started by driving the Costanera, the waterfront which has been beautified to attract tourists to the city that wants to be the summer capital of landlocked Paraguay.
My heart is red and white, Coca Cola.
Behind Asuncion the capital and Ciudad Del Este the shopping capital of the country Encarnación is the tenth largest city and the vacation capital of Paraguay. But red mud still stains the traffic in this urban center. Can’t escape it, it seems like.
Imagine this in summer vacation in January and February.
Argentina across the water.
Layne had her eyes on a neighborhood with mosaics.
I’m not fond of cobblestone streets which I call Roman roads but when they are blocked by holes it gets awkward in a big van. My language was rather colorful, I’m sorry to say, as I turned and blundered the wrong way up a one way street. Oh well.
The Staircase of St Peter the Apostle was a tribute to the 400th birthday of the city designed by one Rubén Sikora. It was a damp Saturday afternoon when we got there and the neighbors stared at us like we were a troupe of lunatics who were invading. The local dogs were not happy to see Rusty and the yards of the houses echoed with a barrage of barking.
We ended the with a short drive across town to a Japanese restaurant with enough parking to accommodate GANNET2, a miracle.
Hiroshima got rave reviews from fellow travelers and strangers. We didn’t cross in time for lunch so we planned to drive after dark after dinner to a place to park. 
US$60 seemed very reasonable for an excellent dinner and it was worth having to drive after dark for twenty minutes out of town. Out iOverlander spot for Saturday night was a gas station with excellent WiFi and a quiet parking spot. 
Up next ruins and Laotian food I hope.
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