Asunción Day 2

Today was a slow day. Allan and I clearly needed some sleep after 3 night buses in a week (including our 25 hour bus), because we didn't set an alarm and woke up at 1100! Our room was great at keeping the light out, so we had no idea we'd slept so late.

We got up and had some breakfast and organized our laundry to take the laundromat. After a bit of research into the prices of nearby laundromats, we set out to run our errands. Our first stop was the bank to hit the ATM for some cash to pay our hostel. After some confusion when the bank was closed, our kind hostel lady told us to check across the street in the plaza for the ATMs. We found them and got the cash. We were millionaires for a short period 🤑!

Our second stop was the laundromat. We walked through Plaza Uruguay to get there which was a nicely shaded plaza with a play park in it. We dropped our clothes off, and stopped at the grocery store on our way back to the hostel. We picked up a few things for lunch and then got a couple of dulce de leche filled churros from the guy on the corner as we walked the block and a half to the hostel.

I toasted some rolls to make sandwiches in our little kitchen in the room while Allan washed some smaller clothes items we didn't put into the laundromat. After some quick lunch, we started a couple of admin jobs, but they were taking longer than expected, so we had to push pause on them to get ready to head out for sunset.

We managed to get an Uber pretty quickly to head out of the historic center to a trendier area. Here, we went to Zulu Rooftop, a bar overlooking the city. We ordered a bottle of white wine and waited for the sun to go down. It was pretty cloudy, so we didn't expect to see much. However, a little while after the sun passed the horizon, the sky started lighting up with reds and pinks. It ended up being a beautiful sky, even with the clouds. There was also a thunderstorm in the distance and we could see the bolts of lightning far off. We sat, drank wine, talked, and watched the sky for a couple of hours. It was so nice to slow down and do something nice (also, cheap bottle of wine for a rooftop was also a plus).

After we finished the wine and paid, we went across the street to the mall and got some cheap food from the food court. Then, a quick Uber back to the hostel where we enjoyed the rest of our night relaxing, something we hadn't had a lot of time to do the last few weeks.Læs mere