Wild West in Paraguay
Exactly 370km from Asuncion on the trail (because I can’t name it road) from Concepcion to Pozo Colarado is a real Wild West. I came there by accident, my driver went there and gave his Home, and next day when I wanted to hitchhike more I walked only 200m and found another one 🙂 and thats how I spend here few days and became a villiage toy and I could see some things.
Thats a villiage like from Wild West and people who live here like an american settlers or Indians. In whole society live around 200 people in 40 houses around one, dusty road. Nkt very good builded wooden houses, for the night doors barricaded by piece of iron, old pots, water boiled on fire and food for one plate. In charge there is a boos – a little bit sherif, judge and indian chef. Thats a person who decide in every difficult situation, make a ław and decided which finger cut when someone will not pay back debts.
Where that work? Like a real settlers they are going on (mechanical) horses with axes to cut trees. Later you can see how they pull beams along road like a future Jesus with cross in part from IKEA. They’re trying to sell that beams in Concepcion or they’re building new houses (there is a lot of beginned sheds which in the future should be theirs houses).
What they eat? That what they will hunt kr harvest. Mostly they just going fishing or hunting for Wikd cats. They warned me gk not go far away because thats cats are like a little lions. They have extremally Sharp teeths. And they are really big!!! After hunted they are hanging them on trees and putting down skin, and selling it or putting on the fire to eat. In taste it’s like a normal meat, bjt after trying it I needed to spend a lot of time looking stars in bathroom without roof… next day I realize that you can but that meal also in shop where is hanging on hooks, and on meals is hanging a lot of fly… they are hunting also for cobras. I’m always really happy when I can sleep under roof but when I heard that I jumped from the fun (or I was so scary, you can choose witch one). But the most important way to earn some Golden ducats is working of marihuana plantation. Whole that field, field of Chaco where I was and closer to border with Brazil is full of marihuana plantation. I saw some even from the window of car so harvest will be good this year. Thing is interesting but also very dangerous and after meeting with narcotraficante I didn’t want to come closer to that.
How they are spending free time? Nature is helping them. There is a lot of trees Aborrado. That tree give around 30cm fruits which are fermenting very fast and during 3-4 days can give Chicha – around 70% pure alcohol! One tree can destroyed whole villiage and there is a planty of them! I wanted to try It thats so strong as they say (“Be cool, I’m from Poland”) but unfortunately they drank everything 🙁 so fire water and… bilard! On green field of table they can make real trucks that I saw only on Eurosport! If some headhunter is heading that there is 200 champions 🙂
But because they have a lot of pure indian blood they also sitting around a fireplace and singing old, tradicional, indian songs which are mixing with soind of lake. Unfortunately silence of night is also destroying by preacher who is shouting something from radio which listen boss. Maybe he want to be also a local preacher?
As every tribe also they need to have a local war. They are fiting with next villiage. I don’t really know what is a reason of that war, they didn’t want to tell me, or even they don’t remember that. Mens are meeting in cheaf house for a powwow and how to hit neighbours. Almost everybody have some piece of gun but usually they are looks like from museum. And they especialy don’t hide with them. When they are playing on shop first they are putting from pocket gun and after change.
They have also very interesting water (not only fire water). Because all of the water which is passing by there is radioactive! Whole lakes nad rivers maybe is not shining in the dsrk but is so poisoned thst they even live there. But because is only sours of water so what they can do? They are swimming, fishing and cleaning clouths there. I met a guy who whole his life is swimming there and nothing is changed in his body (and he don’t care thst can read a book on night without light). Govermant also know about that but is he do something?
It’s also interesting place because of mosquitos. There is thousands of them!!! Like on signal lf factory thousands of them are starting kill people. First time I saw something like that. They don’t care about that but for me that wa something incredible and I could make a suicide.
As a real villiage of settlers there is only one road, one eay to connect with civilization. It’s more like a little bit of asfalt and fuly of dust and it’s looks like a villiage road but the true is that it’s one from the most important road in whole country! Because thats how they looks like here 😀 but there is passing by around 10cars per hour and one bus per day who is bribging new doomed and grabbing those one who want to safe soul. If someone will say me that is difficult to catch a car in Europe I will bring him here 🙂
Strange place on 370km. Time machine. Wild West in Paraguay
