Thursday, June 26, 2014

Paraguay: Oxcart Rolling Out Of The Past

In 1971, during a seven-month exploration of Latin America, this sandy path leading away from EncarnaciĆ³n, Paraguay, offered me this scene of a time long gone in the rest of the world. Armed with a stick long enough to whip his first two oxen, this farmer was taking his harvest to market. 
     I had recently traveled down from Bolivia’ high and icy Altiplano desert and could not have been more grateful for the heat and surrounding greenness. Also, Paraguay in those days added the attraction of a travel machine. Walking its dusty paths plied by people on horses and oxcarts threw me back 100 years.
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