Atmospheric Phenomenon a solar halo

I was recently treated to a sight unlike I had ever seen before. A rare atmospheric phenomenon called a solar halo. My first inlination that something was going on was when I stepped outside to find a huge black disc just hanging in the air above the house. Anyone who...

Beyond the tarmac the roads in Paraguay turn to earth

Most of the roads between towns and across the country in Paraguay have now been paved. The same is true of the principal roads around the towns and cities, however it does not take long, even in AsunciĆ³n to find an alternative road surface. Firstly on those roads...

Paraguay. A green land.

Despite the inevitable illegal logging and forest fires Paraguay remains a very green and heavily wooded land.  Even where the trees have been cleared they are on the whole replaced by pasture rather than concrete. The picture is a little different in the thorn...