Lost on a Mountain-top in Paraguay

Hola All:
Joy is much more poetic about this place. We left Caacupe with a plan. Arnaldo had told us of this village called Atyra which was famous for it´s beauty and had competed for one of those ´most beautiful town´awards. So we packed our bags and headed for the street that the buses stopped on. Thanks to Zulma from the Caacupe municipal office, we knew which bus to look for. Of course, that meant standing in the heat for about 45 minutes. On the bus and off for $1 each and admising the beauty of the country when the road turned to a dirt road. Oh well, as Joy is tired of hearing, in for a pound, in for a penny (or is the other way around). Anyway we arrived in Atyra and got off in what appeared to be the middle of town. By now I was over-confident in my Spanish and we asked the nearest lady where the hotel might be. That resulted in a heated discussion with another lady passing by and then our new ámigo´took us to the municipal office. We had been alerted by Zulma that Gustavo worked there, but it turns out that he doesn´t. They were very helpful but the only hotel seemed to be about 3 km out of town, which by the way, does seem very beautiful.
The chap that was helping us decided that the ´Casa delmonte´was the answer to our needs and got us a taxi (we thought that it was a free ride by a friend, but it turned out to be a $10 cab ride). Well, the Casa delmonte turns out to be an up-scale resort on the top of one of the small mountains that dot the Paraguayan landscape. More expensive than we are used to and very isolated. Joy, being a good sport, said that we could use the days off and proceeded to do 2 portraits of me (a waste of good paint many would say). So we have basically ´vegged´and swam and sipped cervasa for 2 days.
Tomorrow we plan to get back to Atyra early and spend the day wandering around the town before grabbing a bus back to Caacupe in hopes that we can get a room back in the same hotel. Meanwhile it has rained (some thunder and lightning) since last night, so the temperature is down to a comfortable 20C or so.
Bye Bye for now
Jim