Every year on Good Friday, thousands of Paraguayans from all over the province of Misiones make the journey, often on foot, to the Cerro, an objectively-not-very-large-but-relatively-so hill with a small oratory at the summit. It takes about two hours to walk to the hill and another half-hour or so to climb it. Although the relentless heat has eased now that we are into autumn, Paraguayans still consider it unthinkable to trudge that distance in the sun, so we set off at 4am, with chipa.
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| The sun rose on the way. |
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| At the top, eating CHIPA! With Leti, Paty and the parish priest Oscar. |
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| Wooden cross next to the oratory. |
Lots of people go to the foot of the hill by car or motorbike, so halfway back to Santa Maria we hitched a lift home from a passing vehicle. By that point the sun was beating down again, so it was quite welcome!
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