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Asuncion: Mother of Cities

Asuncion's International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Silvio Pettirrossi)

Twenty three hours in a plane, fifteen of them nonstop from Nairobi to Sao Paulo Brazil took me to Paraguayan soil at Aeropuerto Internacional Silvio Pettirrossi in Asuncion, a distance of 33,632 kilometres.

What started roughly two days earlier on Monday night, shortly before 11.45pm when Emirates Flight EK0722 took off at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport ended minutes to 1.00 am local time (7.00am Kenya time) on Wednesday morning.

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