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| Paraguay Travel Guide for backpackers |
About the size of California, and surrounded by Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina, Paraguay is a country of grassy plains and an untamed wilderness of marshes, lagoons, dense forests, and jungles.
Somewhat isolated from even its neighbours in the past by geography and politics, Paraguay is building a more welcoming image and receives visitors warmly today, offering national parks, Jesuit missions and the great Chaco area as some of its attractions. |
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Asuncion - Paraguay's capital is a city is built above the east bank of the Rio Paraguay and keeps a low profile with few high rise buildings, and some authentic colonial architecture, and amongst other attractions the Palacio de Gobierno, which during El Supremo's Rodriguez de Francia's rule no-one was allowed to look at, and risked being shot if they did.
Eastern Paraguay - The famous Spiderweb lace, known as ñandut is made in Itagua in Eastern Paraguay, and the lakeside resorts of Aregua and San Bernadino can be found in this part of the country, as well as a beautifully preserved Jesuit mission.
The Chaco - Some of Paraguay's most endangered wildlife life in the dense thorn forest of the Chaco, and large cats such as the jaguar, puma and ocelots can be spotted (pardon the pun) in the bushes here.
Fortin Toledo - Discovered in 1975 the Chacoan peccary, a Pleistocene relic once thought extinct thrives here in the reserve that was the scene of warfare and horror.
Piribebuy - This quiet little place once served as the national capital, but after the War of the Triple Alliance, slipped back into oblivion, and today is more famous for its kicking local brew, caña, than anything else. |
 DAILY BUDGET in PARAGUAY - With cheap meals coming at about US$2-5 and accommodation in the region of US$5-10 a backpacker could make it for about US$15 a day, if prepared to rough it. For more comfort and decent food it would be wiser to budget on US$30-50 a day. |
| Rainfall is equally distributed throughout the year, although the Brazilian border gets the lion's share. Mid winter is in July, the coldest month of the year. February is when Asunción switches on and celebrates Carnival in lively style and other important days on the Paraguayan calendar other than Christmas, New Year's Day and Easter, fall in February, honouring the patron saint of Paraguay with Dia de San Blas, June with Paz del Chaco, the end of the Chaco War, and August with the Fundación de Asuncion, the founding of Asuncion. |
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