Organize your trip to Paraguay.
I’ve been getting lots of emails of people wanting to travel to Paraguay and I’m more than happy to help.
Very important tip: AIR FARE: Don’t get them online, they are too expensive. Ask your local Travel agency (you will find a list online or on local newspapers), just a regular old fashion Agency to get a quote of the prices, ask for specials
Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz and alike are good for domestic fairs but not for international ones.
Consider getting a free Advantage card (American Airlines) on www.aa.com there you can buy miles and travel using your miles (in low season a trip to Paraguay would cost about 40.000 miles) and most of the time its cheaper than a regular ticket with no miles and the advantage of traveling with miles is that you can change your returning date without penalties.
There are some things to keep in mind before you go: 1- Don’t forget to get a Visa and if you plan to go to Iguassu Fall you need a Visa for Brazil too.
2- Choose destination cities. A good combo is: Asuncion, San Bernardino, Ciudad del Este and Iguassu Falls (Brazilian side), Encarnacion to see the Jesuit Missions, among other interesting cities. Rental car is available and it costs about 50$ a day. (not very cheap)
3. Get around: By bus, by car, by plane? Driving there require special skills and everything you learned for driving test, ditch it, I wont work here!
4- Where to stay? hotel? hostel? Apart Hotel? (watch for my recommendations soon), I prefer to stay in a place with personality rather than an expensive chain hotel.
5- List of things to do in each city
6- It would be very nice to learn some words in Spanish and get a dictionary, (people are very patient and will try to help)
I will have a downloadable Spanish Language map soon, I’m working on it.
