Have Fantastic Holidays amid the Contrasting Scores of Paraguay

Paraguay has many contrasts in its name – rural but advanced, poor but still prosperous, naturally blessed but artificially alluring, running horses and carts but also driving Mercedes Benz, and working artisans’ shops but running flashy shopping centers in paraguay. No matter how diverse the environs are, traveling is easily and always comfortable in any of its region, be it Jesuit ruins in rural villages, rich colonial cities like Asunción, subtropical rainforests, or wild North Paraguay.

Paraguay Tourist Attractions

Asuncion

This paraguay is a tough capital to start but a mind-blowing one with original colonial buildings, global cuisine, sheltered plazas, flashy shopping malls, and inviting people. All this pros cover up its cons – dengue mosquitoes, diesel-emitting buses, and cruel heat. Here, we visited the following places in paraguay.

• Casa de la Independencia:
  Built in 1772, this is the most ancient building in the city. It was precisely here that the Paraguayans affirmed independence in 1811. Today, there is an old-fashioned museum exhibiting furniture, coins, and copies of speeches with descriptions and details in Spanish only.

• Catedral Metropolitana:
  Located at the southeast tip of Plaza Constitucion, this is the 19th century building offering a close by museum.

• Centro Cultural Manzana de la Rivera:
  Located across the street from the Palacio de Gobierno, this is a complex of eight multi-colored and rejuvenated houses. Among them, the most ancient one is the Casa Viola built in 1750 A.D. offering the Museo Memoria de la Ciudad holding the history of city’s metropolitan progress.
• Museo Boggiani:
  This systematic museum hosts maximum feather art items belonging to the Italian ethnographer Guido Boggiani, the man who performed the fieldwork with the Chamacoco Indians of the Río Paraguay. To reach this worthy museum, you need to take up the 45 minutes bus ride.
• Museo de Historia Natural:
  This is a spectacular museum especially because of its exhibit of insects, among which one of them boasts 274 mm of wingspan. To reach here, from the city centre, catch the direct bus 44-B (‘Artigas’) from Oliva and 15 de Agosto.
• Museo del Barro:
  Located in east of the center to the south off Callejon Canada in a modern structure, this museum exhibits many almost the whole lot right from latest paintings to pre-Columbian and local crafts to political cartoons of leading Paraguayans. To reach here, catch bus no 30 from Oliva and get off at Av Molas López.
• Museo Etnográfico Andrés Barbero:
  This free anthropological and archaeological museum exhibits local devices, ceramics, weavings, fine photographs, and maps informing the location of each item.
• Panteón de los Héroes:
  Here, you will come across the relics of the former president Francisco Solano López and other main figures of the country’s tragic wars – both protected by a guard. After every eight days, the guard changing ceremony takes place.

• Parque Carlos Antonio Lopez:
  This is located high above the city that offers some magnificent views of the city.
• The Botanical Gardens:
  These are located in a previous property of the Lopez family on the Paraguay River.

The Chaco

The area is extensive – 61 percent of the country’s land, but the population here is quite less – only 3 percent of the total population. Covering mainly empty plains and forests, the Low Chaco is accessible from Asunción via a drive, which is full of palm forests and marshes. Mennonites of German ancestry form the only well settled community in this entire region with set farms, agriculture, and own schools. Here, we explored some major national parks of the country – the Defensores del Chaco, Tifunque, Enciso, and Cerro Cora along with the protected forests in Mbaracayu and Nacunday holding more than 600 species of birds, 200 species of mammals, and many reptiles and amphibians. This region is the second largest forest area on the planet. It was really satisfying for me as I am a great fan of ecotourism in paraguay.

To the northeast of Chaco, we also visited the major paraguay tourist attraction – Iguazú Falls for its scenic descent.

Best Time to Visit Paraguay

Winter:
May to September as summers are prickly hot

Paraguay Accommodation

• Asunción Palace Hotel
• Hotel Embajador
• Hotel Miami
• Hotel Preciado
• Plaza Hotel