Articles tagged with "Paraguay"
Paraguay suits an unhurried trip. The country is compact, the major sights are close together, and the one thing that will shape your days is the heat rather than the altitude or the terrain.
Paraguay has little in the way of accessible infrastructure and a great deal of willingness to help. Planning around that difference is what makes a trip here work.
Paraguay is where an Indigenous language came through the colonial period as an official one. Travel here that means anything is travel that engages with that, and that is honest about what the record does not hold.
Paraguay's two largest gatherings could not be less alike. One is a stadium carnival in the summer heat at Encarnacion. The other is a December pilgrimage that people walk to.
Paraguay is the rare country where an Indigenous language holds official status alongside the colonial one and is in ordinary daily use. That fact explains more about the place than anything else you could be told.
Paraguayan cooking is built on maize and cassava rather than on wheat and potato, and it is one of the most distinctive and least known cuisines on the continent.
The cited advice for Paraguay names border departments, an armed group and a pattern of road blockades. It does not advise against travel to any part of the country, and that distinction is worth stating exactly.
Paraguay runs on buses. The long distance network is better than visitors expect, the city network is harder to use than it looks, and the crossing into Brazil is the one journey with a trap in it.
Most of what you need in Paraguay follows from two facts: it is hot and humid for much of the year, and the places worth walking have almost no shade. The rest is the cold snap nobody expects.
Paraguay uses the guarani, not the US dollar, which separates it from three of its neighbors in this region. Cards work in the cities. The risk is not theft at a machine so much as a false note handed to you in the street.