Country Info
- Asuncion
- Capital
- Guarani (PYG)
- Currency
- 5,734,139
- Population
- PY
- Country Code
Asuncion Slideshow
Asuncion
Travel Blogs from Asuncion, Paraguay
Center of Visual Arts
The Center of Visual Arts includes the Museo de Barro (Museum of Clay/Pottery) and the Museo de Arte Indigina (Museum of indigenous ...
Rohayhu PY
... nbsp; I read that somewhere... Next time ya'll hear from me I will be living in the 600,000 person metropolis of Asuncion. Hope Thanksgiving was great and that you are enjoying winter, as I melt in the PYan heat. Did I mention the PC ...
ankles and nandu kavaju AKA tarantula
Just when I was getting excited about playing sports, I go and get myself injured. No worries...I'm mostly recovered now...just a nice, swollen, discolored ankle. I mean in all the years I played sports in the states, I never had anything ...
Can't leave without first getting parasites!
I have been in Asuncion today all day. I am trying to get the last little bit of clearance needed in order for them to sign off on my departure. However, it doesn't look like I will be coming home anytime soon. You know...you just can't come to a third ...
Ankunft in Asuncion
... noch mal etwas anderes: Bettelnde Kinder, streunende Hunde, einige wenig vertrauenswürdige Militärs und jede Menge Dreck. Kein Zweifel: Paraguay ist ein armes Land. Das äussert sich dann auch irgendwie in meiner Unterkunft, mit der ich mich aber wohl ...
Quince
du da du da du da du da duuuuuh i am sitting at the counter... remember that old school song, it is playing at the internet spot! the guy who works here thinks i am nuts because i am singing and dancing in my chair, just a little... i´m ...
Hospital Bautista
Evening ladies and gentlemannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn! I am writing to you all from the fantabulous Peace Corps office here in Asuncion, Paraguay! I just left the hospital after two nights and am finally feeling well enough to move around. I ...
The List!
... 3 months more I have in PY. Padded envelopes have been the best arrivals. Keep packages lightweight, under 4 lbs. You can send them to: Carin Paupore PCV La Colmena 4470 Paraguay South America Thanks everyone! ...
Asunción
... a woman from the U.S. who teaches in the American school here, and am going to meet up with her and her Paraguayan boyfriend tonight. Tomorrow morning is the bus to Iguazu, where Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil meet at a spectacular series of ...
Day 20 - Crazy Days In Paraguay.
... to buy a couple of tasty beef (or at least we hoped it was beef!) kebabs.So now we are in Asuncion, the capital. Here, as with everywhere else in Paraguay, it just seems like nobody ever has anything to do. So many people are just sitting around, in ...
The Game
... game wouldn't start until around 10PM local time I ventured out the next morning in the 105 degree temperatures to see the city of Asuncion. While the city is spread out the historical area was quite easily covered in a few hours. I made my usual rounds ...
Hoping to Get Some Pictures Up...
I hope that I am going to be able to upload some pictures ...
Things you might be curious about.
... I haven't taken pictures yet, because I don't want to pull out my camera yet. Allthough my family is pretty well off for Paraguay, I think, so it probably wouldn't be an issue. At schoo, we have our own little farm and now our own vegetable garden. ...
Journée bonus au Paraguay!!!!
... (lieu pas précisé) en fait, on était sensé changer d'avion vers 2h du mat' on atterit donc à...Assomption, capitale du Paraguay. une partie des passagers descend là, ceux qui sont en transit pour La Paz sont pris à part....l'avion pour La Paz est ...
soja
... got an iced mocha expresso drink...yums. We spent the rest of the day trying to figure out the crazy bus sytem in Asuncion, which translates to getting lost and unlost all day long...getting on a bus and heading the complete wrong direction and then ...
Cattle Farming
... (Fox De Igasu) I had to take the 10Hr bus ride through Brazil to get to Ponta Pora. Rather than the 5hr route through Paraguay. After several phone calls in the middle of the night and 3 buses later I arrived in Ponta Pora at 7am after leaving Igasu at ...
one more week!!!!
Howdy Folks, I think it´s been a while, I´ve been busy as! I made it back from my future site of Coronol Bogado safely last Monday, the trip was actually a bit quicker than I had anticipated! I had a great week or so down there and got to ...
Holidays!
Hope you all enjoyed your holidays. I got to celebrate Paraguayan style. It was different but good...missed my family in the states a lot but I got lots of love down here in my training community. Got to help set up and decorate the ...
Back in Latin America
... to both the Meiers and the Konkols, is the illiteracy or near-illiteracy of most of the people outside Asuncion. There are 2 languages in Paraguay--Spanish and Guarani. Everyone speaks Guarani as their heart language, but there is no education in it, so ...
Viva Paraguay
Well, we (me and my new travel buddy David, a fellow backpacker from Belgium) crossed over the border to paraguay and into the spanish speaking area. Finally I can use all the Spanish i learnt from all those climbing trips. "Hola Que tal, dos cervesa por ...
asuncion
... y i'm writing from the pc office in asuncion, you know what that means? i have air conditioning! i'm just outside of asuncion in Lambare for the next few days, well three nights on my first pcvolunteer visit, which means i'm out living with ...
First entry!
hey all! thanks for logging in! here´s the low down on life in paraguay so far... so i´ve survived my first week in south america...outhouse...bucketbaths and all. i think i´m actually getting better at it if that is at all ...
Settling in ...
... Gefühl. Die sehen eher aus wie bewaffnete Schwerverbrecher, die eine Uniform geklaut haben. Trotzdem ist ein Edelviertel in Paraguay ein bisschen anders ... Unmengen streunender Hunde, die bevorzugt am frühen Morgen unterwegs sind und die mich zu ...
The Big Time
Hola, I´m finally here physically and mentally... Made it to Crnl Bogado last night around 10pm and woke up early this morning to present myself to the town as their fresh and new PCV... Today Bogado is celebrating their anniversary as a town, ...
Religious capital and problems in the border
... all Paraguay and other countries, go to say their prayers to the Virgin. It's the most important religious center in Paraguay. I visited the famous basilica, where I took a very interesting guided tour around the gigantic church, where they told me the ...
Working with NGOs in Paraguay
... can provide. However, not all work with NGOs is as easily completed as the work I've completed with Guyra Paraguay. I'm currently working a great deal with Tierranuestra and Oñondivepa, an NGO from Carapegua, on the implementation of an ...
Asunción
Hola from Asunción, Paraguay After a short flight from Rio Monday morning we landed in Paraguay. The cool rainy weather was quite a change from the hot, sunny weather we left behind in Brasil. I think we are all excited about being able to ...
Paraguay
Cheerios Folks, I made it safely to Paraguay and am in the internet cafe for just a few minutes with five of my host sisters, who are adorable. They take me everywhere and are teaching me heaps of Spanish every minute of the day, which is ...
casualties of travelling
Lost so far: - one earring. A nice pair, not happy. - one pair of sunglasses. I had anticipated losing a pair of sunglasses every three months so had brough four with me, because i am completely ridiculous at keeping hold of them. However apparently left ...