Asuncion Hotels - Reviews and Rates

After a busride of 5 hours I arrived in the capital of Paraguay, Asuncion. This time I was well on time for my bus because the hour changed here to summerhour, damn I could of slept an hour more :-( It was getting dark so I checked in in an hotel near the busterminal. The day after I went back to the station to arrange my bus to Curitiba, Brazil...

A crazy few days in Paraguay so far, where it seems that 90% of the population do not have jobs and just sit around all day drinking some kind of herbal tea, while the other 10% are taxi drivers.Taxi amigo?We got the cheaper `semi rapid` bus to Asuncion, to save money. We soon started wishing we had forked out the extra 50p or whatever it was to...

After a rest day we decided to finally have a proper look at Asuncion. Colonial architecture, history, art and craft are all on show.

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 traditional Paraguayan pesebre (manger for the nativity scene). Lots of good food...champagne...and dancing of cou...

Schon die Fahrt nach Asuncion, der Hauptstadt Paraguays, hat all unsere Vorahnungen bestaetigt. Paraguay ist ein absolute chaotisches Land. Fuer nichts beruehmt, fuer nichts bekannt, aber absolut liebenswert! Wir haben nicht allzuviel erwartet, da alle, die schonmal hier waren - und das sind nicht sehr viele - uns gesagt haben, dass es einfach n...

It turns out that living on the brink of being a social outcast is par for the course in Peace Corps. People in our community are incredibly kind to us - we receive gifts of food on a weekly basis, invitations to lunch and to booze it up with neighbors, and challenges on the volleyball court. Still, sometimes we just can't shake the vague feelin...

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 world country and not get some parasites....what would that be like? It's just jiardia...the d...

Yesterday was by far the most exciting day we have had since arriving in Paraguay. After 8 weeks of waiting, training, and guessing, we finally got assigned to the site where we will be working for the next two years. Typically, it's opposite of what I expected, which was an assignment to a place on a flat, featureless, treeless plain, as is com...

The cheapest flight(s) for us to get from La Paz, Bolivia, to Rio de Janeiro was to fly La Paz - Cochabamba - Santa Cruz - Asuncion - Sao Paolo - Rio. So we get to thge airport at 5 am, and after a few flights (and an 8hr wait in Cochabamba, we´re heading to Asuncion. Couldnt see it in my Lonely Planet map of Bolivia, so i ask the woman sitting ...

That phenomenal feeling of euphoria on finally reaching a stretch of smooth, straight road was unfortunately short-lived. Having replenished our gas tank and purchased what appeared to be a month's supply of water, we soon found ourselves feeling rather bored. Instead of experiencing an adrenalin rush each time we pushed our way successfully thr...