General Info

If you have a Garmin Nuvi GPS and their Mapsource software you can load the only available autorouting map of Paraguay into your GPS. Look on the internet for Proyecto Mapear. It is a free download and covers Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay (even though it does not state it covers Paraguay). Vers 9. 4 is the latest. I used it last year for 2 months with a hire car and it is pretty good.

I also have uploaded a file of Points of Interest in Paraguay. It has all the privados I have been to or I have been able to find the addresses and some of the short term motels. It also has a lot of non-mongering tourist stuff, and stuff of interest to me. It doesn't have that many clubs, casinos or bars. At least it could be useful as a starting point. The Garmin POIloader program will load it straight into the GPS.

I have a little 3" Nuvi 2250 GPS that I carry when I travel which fits discretely in my pocket.

If you are looking for a good hotel near many casa Hotel Preciado can suit for you.

Azara 840 ([url]www.hotelpreciado.com[/url])

It s well located, clean and safe. They have wifi, swimming pool and it s include breakfast.

I walk always more or less 10 min to find a casa, which is close (exept deseos).

Price go to 150KGs for less than 3 days.

110 for more than 6 days.

90000 for more than 10 days.

This option can be a good choice if you don t want to rent an appartment.

MR

Hello there,

I will be travelling to asuncion shortly, and was wondering weather all massage studios are in the centre of town. Does anyone know if there are also ohters in the areas shopping del sol?

Thanks for your commens.

Ale

Thanks a lot for the interesting take on Paraguay and lots of useful information. I hope that more people will share info here.

[QUOTE=Bobbybjack; 1030118]I have received tons of help from the forums, so I thought I would write a few things about Paraguay (I just spent a month there).

The weather is excellent during the winter. The lowest temperature I saw was 10C and the highest was 26C. The days are awesome. The people however are used to the inferno summers and thus overdress during the winter. I think anybody from North America would be fine in shorts and a shirt.

The best places for pros that I found were Thai on General Garay (I think its #534 or something). Noemi at "Estados Unidos 525" has a great girl during the days. Her name is Jesica. Petite but very dangerous natural curves (120000 Gurarani for an hour, thats about $25). Also Elite Producc on Cerro Cora 225 is always decent. However, on this trip the most attractive girls I found were at Egilia Ayala 326. It was a surprise to me because they don't announce on asunsex. The best place to find girls is still asunsex. Com. Py or hot. Com. Py. Just call the number of the agency provided and ask if your girl is available and the address. Warning: If you pick an 8 or 9 you might be waiting a long time at the house. I rather just pay the 300. 000 Guarani and have her go to the hotel. They will charge you $100 if you are foreigner.

You can find semi Pros at Toc Toc Bar, Arena & Cafe, and some at La Cubana and even Faces. One key to understanding Paraguay is that almost 99% of the women are semipros. Meaning that for $300 US or less, you can get models no problem.

Also I wouldn't recommend ever marrying a Paraguayan girl unless you can stash her away to your country. The culture is insane. Every man has 15 girlfriends and every woman has 10 boyfriends. Whether they are married or not, is irrelevant. I spent a month there and my phone would ring nonstop from pros and nonpros that I met there. Whether they had boyfriends or not, was irrelevant. Everybody in the country loves to pound, especially if you have money. Hope this report helped.[/QUOTE]

Don't buy into all that stuff.

Listen to a guy that lives here since almost 4 years.

Only Putas and very poor girls from the countryside will accept sex for money.

Paraguay isn't as cheap anymore, damn Inflation made living almost as expensive as North America now.

If you want beautiful normal girls you need to speak very good spanish, wear good clothes, have decent pick up skills, and know how to handle her shit tests.

Yea right, they get approached at least 5 times a day by local guys of any social class, rich and poor men, why should they pick the next best overweight or geeky and horny gringo?

U will only succeed if you have lots of experience with women in general.

Be careful with your money.

Saludos,

Manuel

[QUOTE=Alpha Alemáand; 1278300]

Paraguay isn't as cheap anymore, damn Inflation made living almost as expensive as North America now.[/QUOTE]Yes I see that. There is a new Agencia:Universitarias which quote 1 hora: Gs 600. 000 para la chica.

Incredible! More than 100€/1 hrs. OK chicas look georgous but come on. Same rate than Europe or Ukraine.

Yeah, I saw that. They can ask. So many other places, I figure that if anyone puts up a fuss, they'll drop the price fast enough

They can ask for 600k guarani all they want. I had the best time at PY Escorts for 150k for the hour, went back there three times. Big problem with hot. Com, they don't post addresses, and trying to understand the girls when you phone is not easy! Any updates on the addresses is always appreciated.

On this trip, more than three months elapse between my arrival and departure dates. My understanding is that there is a 90-day rule here just as in most countries, but I have had difficulty finding anything definitive on Paraguayan websites.

I am just beginning to investigate the best course of action. One idea would be to go to Posadas AR for a couple days. Does anyone know if I would have to pay the Argentina "reciprocity fee" (over $100 USA) if I walk across the bridge from Encarnacion to Posadas with my USA passport? Actually, I would like to visit both Encarnacion and Posadas, just to see what they are like. But I dislike paying a reciprocity fee.

I think that Brazil also charges a reciprocity fee, but a trip to Iguazu Falls on the Brazilian side would be fun too.

A friend here said that Paraguayan immigration might give me an extension beyond 90 days, so that is another option to look into. If anyone else has information or advice, I would appreciate it.

I will be leaving Paraguay for the States in May, but I am seriously thinking about getting a cedula for future extended trips, which takes months with much documentation, so I understand.

Also by the way, I have a Paraguay visa that is good for the life of my USA passport.

Thanks.

Let me start by saying that I'm no expert on this, having never set foot in Paraguay, though that is about to change. I have read that if you wish to stay in Paraguay longer than 90 days it is fairly easy to renew your tourist stamp. Paraguay likes to have foreigners in the country who will spend money. The extension fee is supposedly small. If you want to look into this you should go to Migraciones in Asuncion at Caballero No 201 e / Eligio Ayala.

In theory the reciprocity fee being charged US citizens for entry into Argentina is being charged at all points of access into the country whether by air, boat, car, etc. That went into effect as of January 7th of this year. Intelligence I've gathered indicates that collection is being widely enforced. I know it is at the border entry into Puerto Iguazu. If you do decide to go to Argentina and pay the reciprocity fee, make sure you pay it in advance online. Print out the receipt and bring it with you. That will help avoid delays at the border.

When going into Brazil to see Iguazu Falls, you'll need a VISA. You'll have to go to the Brazilian consulate in Asuncion to make the proper payments and jump through the appropriate hoops. The $160 cost is the same as the Argentine reciprocity fee.

Good luck whatever you decide. If it were me, I'd first ask for an extension since that is the least time-consuming and least costly by far.

VG.

[QUOTE=Riverm; 1395052]On this trip, more than three months elapse between my arrival and departure dates. My understanding is that there is a 90-day rule here just as in most countries, but I have had difficulty finding anything definitive on Paraguayan websites.

I am just beginning to investigate the best course of action. One idea would be to go to Posadas AR for a couple days. Does anyone know if I would have to pay the Argentina "reciprocity fee" (over $100 USA) if I walk across the bridge from Encarnacion to Posadas with my USA passport? Actually, I would like to visit both Encarnacion and Posadas, just to see what they are like. But I dislike paying a reciprocity fee.

I think that Brazil also charges a reciprocity fee, but a trip to Iguazu Falls on the Brazilian side would be fun too.

A friend here said that Paraguayan immigration might give me an extension beyond 90 days, so that is another option to look into. If anyone else has information or advice, I would appreciate it.

I will be leaving Paraguay for the States in May, but I am seriously thinking about getting a cedula for future extended trips, which takes months with much documentation, so I understand.

Also by the way, I have a Paraguay visa that is good for the life of my USA passport.

Thanks.[/QUOTE]

I did an extension of the visa in 2008 as part of the process of getting residency. Give yourself some time, at least a week I think. It was a pain. The procedure was; 1. Go to migraciones. They will tell you that the visa in your passport must be validated. 2, Copy the passport page and at least the visa page (they told me the whole book, but the rest was never requested. YMMV. You must take this to I think Exterior Relations building (they will tell you where). There, if I remember, they did not hold my passport, but merely stamped a validation stamp on a new page and filled it out in about an hour (I am not sure of this was all. I had to get something validated I think in this building for a cost of about G30000 at a window.) 3. After the visa was validated, back to migrationes where they put in a visa extension stamp on another new page (these are big form stamps). The cost of the extension was G200, 000 if I recall.

Actually. There is an idea that Paraguay is tourist friendly. Basically, it isn't but is improving but not very fast. Also, Paraguay has tons of money, and is rapidly getting richer, because of the high prices of commodities now. The problem is that all of the money is in the hands of the politicians, big landowners, and ruthless empresarios. There is a huge class difference here.

I have done the Encarnacion-Posadas run several times, the last in 2007. I always took a bus to Encarnacion and then a taxi over the bridge. It is a few kilometers from the bus terminal to Argentina. There is a local intenational bus from Encarnacion to Posadas, but the taxi is a lot more comfortable. The taxi to Posadas then was agout G45, 000.

I did an extension of the visa in 2008 as part of the process of getting residency. Give yourself some time, at least a week I think. It was a pain. The procedure was; 1. Go to migraciones. They will tell you that the visa in your passport must be validated. 2, Copy the passport page and at least the visa page (they told me the whole book, but the rest was never requested. YMMV. You must take this to I think Exterior Relations building (they will tell you where). There, if I remember, they did not hold my passport, but merely stamped a validation stamp on a new page and filled it out in about an hour (I am not sure of this was all. I had to get something validated I think in this building for a cost of about G30000 at a window.) 3. After the visa was validated, back to migrationes where they put in a visa extension stamp on another new page (these are big form stamps). The cost of the extension was G200, 000 if I recall.

Actually. There is an idea that Paraguay is tourist friendly. Basically, it isn't but is improving but not very fast. Also, Paraguay has tons of money, and is rapidly getting richer, because of the high prices of commodities now. The problem is that all of the money is in the hands of the politicians, big landowners, and ruthless empresarios. There is a huge class difference here.

I have done the Encarnacion-Posadas run several times, the last in 2007. I always took a bus to Encarnacion and then a taxi over the bridge. It is a few kilometers from the bus terminal to Argentina. There is a local intenational bus from Encarnacion to Posadas, but the taxi is a lot more comfortable. The taxi to Posadas then was agout G45, 000.

It turned out that a friend here happened to be going to Posadas, so I took the midnight bus with him to Encarnacion. We took a collectiva across the bridge. I hate lines, and it took about an hour to get through the line at the Argentina border. I had gone to the Argentinian consulate here in Asuncion before the trip, and they had strongly advised me to pay for the $160 reciprocity fee on-line by credit card. After waiting in the long line, the Argentinian customs officer let me through quite quickly after seeing and checking the print-out that I had gotten on-line. Then we took a taxi to downtown Posadas. The trip back into Paraguay the next day went quicker.

I was sorely disappinted by how difficult it was to find a chica in Posadas or in Encarnacion. They were both nice towns, cleaner that downtown Asuncion. You could say that Posadas was provincial chic, and Encarnacion had sidewalks without big holes and garbage. The women on the street and in the cafes and stores were gorgeous, but taxistas in both towns knew of no casas de las chicas except at dirty "motels" in remote and dangerous suburbs. La Mansion of Asuncion advertises an auxiliary site in Encarnacion. Taxistas don't know where it is. One finally found it (or at least we stood outside a house and rang its bell). But only a dog's feet could be seen from under the garage door. They did not answer their phone all day.

I enjoyed the bus trip back to Asuncion during the afternoon. It was good to see the countryside. But the best part was being back in a casa de las chicas by 7 PM. I do love these Paraguayan chicas (most of them anyway).

Thanks for the information about getting an extension on the 90-day stay. It could come in handy in the future.

I'm glad the trip to Posadas worked out ok. I agree it is hard to find chicas there. I had a good friend there, and spent over a year total. I made a few posts years ago. There are no bars, web sites, apartments, etc. There used to be a bar outside of town on R12, but it is probably closed now, and wasn't very good anyway.

I never found anything interesting in Encarnaciòand either. I am planning to go back one day because it is being totally restructured since they raised the level of the Yacyretà dam and flooded a good part of the town. They are now trying to focus on tourism. The town is still undergoing really major changes.

Sorry I was vague about the visa extension. I remember now the G30000? Deal was to get the Las Angeles consulate stamps on my birth certificate legalized in the same building. I had to leave it a few days and pay at a window in the basement.

I think I finally have a clear understanding of Paraguay's visa procedure. For a US citizen there are two ways to get an entry visa. Upon arrival if you do not have a current visa you are directed to a desk were you must pay $160. 00 us cash only. If you don't have enough cash you are directed to a ATM conveniently located near this desk. Ok so cash only $160. 00. This visa is only good for 90 days. Period. Now if you have the time you can fly to a city with an embassy or consulate and it will still cost you 160 us but buying the visa in person before your trip it will not expire until you renew your passport. I was in Paraguay 6 weeks ago and I have complained to every paraguay consulate I could reach and was told this is the law period. Paraguay does not want our business. Not much to do there anyway.