Asuncion

Asuncion report

No more than 15 street-girls in downtown Asuncion, youngish, but not overly beautiful, I would say 2 or three 8s, the rest 6s and 7s. Surely, a previous poster who reported dozens of SWs was not hallucinating, so where have all the girls gone? Maybe to Buenos Aires. A taxi driver told me "Argentines drove by and took the girls". This makes sense: there's five times more money to be made in prostitution in Argentina than in Paraguay and the Paraguayan authorities are so inept and corrupt they would turn a blind eye to a large-scale draining of this kind. The few girls still operating could be the ones waiting for a passport.

Taxi drivers told us about a street called something like "Mariscal Lopes", but it's ten miles from downtown, so I didn't check that.

Stayed at Margarita Hotel (is it just in front of Granados?). Good hotel, but, like everywhere alse in South America, there's is an additional charge for letting girls into the room. Asuncion the cheapest city on Earth? Not as far as hotels and food is concerned (I payed 35 euros a night at Mercury Hotel in Sao Paulo and rodizio-type eating is much inferior in Asuncion than at similar places in Brazil).

Went to Karen's one night. Four good-looking girls (8s) were there. Went with one to one of the rooms for 230 Gs. I remember paying four times less for the cover charge in Karen's than what one of the posters had to pay. Those guys decidedly apply prices according to what language you speak and what flag you come waving. By the way, I never saw as many four-wheel vehicles and expensive car in the streets anywhere else in the world. What is this all about? This is suppposed to be one of the poorest countries in SA! There were also many businesses advertising good exchange rates in and from all sorts of currencies. My hunch is that this has become THE place for drug cartels to conduct the financial side of their business. There's a sort of relaxed, confident "Cali" air about the place (Cali 10 years ago, before they cracked down on the Cartel, not the wretched, struggling Cali of today).

Noticias is the newspaper with the most girl adds. I tried calling two of the numbers. They were numbers advertising "normal" Paraguayan prices, not number with "US" prices of 100, 200, 300 dollars. The girls they sent me were a joke. Old and ugly although the adds advertised all sorts of characteristics like "curvaceous bodies, angel faces". The girls themselves didn't seem to be aware of the false pretences under which they were sent to me.

I rebooked my flight for Sao Paulo, staying only two instead of eleven days as originally planned. Indeed, the night-life in Asuncion is so small it hardly bears mentioning at all. Even in places like Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) or Cotonou (Benin), where I would not advise anyone to go only for sex, there's ten times more pussy than in Asuncion.

Don't go unless you have some other business to attend there, you'll be disappointed!

xxl

A SIDE TRIP TO PARAGUAY – 9-14 DECEMBER

Well after 5 days in Buenos Aires (see trip report), I needed a break. So I went to Iguazu Falls for a day/night to recover, before a final few days mongering in Asuncion. Iguazu Falls are worth a visit. I stayed on the Brazilian side and noticed some SW along the main boulevards in the evening, after about 11pm but was determined to rest before hitting Asuncion. One other comment….avoid Cuidad del Este, what a dump, and it looked dangerous as hell too.

Paraguay is a truly 3rd world country. The contrast with Argentina is immense. The rich are very rich and the poor are very poor. In contrast with Buenos Aires, there’s little to see or do touristwise, not much in the way of architecture, and the main reasons for going must be mongering and/or business-preferably both. I’m sorry to (respectfully) disagree with xxl, but my impression of the city was that it was delapitated and in slow but terminal decline. I arrived at night, and the hotel I had chosen out of Lonely Planet had closed due to lack of business. I was told that many other hotels had done the same, as tourists/business travellers had stopped coming, and everyone told me of the decline in the economy, and I saw almost no tourists the whole time I was there. I even had a surreal conversation while trying to buy Listerine…which I went to several pharmacies to try and buy without success and was told that the ‘Listerine man had decided not to come to Paraguay anymore.’ This time of year it is also brutally hot…35 celcius which I think is 110F. So, all in all, as a city it cant compare to BA.

It does however have two compensation
- the chicas
- the prices

One recurring theme on the Argentinian board (one of the things that first sparked my interest in a trip to Paraguay) was how many of the chicas that guys raved about were Paraguayas. And there are many many beautiful girls in Paraguay. And because it is so ridiculously cheap, any gringo is loaded.

So, to the chicas.


INTERNET GIRLS
I only tried Asunsex. The girl is called Vero (Veronica). She works at an apartment
Estrella 364, 2nd floor. 150,000G the hour.
You go into a room and the gay ‘madam’ introduces you to the chicas. There were 5, 3 of which I would do. One looked like she’d be better in the sack than Yenny but I still went for her because of wanting to fuck her for months from looking at her pictures on the internet, which were fairly accurate. The experience was average – pretty much how Scoropio described it, she’s willing but she still has to learn.



STREET GIRLS
For me it was really an amazing scene. I’m not an experienced monger, but I thought the street scene was excellent. From Monday-Friday, after 8pm, you can stroll from the Plaza de los Heroes to Colon, up and down Estrella and Palma which are 2 parallel streets and take your pick from 15-30 girls. There are more girls in the Plaza itself, and also some girls on Colon. About 10 of which I would do, and 3 of which I did, at 50,000G for ½ hour. What a bargain...US$8.50 for a fuck....less than the cost of a vodka martini in Manhattan. The rooms in the hotels they take you to are the usual dives, and 1 of them just lay there like a wet fish, but 1 was pretty good, and one good. I enjoyed chatting with the girls on the street, having a cigarette with them, after a few days it was a laugh to stroll by them (though I had to ignore them if my amigovia was with me-see below). There were far less girls, maybe 1/3 as many on Sat night as Friday night, and I’m told virtually nobody (‘only the dirty and desperate ones’ I was told) on a Sunday night, so theres no point being in Asuncion at the week end, unless you have a chica.

CHICA BARS
I thought these were all a complete waste of time…Karens, Playboy, Cafecitos, Morocha, none of them seemed much good, and the girls could have easily been the same girls as were hanging out down the street for a fraction of the price.

AGENCIA HAREN
Of course we are all in debt to Scorpio for finding this excellent place.
Avda Rodriguez de Francia 226 c/ Yegros
It’s a bit of a trek from the centre, you are best off taking a taxi and it doesn’t look like much from the outside…go upstairs and it’s the door on the left.
Taking Scorpios advice, I went for Sonia and I was not disappointed…100,000G was unbelievable value. I always go for CBJ (cant be too careful) and she gave great head followed by excellent sex, multiple positions, DATY, DFK, really a good experience. One of the best I had in my entire trip. Wish I could have repeated with this girl and there were some other girls I wouldn’t have minded doing too.

NEWSPAPER GIRLS
The reason I didn’t ispend alot more time at Agencia Haren is because I met an amigovia, who took up the rest of my time in Asuncion. In some ways it was a shame not to try some more girls as that was the purpose of my trip to Paraguay, but to be honest it was actually a relief, and the sex just got better each time. I discovered her through a newspaper ad, and after a couple of sessions in the apartment where she worked I got her number and we started meeting outside her apartment, and for the last 1 .5 days she stayed at my hotel. Shes a student, freelancing to raise the cash for the next term, and it was magic. She wasn’t the most beautiful girl I slept with on this trip, or the most experienced, but the sex was just fanstastic. Pure GFE. The only thing she wouldn’t do is take it up the arse, and I think she would do next time (hopefully). Spent the rest of my time with this gal, and believe me it was a pleasure. I’ll probably never go back to Asuncion, but will stay in touch and have fond memories of my sweet young Paraguaya.

As a result, my investigations into the mongering scene were not as thorough as anticipated, but although this city cannot compete with BA, its an interesting side trip. Finally, I’d like to thank Scorpio for his excellent and highly informative posts, which were one of the things that inspired me to go.

One final thought....South American girls....simply the best in the world.

Magic Hat.

MagicHat,

I am very glad that you've enjoyed your trip to Asuncion.
Merry Christmas from Bangkok !

Scorpio

Happy Christmas to you too Scorpio, from London. Cant compare with Bangkok...hope you have a great trip and look forward to your report.

all the best

Magic Hat.

Does anyone have information regarding Vero on Asunsex.com?

TIA,

Dogus

Does anyone have additional contact information for Brandon with Siren Models. I have been trying to get in touch for several weeks without any luck. Prior to this his contact information seemed to work fine.

I would like to try out his sevice and report back by mid Feb. so any help would be appreciated.

TIA,

BTW- Saw the previous reports on Vero. Thanks.

Dogus

Fellow mongers,

Prior to a short trip to Asuncion earlier this month, I tried to get some action from Brandon (sirenmodels) by emailing his hotmail account. He did respond but said that action from his "models" was impossible on Friday and Saturday nights. Go figure!

So on my own I set out to explore a little of Asuncion. As my hotel was in the middle of the centro, there was no problem walking around the main streets and Plaze del Heroes. There were about 20 girls hanging about on the better lit parts of the circle. A few lookers but all kind of hard looking. Spoke to a few to feel out the situation, 50,000G for 1 hour and 10,000G for the room at the local motel around the corner. Took a drive around in a car to see the other, more dimly lit portions of the "paseo". Many more girls but need to stop and get them in the light to check them well. Also the farther you get from the Plaza the greater the chance the "girl" with have some extra equipment.

As I am not a big SW fan, continued around till I spotted the Playboy Club up a side street (interestingly enough, on the side of the Vice Presidential office building). About 10 girls on Thursday and 16 on Friday. Mostly 5-6 and few 8s. Mixed young and older. 50US all night with 10US exit.

The problem with Asuncion now is the new Ley Seca, which limits clubs, nightclubs, discos and bars to operation only to 1:00AM M-T and 2:00AM on Fridays and Saturdays. Greatly limits your abilty to hit more than one or two spots.

Hotel desk guy said he could get girls for 50, 100, 150US as needed with the top end being "model" types. I don't like to buy anything sight unseen.

Good luck,

Tictoc

Still no contact from Brandon via e-mail. I have also tried calling a couple of time with no success. If anybody has had more recent contact please let me know. I will try to get in touch while in country.

Either way I will be in Asuncion for a couple of nights. The first two of a three country (Paraguay, Argentina & Venezuela) trip. I will try to check out as many new things as possible while hopping around SA. I hope to have some good information for everyone.

Dogus

Asuncion: the post curfew nightlife

Asuncion’s Mayor enforced a 1 AM/2AM curfew on alcohol and nightlife beginning January 1st. There are astounding results in terms of death rates reduction with figures 45 % lower in January 2004 compared with Jan. 2003.

Of course, our girlfriends are suffering of a very short span of time to make business, in a city where the clubs and the street begins to swing past 10 Pm. One of them told me: “If you are not done at 10:30, you begin to feel that you’ll have trouble to pay your rent and food next day” Before the curfew, many locals (their main source of income, tourism is not significant in Paraguay) ended their daily bachelor parties at 2 or 3 am by going to blow up the night in the clubs or the boliches.

I asked my GF why they didn’t try to begin earlier, but she told me that it seems to be a previous “reverse curfew” that bans unmoral activities before 9 PM. But the main reason is the local male custom of late parrandas.

I stayed now for a week and went from the first day with my GF Silvia, found in Playboy Club (see August report). Two days later, she promised to come to sleep with me (all the girls I knew in Asunción seem to be mesmerized to spend all the night in the Granados Park, and I always treat them with a dinner by the pool which seems to enhance the effect) but she couldn’t make it on time, so I strolled a little bit in Palma and Estrella and found that I was missing a lot of action. The quality of street girls seemed to be better on average, not only in terms of lookers, but of dressing and general appearance. A perfect 8, similar to those found in Cattos or Hooks (not so well dressed or elegants) quoted me 50.000 Guaranies (8,5 US) for unlimited time. I passed but the worm was already in my mind. The next day I dismissed Sillvia and went to Café Cito and Puerto Madero (Colon and Palma) at 10:30 pm.

At less there were 30-40 girls ranging from 18 to 30 and looks from 5 to a few 9’s . A lot of smiles, flirting and sweet small talk. Sat on a table in the street of Puerto Madero near a group that seemed to be promising. A nice fake blond was my target and I was her also. Soon she came (a 7, late 20’s, a few crooked teeth, big smile and a body to die for). She was intelligent, nice and a pro that knows how to show you that she is nearly an amateur. I liked, but not quite sure if she could be a good lay (hardened pro?? She will rush me… Ummh) But finally decided to give it a try. I usually give about 20 to 30 dollars to Silvia, so I invited Lis (not her name, if you want name and phone number, PM me) but told her that I was out of cash and I had only 30 dollars. She said that that wasn´t a problem, she wanted to stay with me and know the Granados Park. Didn´t negotiate time, positions, anything, and I was prepared to a standard session. She happened to be a jewel, beautiful body, a lot of fun, and the best woman I have ever had in bed. Stayed all night and in her dreams (supposedly) began to moan and caressed me to the critical level, at least three times (a surprise to me, I’m ussually a one-shot man).

So I had to divide and negotiate between my old and faithful Silvia and my new love, staying alternative nights with each. The problem was when I called an internet friend (whom I didn’t know personally) and she asked me to meet and stay with me all the night. Things began to complicate and I finally decided to stick to bigamous condition (my internet friend wasn’t that pretty), which Silvia and Lis accepted without question.

Summary: curfew has driven nice girls to the street scene, not only to the sidewalks, but to the cafes and karaokes, quantity, quality and price are unbeatable. Many have returned from Buenos Aires and try to survive in low cost, low standards Paraguay. They are usually sweet and very willing, they lack the refinement of many Buenos Aires girls, but compensate with their sweetness and lack of commercial instinct. This said, of course is better to taste the waters a little bit first and make reality checks. Compared with Buenos Aires they can qualify as Clarin girls, with the advantage of seeing the goods just by walking a little bit. The cafes at the corner of Palma y Colon are reasonable hunting places, but you can get good pieces from the corners and the sidewalks. Prices are ridiculously low even compared to S.American cities. Paraguayan women are used to Paraguayan machistas and will give you a big reward if you make them feel like a princess for a night. Try it, don’t be shy with your English, use body language and you’ll not be disappointed.

Just want to add an update on Asuncion:

The SW scene on Palma, Colon, and neighboring streets is still in full swing. The girls are spread out about 2-3 per block and on the corners alone or groups of 2. A stroll around last night reinforced that they are young 18-24, and cute (they really are). The nice blond Andrea asked 100K guaranies (17US) for an hour. I could have probably bargained her down, but come on...I´m not that much of a dog. GFE and whatever I asked. Thanks for your reports which set me on the proper path.

Steven

The Harem brothel is still active. See Scorpio´s day 3 report for the info. When I checked, there were 5 girls, 2 of them doable. 60K guaranies ($10US) for half hour ( thats all thats necessary), or 100K for an hour. They have a sister site at Capitan Figari 971. Phone 223 431. Same set up.

When looking for SW on Colon, best to be right on time (10-11 PM). Too early and they are not there yet. Too late and you miss the best picks. Prices 50K to 100K ($8-17 US). They are young, cute and mostly good attitudes. The Hotel on the corner of Palm and Colon is a good choice to stay. It´s called the Gran Armele. $25 US a night with $15 charge for guest. Rooms are adequate.

Asuncion Trip 5

It is true that there is a large number of 4WDR vehicles here. Remember that there are very many unpaved streets in the greater Asuncion area and there are very few PAVED roads outside of the cities. An SUV with big tires is THE vehicle to have here, even if it takes a lifetime to pay for it.

The availability of any product cannot be assumed here. There is no Listerine(but which I finally found), there are no inhalors for colds, there is no sugar-free Halls Mentho-Lyptus for colds. It is best to bring an adequate supply of toiletries or especially OTC products that you prefer. The availability of products in the pharmacies is limited, especially in cities outside of Asuncion.

I have looked in the papers for sex ads. The most ads are in Noticias, by far. ABC and Ultima Hora are useless. I have checked accross 2 or 3 days and they are mostly the same advertisers, with maybe 4 or 5 ads different. I have not called any, but it is a general assortment of massage and other sensual pleasure offers. From content and tone, I assume most are lying about looks, etc. as usual. Perhaps about 50 ads total.

The Sunday Popular had about 45 ads of the same nature as Noticias. I did not check to see how many are also in Noticias.

I did not look further in any of the clubs after the bad experience at Playboy. There are only 2 other clubs anyway, Karim and Le Bacan. I can't imagine the club action being better than the street action here, and is certainly more expensive. Generally, the price for street action is G50k per hour as a minimum, asked by most. Some may try for higher, but I was not quoted higher. G150k was quoted to me a couple times till 6AM.

There are a couple of places that I would have liked to check, but I am seeing the favorita every day until I leave and can't. Pirata Bar is at the corner of Ayolas and Benjamin Constante(2nd street from Palma toward the Independencia area). Africa Disco-Pub is at the corner of 15 de Agosto and Presidente Franco(1st street from Palma toward the Independencia area. They appear to be disco/bars, and large. Both are only open Fri-Sat, and I did not know of them when I had more free time. I think I would walk to both of them, walking down the cross street from Palma. Use normal caution.

I have noticed that a few of the SW have husbands/boyfriends watching them from the shadows. And sometimes, he is sitting in a car accross the street toward traffic, so he can follow/get license number of cars that pick up his girl. I assume this is some form of security, and not a set-up for a rip-off, but I don't like it. The safest thing to do by far is take the woman to your hotel. Then you have security essentially on your side to help. If you go to a sex hotel of any kind, they will tend to be on her side in any problem.

The bars on Colon(Cafecito's and Puerto Madero) are still going pretty much as described in other posts. The cheap action described on Oliva near Colon is actually a pool table bar in an old store. There are several of these in the area(Cafecito's is one also, there are a couple on Estrella within 2 blocks of Colon and a couple more on Colon) and most have women available much of the time. Generally, if you see one of these run down, open front bars with women in them, they are on the program. It can take some guts but if they respond to any gesture of contact from the STREET, it is virtually certain.

NEW INFORMATION on the above. I have walked the block of Oliva between Colon and Hernandarias(the next block walking against traffic on Oliva) several times around 12:30AM and never noticed anything. There is both a dry cleaner and a good lavenderia on Hernandarias between Colon and Haeda I use. Then, I happened to walk this block around 4:30PM on a Wednesday. On the left hand side, walking against traffic from Colon, there are 6 brothels with open doors in a row, leading to the corner at Hernadarias. It was obvious because the women were all waiting and called to me as I passed. The one at the corner of Oliva and Hernandarias seemed to have 2-3 decent looking ones(6's) as I passed. The rest had to be 3-6's, but I bet the prices are very low. It could be they are waiting for the men to get off work at 5:00, I don't know. I am not planning to walk here after dark, but I probably could. I walk Colon crossing Oliva a lot at night.

The more I walk around the area north of Colon and west of Oliva, the more I see of these open bars with women. Diaz has a couple, and Hernandarias has a couple. They are probably around that whole area of 100+ square blocks. They have action in the 4:00PM timeframe, at least. The quality I have seen has been low, 3-6's. There may be some diamonds in there, but it could take all of one's time trying to find them. There are also private apartments with no advertising. My current favorita started working in the trade in a house in Ciudad del Este with an aunt. But the advertising for the house was word of mouth.

I have had no problems using the ATM machines at Citibank and ABN-AMRO. So the others are probably good, also. I have used 2 different ATM cards.

For restaurants, I have seen no good restaurants. There may be something in the better suburbs. The Granados Park and Las Margaritas hotels have restaurants, but I don't hold much with hotel restaurants. I like meat and salad. They don't have all you can eat buffets like Buenos Aires, but they do have restaurants with food by the kilo for lunch. The large supermarkets in the suburbs generally have one of these. The food is usually a decent selection of basic stuff. The hours for all are about 12-1:30. They are open to 2:30, but the pickings get very slim about 2:00. In el centro, there is one inside Asuncion Center(Oliva & 15 de Agosto) G22K/Kg, Negrita(Diaz & Ayolas) G20K/Kg, O'Leary Bar(O'Leary nr Palma) G18K/Kg, and Rodizio(Palma nr 14 de Mayo) G30K/Kg. Rodizio is open till 3:30, and generally has a good selection to the end. It is also open again at night, starting about 6:30.

In conclusion, don't come here for the hobby. You will be bored to tears most of the time. If you have some other reason to come here, then it can be a nice diversion. I have come to suspect that Paraguay instituted the Visa requirement simply because the tourist support situation was deteriorating and they can't support a bunch of wide-eyed tourists, and don't have the money to develop tourism. So they put in the Visa to limit tourism to the more hardy and self-sufficient. I have seen mostly backpacker types at the hotel, many from Canada. There is a lot of undeveloped country here.

I have spent much more time here than I planned(7 weeks) because of the woman I met. Without that, I would probably have left after 2 weeks.

Asuncion Trip 4

On a Wed, I took a 2.5 hour taxi tour to check out the streets at night in the greater Asuncion area. I paid the cab driver G40k/hr, the same as another taxista for the day tour. I chose this taxista because his pronunciation of spanish was far better than most. He studied engish a little and spent a few months in the US once. With most taxistas, their spanish is so bad I really can't talk with them. There was a soccer game on TV between Brazil and Argentina that night, and the cabbie said this would cause fewer people in the street.

The night was chilly, in the mid 60's, not cold. The weather should not have been a great deterrent.

We started from the Asuncion Palace at 8:00PM. The cabbie thought it was a little early so we headed for the Omnibus Terminal at Fernando de la Mora and Republica Argentina first. There was nothing in the Mercado 4 area of Pettirossi. Pettirossi is deserted at night. There was nothing interesting until we got near Carlos Centurion in F. de la Mora. I saw 4 chicas together sitting on the sidewalk, maybe 5-6's. I saw 5-6 more near Tarumà, the next block. This area is 6-8 blocks before the terminal, about 6km out from el centro. There were many people in the street around the terminal, and it was hard to sort out, but I suspect there were probably more chicas in that area, near the old hotels. This is not a good area, but is probably safe for a city aware person.

We proceeded on to an area at F. de la Mora and Defensores del Chaco, a major crossing street at about 10km. This area is called 4 Majones(Cuatro Majones), and I don't think it has been mentioned here before. It is a zona roja, with many pool bars and brothel bars around the corner area. Many have open fronts. There were also various women working in the street. A couple were 8 and 9 level. I would love to check this area out a lot better. The problem is it looked dangerous, because there were a lot of guys around drinking and playing pool in the places, and there weren't a lot of cops around. It is probably safe enough to cruise the street with a taxi and talk to a girl. I wouldn't try going into the places with less than 3 guys, or 2 big guys. But Nibu has a lot of guts.

We crossed over to Mariscal Lopez and headed on out to the love motel section at Calle Ingavi, about 15km out. There was nothing at all in Mariscal Lopez. We passed on to the second group near the Toyota dealer. Still nothing at all, and we headed on into San Lorenzo, so I could see it at night. The Plaza area was very quiet, with few people. There was a police presence. There were no chicas at all in the central area of San Lorenzo. We passed on the street market area, because the cabbie said it would be closed and empty also, like Mercado 4.

We returned up Mariscal Lopez and saw a couple of chicas working. Nothing very special. We crossed over to Avenida España and on up to Ave Artigas on Ave Santisima Trinidad. I saw nothing getting to Artigas. In Artigas, there are a couple of discos near Santisima Trinidad. The large, nice looking one is called Tropi Club. The other is smaller, about 2 blocks away. The area is more upscale. They are open Fri and Sat nights only. I saw no chicas in the entire area of Artigas where the other cabbie told me they might be found on the first tour. There appears to be nothing much interesting on Artigas, day or night.

We headed down Ave Brasilia from Ave Artigas. This is about 3km from el centro. In Ave Brasilia, about 3 blocks before crossing Ave España, there are about 6-8 discos. They are open on Fri and Sat nights only. This looks like a fairly decent area, better than the terminal area. There were no chicas in Brasilia.

We crossed on Republica Argentina to Eusebio Ayala. There were a couple of chicas working on Rep Arg. Supposedly, there are often more working this area.

We proceded on accross to Eusebio Ayala, another main spoke route. I saw 3 chicas(5-6) working near Pariri, about 3 km out. There were a couple more in the next block near Bartolomè de las Casas.

We crossed over to F. de la Mora on Medicos de Chaco. There must have been 15-20 TV's on Medicos de Chaco. Really ugly looking in a dangerous looking area.

We proceded to cross over to Lambarè on Cacique Lambarè and a couple other streets. We cruised thru Lambarè centro and on over to Juan Peron, the major spoke route to Lambarè. I saw no chicas working the entire routes and area. There was nothing on Juan Peron near the Lambarè love motels.

We crossed over to F. de la Mora to return to el centro. This was about 10:00PM. We saw a few more chicas working about 3 km out, near Gonzalez. This is on the el centro side of the terminal also. We talked to one, a 6, and she quoted G150k until 6:00AM. We headed on back to el centro and hit the hotel at 10:30.

Net net, I saw nothing better than the el centro area. My guess that the SW action is well distributed seems correct. I was disappointed by the near total lack of action on Mariscal Lopez. This night, the action was on F. de la Mora and Eusebio Ayala. I would love to investigate the area of 4 Majones, but don't dare alone.

Meanwhile, I still like my favorita I met the first week, so I am not complaining much. I have not seen another potential prostitute anywhere in Asuncion anywhere near as good.

I have since seen SW working in the afternoon around the Plaza Hotel on Plaza Uruguaya. I have seen some sitting in the area between the historic railroad station and the hotel in the 3:00PM range. The quality was 4-6. I didn't ask prices. I assume in the G50K/hr range.

Asuncion Trip 3

On Sunday, practically everything is closed but this internet cafe(Cyber Cafe) at 14 de Mayo & Oliva. El centro is deserted, literally. After 9PM, there is some life in the karaoke bars on Estrella.

The options of Asuncion are going to be limited without a car. The distances outside el centro are long. But I will not rent a car and drive in a poor country. I especially would not drive at night anywhere I would not walk, because the way they drive you could be walking in a second. Taxis are relatively cheap, but they do not cruise. They sit at paradas(taxi stands) until taken by radio or passers-by, in order. But that means to go to San Lorenzo and return at night, one must pretty much hire a cab at $7/hr. I would not want to try to find a San Lorenzo taxi to return. To return from anywhere by taxi, you must either call or know the location of the nearest taxi stand.

The bus system in Asuncion is good for the daytime. Most of the routes merge in el centro and spread out like the spokes of the wheel)as described earlier) in various ways. About 1/2 the buses go down Calle Oliva, and about 1/2 Calle Haedo(streets that also parallel Palma and Estella) and then spread out. They return to these streets by various routes.

I took bus no. 31 down Ave Mariscal Lopez down to Republic de Argentina. It goes right on Rep Arg to the the Omnibus Terminal and Fernando De La Mora and on. There is a shopping center in Mariscal Lopez near Rep Arg. called Shopping Villa Mora. Immediately behind it is a slightly larger center, Shopping Mariscal Lopez. Not big by US standards, but one of 3 or 4 in Asuncion. In a little store here I did find Listerine(from Brazil), which is generally not available anywhere. This whole section of Mariscal Lopez is strip suburbia also. There are nice businesses, homes, buildings. The US Embassy is on Mariscal Lopez. There are some nice supermarkets along Mariscal Lopez. The supposed SW section of M. Lopez is a few km further out.

I took bus no. 30 down Ave Via España to Shopping del Sol, another shopping center about 10 km out. Not large maybe 80 stores, but very upscale, with a large supermarket also. In a kiosk just outside the supermarket I was able to buy some maps. Got maps of Concepcion, Encarnacion, Ciudad del Este. They are expensive, but they do exist. I have been looking for them since I arrived. Ave España is relatively new strip developed suburbs. I saw my 1st Burger King, Pizza Hut, and McDonalds out by the mall.

I took bus no. 20 down Eusebio Ayala to Multiplaza, another shopping center about 12 km out. This is older than the others, with many empty stores. E. Ayala is generally a better strip developed street, but still with many poor industrial sections.

I took bus no. 26 down Mariscal Lopez to San Lorenzo. San Lorenzo is generally a poor old city. The center is about 20+km out. The area between Asuncion and San Lorenzo has filled in as strip developed 1 & 2 story development, some very poor and some modern. There is a nice Plaza with church at the center of San Lorenzo. There is a large street market that covers 10-15 blocks. There may be some action in the plaza at night. I wouldn't try walking in most of San Lorenzo at night, but the plaza area may be OK. There is one small hotel, the San Blas, near the plaza. It looks tolerable, in the $10 class. There is little of restaurants and bars. There is the Palace Hotel 2 blocks off M. Lopez on Calle Waldina Lovera about 1 km before San Lorenzo. It looks decent in the $8 class, but with little around it. In short, it would be hard to check out the SW action in San Lorenzo without staying in one of these hotels for a few days, and I don't recommend it. You could try to stay in one of the love motels(2+km toward Asuncion), but without a car this would be really tough.

Asuncion Trip 2

It is possible to buy a map of greater Asuncion, but it does not include San Lorenzo. In the Tourist store/office(Palma nr O'Leary), and a few libreriàs and news kiosks(G22k). Ask around for it.

Some general info about the level of Asuncion and Alrededores. The poor areas and streets, especially outside of el centro, are mostly one story, very old buildings, practically shacks. There are many decaying and vacant buildings mixed up with the ones in use, typical of decaying city areas. The better areas are 1-3 story development with parking/lots, very spread out US style. It is very hard to just walk around looking for something. The spokes of Asuncion are 15-20km long, and San Lorenzo is at the end of 2 of them. You have to take long cab/bus rides to go anywhere. Many of the smaller side streets outside of el centro, especially in the older areas, are not asphalt, they are cobblestone in dirt. They are terrible to drive over.

I took a 5 hour taxi tour Friday of the greater Asuncion area. I was able to hire a taxi for G40k($7)/hr, the common rate.

The cabbie showed me a place at 767 Colon (nr Humaita) he says is a brothel.

Generally, Asuncion looks like 1/3 of a wagon wheel( or a cone), with el centro as the hub up against the river, and the main routes as spokes. The other 2/3 of the wheel are missing because of the River Paraguay, which makes a V shape here and forms the sides of the cone.

I went down to the Lambaré area first(west side of cone). The route to Lambarè is about 10 km on Avenida Juan Peron. Generally, there is nothing there. There are some love motels that the locals use for weekends and love outings just off Avenida Juan Peron. I am told that some of them are nice inside. But that is all that is there. Way out in the middle of nowhere are these motels. To use them you have to bring your own chica and food. There are no stores, restaurants, nothing. Not even much in the way of people living in the area. I have no idea why these motels were built here, but they aren't going to help the visitor much. Saw one obvious SW on Peron, nothing special. It was in the afternoon though. I am sure there is a little more action at night. There is an area not far from the hotels with many very nice, designer homes of wealthy people. It is down around the Yacht and Golf club, a nice looking club. But like many wealthy suburbs, there is no commerce nearby. The old city center of Lambaré is very small, very old, very poor, with nothing there. No place for a tourist to stay. The rest of the greater Lambaré area is suburban sprawl of various kinds.

Went over to the Omnibus Terminal at Avenida de la Mora and Republica Argentina (De la Mora is the next major spoke). There are some nice suburban areas between Lambaré and the terminal. It appears that there may be some action around the terminal. There are supposed to be SW on Rep Arg nearby.

I returned to the terminal later on bus no. 8. Ave De la Mora has slum type businesses and is generally ugly and poor. The area around the terminal is much the same. The terminal is at the intersection of Ave. Republica de Argentina, a major spoke crossing route. Rep Arg is much nicer. There is a large supermarket about 1/2 km E. on Rep Arg. Accross De La Mora from the terminal is the Hotel del Viajero, a large hotel with a sign for room w/baño privado for G30k. Also accross De La Mora on Calle Cedro are Hotel Lujan and Hotel Anahi, which look decent in the under $10/day category.

I crossed on Ave Rep Arg over to Mariscal Lopez, skipping over Eusebio Ayala(the next spoke), which goes directly to San Lorenzo. Mariscal Lopez is mostly relatively modern suburban sprawl development. I went straight down to the motel area of Avenida Mariscal Lopez. There is a group of 8 or 10 motels that seem to specialize in hourly rates and rooms for sexual rendevous. They are located about 12km from el centro(G18k cab), almost to San Lorenzo. But again, these motels are in an area where there is nothing much around, for at least 1/2 mile. There is one group 2-5 blocks off of Mariscal Lopez at Calle Ingavi. This group includes the Millenium, Piramide, Colonial, Playhouse, Cleopatra, Fortaleza, Vips. There is another group 3/4 mile further out(turn left at light before the Toyota dealer on left). This includes the Molino, El Sultan, El Rey, and a couple others. You have to visualize that the streets around these motels are not paved, they are cobblestone in dirt, and are extremely hard to drive over. Again, there are no restaurants or stores in the area. Staying in one of these motels without an auto would be extremely difficult. The businesses in the area are car dealer, light industry type things. There are probably SW that are on Mariscal Lopez at night, waiting for clients in cars to pick them up to take them to a motel. I may take a taxi down at night later to check the quality and quantity. You have to believe that to support these motels, there is a source of women. But I suspect the source is practically the entire city, with few heavy concentrations. I will try to verify this further.

I went on into San Lorenzo on Mariscal Lopez. San Lorenzo city center is very old and poor also. There is a very large street market that I will go back to check out next week. There is little in the way of hotels and restaurants in San Lorenzo. I will say more about it if I go back by bus to check it more.

I went on into Luque. Luque is much smaller than San Lorenzo, very old and much poorer. Most of the area around Luque is also poor suburban sprawl. There is very little way to stay near the city center.

I went on around the city, up to the airport. The airport is on a street off Mariscal Lopez. The area between Luque and the airport is largely 3rd world.

Proceeding from the airport on around to the Botannical Garden. Many rich people live in this area in the northeast of the city. There are many very large estates, beautiful houses.

Proceeding from the botannical garden back into El Centro on Ave Artigas(the las spoke on the NE side). This is strip developed suburbs, US style. There is a section along Ave Artigas near the Garden where the cabbie said there are SW working. I may or may not check it out. It is way out there(G15k-10km), with no place to stay in the area.

That concluded my broad tour.