{"id":1306242,"date":"2026-10-07T20:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/?page_id=1306242"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:00:30","slug":"paraguay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/south-america\/paraguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"parent":1302047,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"hw-hub-country","meta":{"footnotes":"","hw_hub_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_hero_image":"","hw_hub_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_why_title":"","hw_hub_why_body":"","hw_hub_why_link_label":"","hw_hub_why_link_url":"","hw_hub_why_cards":"","hw_hub_stats":"","hw_hub_countries_title":"","hw_hub_countries_intro":"","hw_hub_featured":"","hw_hub_regions":"","hw_hub_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_hostels":"","hw_hub_when_title":"","hw_hub_when_intro":"","hw_hub_seasons":"","hw_hub_costs_title":"","hw_hub_costs_body":"","hw_hub_cost_rows":"","hw_hub_cost_note":"","hw_hub_money_reads":"","hw_hub_rail_title":"","hw_hub_rail_body":"","hw_hub_rail_link_label":"","hw_hub_rail_link_url":"","hw_hub_rail_image":"","hw_hub_routes":"","hw_hub_events_title":"","hw_hub_events_intro":"","hw_hub_events_source":"","hw_hub_events_continent":"","hw_hub_events_count":"","hw_hub_events_cache":"","hw_hub_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_events":"","hw_hub_events_pills":"","hw_hub_reads_intro":"","hw_hub_article_rows":"","hw_hub_show_read_time":"","hw_hub_all_title":"","hw_hub_all_body":"","hw_hub_all_cta":"","hw_hub_trips_title":"","hw_hub_trips_note":"","hw_hub_trips":"","hw_hub_faq_title":"","hw_hub_faq_note":"","hw_hub_faqs":"","hw_hub_cta_title":"","hw_hub_cta_body":"","hw_hub_cta_buttons":"","hw_hub_newsletter_title":"","hw_hub_newsletter_body":"","hw_hub_newsletter_shortcode":"","hw_hub_hub_term":"","hw_hub_scope_rows":"","hw_hub_country_hero_eyebrow":"Paraguay country guide","hw_hub_country_hero_h1":"Things to do in Paraguay","hw_hub_country_hero_intro":"The least visited country in South America, with Jesuit ruins, a language everyone actually speaks, and the emptiest wilderness on the continent. You will have it to yourself.","hw_hub_country_hero_image":"1307730","hw_hub_country_hero_overlay":"medium","hw_hub_country_hero_cta":"Pick a place | #cities\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_country_stats":"\u20ac10 | Dorm bed, from\r\n90% | Speak Guaran\u00ed\r\n\u20ac3 | A set lunch\r\n2 | UNESCO Jesuit missions","hw_hub_country_intro_title":"The country nobody stops in","hw_hub_country_intro_body":"Paraguay receives fewer visitors than anywhere else in South America, and most of those are passing between Argentina and Brazil. That is the appeal and the drawback in one: there is no traveller infrastructure to speak of, no gringo trail, and almost nobody speaks English.\r\n\r\nIt is also the only country on the continent where an indigenous language is spoken by the majority \u2014 around ninety per cent use Guaran\u00ed, often alongside Spanish, and it is on road signs and in parliament.\r\n\r\nThe sights are quiet and genuinely good. The Jesuit missions at Trinidad and Jes\u00fas are UNESCO-listed ruins of a seventeenth-century experiment in indigenous self-government, and they receive a handful of visitors a day. Asunci\u00f3n is a faded riverside capital, and the Chaco in the west is one of the emptiest places in the Americas.\r\n\r\nFour or five days covers what most travellers will want.","hw_hub_country_facts":"Languages | Spanish and Guaran\u00ed, both official. English is very limited\r\nCurrency | Paraguayan guaran\u00ed (PYG)\r\nEmergency | 911\r\nTap water | Not recommended. Bottled is cheap\r\nTipping | 10% in restaurants\r\nTerer\u00e9 | Cold mate, drunk everywhere, all day. The national habit\r\nHow long to stay | Four or five days\r\nBest months | May to September, when it is not 40\u00b0C","hw_hub_country_cities_title":"Where to go","hw_hub_country_cities_intro":"Buses cover the country cheaply. Nothing is more than six hours from Asunci\u00f3n.","hw_hub_country_cities_live":"1","hw_hub_country_cities":"Asunci\u00f3n | A faded riverside capital of colonial buildings, markets and very few visitors. |  | 1306244 | Loved this city\u2026 felt safe\u2026 fun street party on the sturdy night with great street food and live bands\u2026 | \nCiudad del Este | The border city by Igua\u00e7u falls, and one of the largest duty-free markets in the world. |  | 1307732 |  | ","hw_hub_country_trips_title":"What kind of trip is this?","hw_hub_country_trips_intro":"Paraguay is a history and wilderness stop, and a break from the crowds everywhere else.","hw_hub_country_trip_types":"Culture | purple | culture | Jesuit missions and a living indigenous language. | Trinidad and Jes\u00fas missions; The night light show at Trinidad; Guaran\u00ed in everyday use | Trinidad; Jes\u00fas de Tavarangue; Asunci\u00f3n centre | Trinidad; Encarnaci\u00f3n | culture\nBudget | teal | coin | Cheap, and with nothing charging tourist prices. | Set lunches for \u20ac3; \u20ac10 dorms; Buses that cost a euro or two | Asunci\u00f3n; Encarnaci\u00f3n | Asunci\u00f3n; Encarnaci\u00f3n | budget-travel\nAdventure | green | backpack | The Chaco, which is genuinely remote. | Wildlife in the Chaco; Birdwatching in the Pantanal fringe; R\u00edo Paraguay boat trips | Chaco; Ybycu\u00ed national park; Cerro Cor\u00e1 | Filadelfia | adventure\nCity break | blue | city | Asunci\u00f3n for two days, at a very slow pace. | The Pante\u00f3n and old centre; Mercado 4; A terer\u00e9 in the shade with everyone else | Asunci\u00f3n centre; Loma San Jer\u00f3nimo | Asunci\u00f3n | city-break\nFood | sunset | local-markets | Corn, cheese and beef, and a cold drink everyone carries. | Sopa paraguaya, which is a cornbread; Chipa from a street seller; Terer\u00e9 in the afternoon | Mercado 4, Asunci\u00f3n; Encarnaci\u00f3n market | Asunci\u00f3n | food\nBeach | sunset | sunglasses | No coast, but Encarnaci\u00f3n has a river beach. | The San Jos\u00e9 beach at Encarnaci\u00f3n; Lake Ypacara\u00ed at Aregu\u00e1; R\u00edo Paraguay sunsets | Encarnaci\u00f3n; Aregu\u00e1; Lake Ypacara\u00ed | Encarnaci\u00f3n | beach","hw_hub_country_do_title":"Things to do in Paraguay","hw_hub_country_do_body":"The Jesuit missions are the reason to come. Trinidad and Jes\u00fas de Tavarangue, near Encarnaci\u00f3n, are the ruins of communities where Jesuits and Guaran\u00ed built a semi-autonomous society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries before the order was expelled. They are UNESCO-listed, remarkably complete, and you may well be the only person there. Trinidad runs an evening light and sound show that is worth timing for.\r\n\r\nAsunci\u00f3n is a city of faded grandeur rather than sights: the Pante\u00f3n de los H\u00e9roes, the riverfront, Mercado 4 sprawling over several blocks, and a pace that stops entirely in the afternoon heat.\r\n\r\nEncarnaci\u00f3n has a river beach and a carnival in January and February that is the biggest in the country. The Chaco, west of the river, is 60 per cent of Paraguay's land with 2 per cent of its people, and it is for people who genuinely want emptiness.","hw_hub_country_do_points":"Trinidad and Jes\u00fas | UNESCO Jesuit ruins near Encarnaci\u00f3n. Often empty\r\nTrinidad at night | An evening light and sound show among the ruins\r\nMercado 4 | Asunci\u00f3n's sprawling market. Several blocks of everything\r\nThe Chaco | 60% of the country, 2% of the people. Genuinely remote","hw_hub_country_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_country_do_more":"All things to do in Paraguay","hw_hub_country_food_title":"Eating in Paraguay","hw_hub_country_food_body":"Paraguayan food is corn, cheese, cassava and beef. Sopa paraguaya is not a soup \u2014 it is a dense cornbread with cheese, and the name is a national joke. Chipa, a cheese bread made with cassava flour, is sold from baskets everywhere and costs a few cents.\r\n\r\nAsado is the weekend institution as across the region, and a set lunch in a city restaurant is \u20ac3 to \u20ac6.\r\n\r\nTerer\u00e9 is the thing you will notice first: cold mate with iced water and herbs, carried in a thermos and shared, drunk constantly through the heat of the day. Being offered it is normal and refusing is fine, though joining in is better.","hw_hub_country_food_points":"Sopa paraguaya | A cornbread, not a soup. The name is a national joke\r\nChipa | Cheese and cassava bread, sold from baskets for a few cents\r\nSet lunch | \u20ac3\u20136 in a city restaurant\r\nTerer\u00e9 | Cold mate with iced water and herbs. Shared, constantly","hw_hub_country_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_country_food_more":"All food guides for Paraguay","hw_hub_country_nightlife_title":"Going out in Paraguay","hw_hub_country_nightlife_body":"Asunci\u00f3n has bars and clubs in the Villa Morra and Carmelitas areas, aimed at a local middle-class crowd rather than travellers, and it runs late as everywhere in the region.\r\n\r\nThere is no backpacker scene to speak of, because there are very few backpackers. What exists instead is neighbourhood bars, live music and a lot of sitting outside with a thermos.\r\n\r\nEncarnaci\u00f3n's carnival in January and February is the country's big annual party, with parades over several weekends. Beer is \u20ac1.50 to \u20ac3, and ca\u00f1a, the local sugarcane spirit, is cheaper still.","hw_hub_country_nightlife_points":"Villa Morra | Asunci\u00f3n's bar and club area, local rather than traveller-facing\r\nNo backpacker scene | Because there are almost no backpackers\r\nEncarnaci\u00f3n carnival | January and February. The biggest party of the year\r\nPrices | A beer \u20ac1.50\u20133","hw_hub_country_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_country_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Paraguay","hw_hub_country_transport_title":"Getting around Paraguay","hw_hub_country_transport_body":"Buses do everything and they are very cheap: Asunci\u00f3n to Encarnaci\u00f3n is about six hours, to Ciudad del Este five, both for under \u20ac15. Long-distance services are comfortable; local ones are not.\r\n\r\nCiudad del Este sits across the bridge from Foz do Igua\u00e7u in Brazil, which makes Paraguay easy to slot into an Igua\u00e7u visit \u2014 the falls are on the Brazilian and Argentine sides, and Paraguay is the third corner.\r\n\r\nAsunci\u00f3n has buses and ride apps including Bolt and MUV. The Chaco requires a 4x4 or an organised trip, because the Trans-Chaco highway is the only real road and services beyond it are minimal.","hw_hub_country_transport_points":"Buses | Asunci\u00f3n to Encarnaci\u00f3n in six hours for under \u20ac15\r\nCiudad del Este | Across the bridge from Foz do Igua\u00e7u in Brazil\r\nRide apps | Bolt and MUV work in Asunci\u00f3n\r\nThe Chaco | 4x4 or organised trip. One highway and very little else","hw_hub_country_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_country_transport_more":"All transport guides for Paraguay","hw_hub_country_money_title":"What Paraguay costs","hw_hub_country_money_body":"Paraguay is among the cheapest countries on the continent, partly because nothing is priced for tourists. Dorms start around \u20ac10, a set lunch is \u20ac3 to \u20ac6, and a long bus journey is under \u20ac15.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac20 to \u20ac35.\r\n\r\nCiudad del Este is the exception in a different way: it is a vast duty-free shopping city where Brazilians and Argentines come to buy electronics, and it is chaotic rather than expensive. Cash is widely used, ATMs work in cities, and the guaran\u00ed has a lot of zeros \u2014 prices in the millions are normal.","hw_hub_country_money_points":"Dorm bed | From \u20ac10\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac20\u201335\r\nSet lunch | \u20ac3\u20136\r\nThe guaran\u00ed | Prices in the millions are normal. Count the zeros","hw_hub_country_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_country_money_more":"All budget guides for Paraguay","hw_hub_country_safety_title":"Staying safe in Paraguay","hw_hub_country_safety_body":"Asunci\u00f3n and the main travel routes are generally safe with ordinary city caution, and travellers report few problems \u2014 partly because there are so few travellers to target.\r\n\r\nCiudad del Este is the exception. It is a major contraband and smuggling hub with a significant informal economy, and while the shopping district functions normally in daylight, it is not a place to wander at night or flash valuables.\r\n\r\nGovernment advice restricts parts of the northern departments of Concepci\u00f3n, San Pedro and Amambay, where an armed group operates. Those areas are well away from anywhere a visitor would normally go, but check current advice if your route heads north.\r\n\r\nHeat is the everyday risk: summer regularly passes 40\u00b0C with high humidity, and the country largely stops in the afternoon for that reason.","hw_hub_country_safety_points":"Emergency | 911\r\nCiudad del Este | A smuggling hub. Fine by day, not a place to wander at night\r\nNorthern departments | Restricted in government advice. Check before heading north\r\nHeat | Over 40\u00b0C in summer. The country stops in the afternoon for a reason","hw_hub_country_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_country_safety_more":"All safety guides for Paraguay","hw_hub_country_entry_title":"Entry and documents","hw_hub_country_entry_body":"Most European, UK, Canadian and Australian citizens enter visa-free for 90 days. US citizens have had a visa requirement that has changed more than once, so check the official position.\r\n\r\nPassports need six months' validity.\r\n\r\nBorder crossings with Argentina and Brazil are straightforward and used constantly. Note that crossing the Friendship Bridge at Ciudad del Este into Brazil requires getting stamped on both sides \u2014 day-trippers frequently skip it and then have problems later, so do it properly even if nobody stops you.","hw_hub_country_entry_points":"Visa-free | 90 days for most European, UK, Canadian and Australian passports\r\nUS citizens | Requirements have changed more than once. Check the official position\r\nFriendship Bridge | Get stamped on both sides, even if nobody asks\r\nPassport validity | Six months","hw_hub_country_entry_tag":"travel-tips","hw_hub_country_entry_more":"All travel tips for Paraguay","hw_hub_country_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_country_season_intro":"May to September, when the heat is survivable. Summer in Asunci\u00f3n regularly passes 40\u00b0C with humidity to match.","hw_hub_country_season_note":"Average highs for Asunci\u00f3n, which is subtropical and genuinely punishing in summer. The Chaco in the west is hotter and drier still, regularly among the hottest places in South America.","hw_hub_country_season_rows":"January | 34 | 3 | Very hot and humid. Encarnaci\u00f3n carnival is the exception\r\nFebruary | 34 | 3 | Still very hot. Carnival continues\r\nMarch | 32 | 2 | Easing slightly. Still uncomfortable inland\r\nApril | 29 | 3 | Autumn. Becoming pleasant\r\nMay | 25 | 4 | Good. Dry and comfortable\r\nJune | 23 | 4 | Winter, and the most comfortable month for travelling\r\nJuly | 23 | 4 | Cool by Paraguayan standards. Excellent for the ruins\r\nAugust | 25 | 4 | Dry and warm. Very good\r\nSeptember | 28 | 3 | Warming. Still fine\r\nOctober | 30 | 3 | Hot again, with storms building\r\nNovember | 32 | 2 | Very hot and humid\r\nDecember | 34 | 2 | Peak heat. The country moves at afternoon pace","hw_hub_country_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_country_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel and how long for. Per night, for one person, in euro equivalents of guaran\u00edes.","hw_hub_country_budget_note":"Almost nothing here is priced for tourists, which is why the figures are low across the board.","hw_hub_country_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3\r\nMiddle of the road | 18 | 16 | 5 | 10\r\nComfortable | 30 | 30 | 9 | 20","hw_hub_country_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_country_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_country_events_intro":"Encarnaci\u00f3n's carnival is the one event that draws visitors from outside the country.","hw_hub_country_events_source":"api","hw_hub_country_events_country":"paraguay","hw_hub_country_events_count":"8","hw_hub_country_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_country_events_cta_label":"All events in Paraguay","hw_hub_country_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/south-america\/paraguay\/","hw_hub_country_events":"Carnaval Encarnaceno | January and February | Encarnaci\u00f3n | Parades over several weekends, and the biggest event in the Paraguayan year. |  | \nSemana Santa | March or April | Nationwide | Holy Week, when families make chipa together and the country closes. |  | \nTrinidad light show | Evenings, year-round | Trinidad | A sound and light presentation among the Jesuit ruins after dark. |  | \nIndependence Day | 14\u201315 May | Asunci\u00f3n | Two days of parades and celebration in the capital. |  | \nVirgin of Caacup\u00e9 | 8 December | Caacup\u00e9 | Hundreds of thousands walk to the basilica. The largest pilgrimage in the country. |  | \nDry season | May to September | Nationwide | The comfortable months, and the right time for the missions and the Chaco. |  | ","hw_hub_country_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Paraguay","hw_hub_country_hostels_intro":"The hostels in the country, live from Hostelworld. There are few, concentrated in Asunci\u00f3n, so book ahead rather than assuming.","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Paraguay","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/south-america\/paraguay\/","hw_hub_country_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_type":"country","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_id":"165","hw_hub_country_hostels_currency":"EUR","hw_hub_country_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_country_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_country_hostels":"","hw_hub_country_team_title":"","hw_hub_country_team_intro":"","hw_hub_country_team":"","hw_hub_country_faq_title":"Paraguay travel questions","hw_hub_country_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_country_faqs":"Is Paraguay worth visiting? | If you want the Jesuit missions at Trinidad and Jes\u00fas, a country with no tourist infrastructure and the emptiest wilderness on the continent, yes. If you want a traveller scene and things laid on, no \u2014 Paraguay has neither, and that is the whole character of it.\r\nHow long do you need? | Four or five days: two in Asunci\u00f3n, two around Encarnaci\u00f3n and the missions. Longer only if you are heading into the Chaco, which is a separate undertaking.\r\nWhat are the Jesuit missions? | Ruins of communities where Jesuits and Guaran\u00ed built a semi-autonomous society in the 17th and 18th centuries, before the order was expelled. Trinidad and Jes\u00fas are UNESCO-listed, remarkably complete, and often empty of visitors.\r\nIs Paraguay cheap? | Among the cheapest on the continent, partly because nothing is priced for tourists. Dorms from \u20ac10, set lunches at \u20ac3 to \u20ac6, and a day around \u20ac20 to \u20ac35.\r\nDo people really speak Guaran\u00ed? | Around ninety per cent of the population, usually alongside Spanish. It is the only indigenous language in the Americas spoken by a national majority, and it is on road signs and used in parliament.\r\nWhen should I go? | May to September. Summer in Asunci\u00f3n regularly passes 40\u00b0C with high humidity, and the Chaco is hotter still \u2014 the country genuinely stops in the afternoon for it.\r\nIs Paraguay safe? | Asunci\u00f3n and the main routes are fine with ordinary caution. Ciudad del Este is a smuggling hub and not somewhere to wander at night, and government advice restricts parts of the northern departments where an armed group operates.","hw_hub_country_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_country_cta_body":"Compare hostels across Paraguay \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. 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