Is Paraguay expensive? What a trip really costs
The fixed prices for transfers and tours, three budgets added up for real, and the half of the cost nobody can promise you.
The fixed prices for transfers and tours, three budgets added up for real, and the half of the cost nobody can promise you.
Ciudad del Este is 20 km from Foz do Iguacu and 30 to 40 km from Puerto Iguazu. The drive is the easy part; the border is what decides your day.
Clorinda, the Ita Enramada ferry, Encarnación and Puerto Iguazú: what each crossing connects, how far it is and which one is yours.
Why the prices are genuinely lower, what to insist on before you pay, and the border and warranty rules that decide whether the saving survives the trip home.
Paraguay’s biggest carnival, the parade nights on the waterfront, and why the ride home at 3 AM is the part nobody plans.
How to fit both sides of the Iguazu Falls and the Paraguayan corner into one trip, without spending the day queueing at bridges.
Where the night happens in Asuncion, and why the ride home is the part that needs planning before you go out.
Trinidad and Jesús de Tavarangüé, with the opening hours, the tickets, the walking involved and how to get there from Asunción.
How long each option really takes, what changes at the border, and when the cheapest way turns out to be the expensive one.
Every Paraguayan city worth the trip, how far it is from Asunción, how long the drive really takes and what it costs per vehicle.