Paraguay, First Edition

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Bradt Travel Guides, 2010 - 340 páginas
Paraguay is still largely undiscovered by travelers, but those who make their way here are delighted by the country s distinctive culture and strong indigenous features. This is the only truly bilingual nation of Latin America, with Guarani spoken alongside Spanish all over the country. Its folk-dance tradition is hugely popular among young people; its harp playing is legendary; and Paraguayans are proud of their different handicrafts, particularly their sewing. The country is also home to the historic Jesuit missions, or reductions (as depicted in the film The Mission).Bradt s Paraguay the only English-language guidebook to this emerging tourism destination covers the region with unrivalled detail and knowledge. Written by an author who has lived for the last decade in the Paraguayan countryside, where she has set up an educational charity, it delves deep into a country that has so far eluded the grasp of mass tourism, and where rich indigenous culture and folk traditions still hold strong."
 

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Contenido

Background Information
3
Practical Information
25
Asunción
61
Circuito de Oro
101
Misiones and the Jesuit Reductions
153
Southeast to Itapúa and the Ruins
189
Southwest to Ñeembucú and the Old Battlegrounds
217
Excursion to the Iguazú Falls
225
Villarrica and Central Paraguay
253
Concepción and the Northeast
271
The Chaco
293
Language
312
Glossary
320
Selective List of Fauna
325
Further Information
327
Index
332

Ciudad del Este and the East
239

Términos y frases comunes

Acerca del autor (2010)

Margaret Hebblethwaite is an established journalist and broadcaster, and author of a number of books on theology and the Catholic faith. She has lived in Paraguay since 2000.

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