Asuncion. (Best of Latin America).BEST CAR RENTAL Hertz. The main office is on Avenida Eligio Ayala Jose Eligio Ayala (1879 - 1930) was President of Paraguay from April 1 1923 - April 12 1924 and again from August 1924 until 1928. He was a member of the Liberal Party (Paraguay). ; phone: 595-21-605-708. There's also a Hertz counter at the Silvio Pettirossi Silvio Pettirossi (June 16, 1887-October 17, 1916) was a Paraguayan airplane pilot and aviation pioneer. Born in Asunción, as a young man he moved to Buenos Aires. There he contacted the aviator Jorge Newbery, who taught him to fly. Airport; phone: 595-21-645-600. www.hertz.com BEST SOUVENIRS In addition to leather bags, jackets and belts and nanduti lace, find a music store in one of the small shopping malls and take home a CD of Paraguayan harp music. The harp is the country's national musical instrument. There's a good little shop across from the Excelsior Hotel at Chile 901 or try the Mariscal Lopez Shopping at 5050 Quesada, phone: 595-21-611-272. BEST BUSINESS HOTEL Granados Park. Unusual perks give this hotel an edge. Clothes are ironed at no charge on arrival day; use of VIP conference rooms is free; computers with printers are situated at various spots around the hotel--or plug in your laptop in your room and use the Internet at no charge. Airport transfers are free and if you have a rental car there's no charge to park at the hotel. A bountiful buffet breakfast is included in the room rate. For other meals, lunch or dinner in II Mondo mon·do Slang adj. Enormous; huge: a mondo list of pizza toppings. adv. Extremely; very: a mondo big mistake. restaurant is a real treat. There's also a gym, massage room and a rooftop pool. Located in the business and financial center, the hotel is three blocks west of the Plaza de los Heroes, a great place for a shoeshine and a good spot for shopping. Around the plaza, you can get anything leather you can imagine (prices drop as you get closer to the waterfront stores). Nanduti tablecloths, the lacy spider web creations made in the small town of Itagua just outside Asuncion, hang in shop windows and narrow tramways still provide transportatio n through the streets. The Granados Park has 57 junior suites, 11 executive suites, two deluxe suites and one presidential suite; rates start at US$100, plus 10% tax. Phone: 595-21-497-921. www.granadospark.com.py BEST COMBINATION BUSINESS & LEISURE HOTEL Hotel Casino Yacht y Golf Club Paraguayo. This 128-room hotel sits about nine kilometers from the center of town on the shore of the Paraguay River Paraguay River River, South America. The fifth largest river in South America, it is 1,584 mi (2,550 km) long and the principal tributary of the Paraná River. Rising in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, it crosses Paraguay to its , surrounded by 493 acres of greenery. After the business day ends, this is premiere spot to play. There's an 18-hole golf course (par 72), 14 tennis courts, boating, jet skiing, a gym, a health club and even a laundromat for frugal fru·gal adj. 1. Practicing or marked by economy, as in the expenditure of money or the use of material resources. See Synonyms at sparing. 2. Costing little; inexpensive: a frugal lunch. guests. There is also a disco, a car rental desk, a pool and, oh yes, a business center and secretarial services. Rates start at US$160. Phone: 595-21906-121. www.hotelyacht.com.py. BEST RESTAURANT FOR A BUSINESS LUNCH OR DINNER La Pergola pergola Garden walk or terrace typically formed by two rows of columns or posts roofed with an open framework of beams and cross rafters over which plants are trained. Its purpose is to provide a foundation on which climbing plants can be viewed and to give shade. Jardin. Surubi is a tasty fish caught in Paraguay's rivers and cooked to perfection Adv. 1. to perfection - in every detail; "the new house suited them to a T" just right, to a T, to the letter in this sophisticated restaurant. Avenida Peru 240; phone: 595-21-214-014. There are, however, many excellent restaurants in Asuncion and a good runner up--for the atmosphere as well as the food--is Churrasqueria Acuarela, 10 minutes from the town center. Plates are heaped high from the buffet then piled up some more when waiters come by with skewers of grilled meats. Mariscal Lopez at Teniente Zotti; phone: 595-21-601-750. BEST TRAVEL AGENCY InterTours. This agency has been operating all over Paraguay for 20 years, and offers a full range of services. The company has just introduced a new cruise service on the Paraguay River from Asuncion to the Pantanal and Pilar Pilar strong-minded female leader of a group of guerrillas in the Spanish Civil War. [Am. Lit.: Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls] See : Female Power Pilar Marshlands. Phone: 595-21-211-747. www.intertours.com.py BEST TOURISTY TRIP Itaipu Dam. Although a visit to this extraordinary engineering feat (dubbed one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World) can be done in one day from Asuncion, an overnight in Ciudad del Este Ciudad del Este (Spanish for City of the East) is the capital of Alto Paraná department of Paraguay, located at the Rio Paraná at . is a better idea. That gives you time even to cross the Friendship Bridge Friendship Bridge is the name for bridges linking countries separated by rivers or straits:
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