Day 5: Asunción – San Ignacio – Encarnación
In the morning, pick up and departure from Asunción following the Route 1 direction south. The first stop on our way to Encarnación is the city of Caapucú, with visit of the Museum Casa-Oratorio Cabañas, which was built in the 17th Century, showing original documents of the Spanish Governor Don Bernardo de Velazco. Later, we arrive in San Ignacio Guazú. In this city we find the most important museum about the history of the Jesuits. It was in San Ignacio Guazú, where the first mission of this region (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia) was founded in 1609. Afterwards, we visit the Museum Diocesano, where we can admire a huge number of statues which were calved by the Indigenous more than 300 years ago. In the evening we arrive in Encarnación, the capital of the Department number 7: Itapúa. By a first glance over the city, we will fast understand why Paraguayans call this city “the pearl of the South”.
O/B Hotel Milord 4* in Encarnación