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Your own guide, your own vehicle, and an itinerary shaped entirely around you.
A private trip deep into the Paraguayan Chaco — one of South America's most remote wildernesses — visiting real Mennonite colonies, Chaco War battle sites, and native wildlife reserves.
This route stays entirely within Paraguay, heading west from Asunción across the Río Paraguay into the Chaco region and returning to the capital on the final day.
A private guide, driver, and vehicle for the entire trip, with hotels pre-arranged at every overnight stop — the pace and any optional stops can still be shaped around your group.
Hotel pickup in Asunción.
Depart Asunción and cross the Río Paraguay into the Chaco, watching the landscape shift from wetland to dry scrubland. Stop in Villa Hayes, named for former US President Rutherford B. Hayes, and visit a rural boarding school where students travel hundreds of kilometers to attend, before continuing to your hotel for the night.
Visit Fortín Toledo, a real battle site from the 1932–35 Chaco War, and the adjoining Proyecto Taguá conservation center, home to the Chacoan peccary, a species once thought extinct. Continue to the German-speaking Mennonite colonies of the central Chaco, touring museums that cover their settlement history and sampling jams and foods made from native Chaco fruits.
Visit the Chaco Interpretation Center and Fortín Boquerón, site of one of the decisive battles of the Chaco War, with its preserved trenches and small museum, before the drive back to Asunción, with an optional stop at a salt lagoon known for caiman, rhea, and (seasonally) flamingo sightings.
The trip ends back in Asunción, with a transfer to your accommodation or to Silvio Pettirossi International Airport for your onward flight.
A private trip deep into the Paraguayan Chaco — one of South America's most remote wildernesses — visiting real Mennonite colonies, Chaco War battle sites, and native wildlife reserves. This route stays entirely within Paraguay, heading west from Asunción across the Río Paraguay into the Chaco region and returning to the capital on the final day.
The Mennonite colonies of the Chaco began in 1927, when about 1,743 Mennonites from Canada settled near what became Loma Plata, the center of the Menno Colony. German and Russian Mennonites founded the Fernheim colony around Filadelfia in 1930. Conditions were harsh, with heat, dust storms, and locusts, and the first settlers waited many months at Puerto Casado before the land was ready.
The Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia began in the 1930s, and the Battle of Boquerón, fought September 9 to 29, 1932, was its first major battle. Paraguayan forces under Lt. Col. José Félix Estigarribia besieged the Bolivian stronghold and won, helped by mortars the Bolivian troops had not faced before. It is remembered as a decisive early Paraguayan victory in a war that cost many lives on both sides.
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