To the North East of Paraguay where soya bean and corn fields are the exception and you one can enjoy the old and peaceful side of the country. Four car hours from Asuncion, 16 km east from concepcion and 2km south from Belen at the old dirt road number 5 you can find us.
The co-ordinates for Google Earth are puntero 23 (0) 27 (1) 20(.) 22(11) South 57(0) 16 (1) 46(.) 58(11) Flying on a hight from 2894 feet you have El Roble completly on the screen. Our location is perfect for trips through the Chaco, to the town of Concepcion, river trips on the ypane and the Rio Paraguay.
 
How to arrive:
You reach Concepcion with the bus from Asuncion via the chaco (5 hours - 10 us dollars)
From Ciudad Del Este (8 hours aprox - 20 US dollars)
Santa Cruz Bolivia, without rain ( 20 hours - 100 US dollars to Pozo Colorado change bus for concepcion)
Pedro Juan Cabello (5 hours 10 US Dollars)
 
From the airport at Asuncion you can charter a plane to Concepcion.
 
The most interesting way to arrive is on either of the two river boats that travel from Asuncion each week. (36 hours aprox, 15 - 125 US Dollars.) Food is included, but it is reccomended that you provide your own.
 
We pick you up where ever you are in paraguay by truck. There is a fixed price per km of 25 cents. Male hitch hikers have good possibilities, female even better, but because of the excessive testosterone of Paraguayan machos it is not a very good idea.
 
What to do at El Roble:
Our special clients from (Dec-March) are the Mennonites from the chaco. They come for fishing, enjoying the richness of the fertile land, preparing their own barbacues of locally caught fish and meat from the farm, or to taste the homemade, home produced Paraguayan and German food. El Roble is also a paradise for their children with a small swimming pool, tree house, play area, animals - small caimen, turtles, rabbitts, nose bears, giant lizards and parrotts and lots of space for games.
 
Our expierence with backpackers is that they can be a little sceptical about whether they really need to stay in the comfortable well fed attmosphere of El Roble, but that after the food and mossquito free night they diagnoise themselves with travel sickness and prescribe a cure of several days or weeks relaxing on the farm. At times they also join working trips to remote parts of paraguay where they can see what normal tourists never can.
For specialists we organise tours:
- fish for fisherman
- fish for aquerian
- ornopholigists
- anephebian reptalian
- orchids