We arrived at Lipa with high expectations, based on the reviews here and Lipa's own highly informative website. Our expectations were all surpassed! Lipa is located in a very nice neighborhood of Asunción, safe, quiet, comfortable, and straightforward to reach from the bus terminal. The people are all friendly (it is Paraguay after all!), helpful, thoughtful, and patient. The proprietor Peter is a German expatriate who also speaks Spanish and English very well, and can help arrange tours and car rentals, and offer advice and insight about Paraguay and what you may find appealing there. Our apartment in Lipa (a "Deluxe" unit, number 7) was built, finished to, and maintained at a very high standard of quality, including masonry walls (we never heard any of our neighbors), vaulted ceilings, hard-surface flooring throughout, and a private exterior balcony with table & chairs. Fully tiled bathroom, a well-designed mix of indirect and task lighting, European-style double-pane tilt-and-turn wood windows, large dedicated hot-water heater, excellent shower head, well-equipped kitchen with large refrigerator, 4-burner gas stovetop and oven. Very comfortable memory-foam mattress, 2 separately-controlled air conditioners, ceiling fans, several multi-plug international electrical outlets, 802.11b,g,n wireless router close enough to connect my Dell laptop anywhere in the apartment at speeds upwards of 150Mbps. Deluxe paint job with accent walls, leather sofa, coordinated furniture pieces made by the excellent Paraguayan craftsmen, and everything was spotlessly clean. As a brief review-within-a-review: We followed Peter's recommendation to contract Claudia Allende to show us around Paraguay, and thoroughly appreciated her local knowledge, contacts, and skillful personalization of our tours to suit our preferences. Claudia speaks German and English in addition to Spanish and Guarani, and was always precisely on time while cheerfully accommodating our hectic & uncertain travel schedule. The entire experience was thoroughly delightful. We've been fortunate enough to enjoy some wonderful travel experiences in the past, but Lipa and Paraguay are unsurpassed! We will definitely be coming back, as soon as we possibly can!…