San Ignacio
Travel Blogs from San Ignacio, Argentina
Jesuit Ruins
Jesuit Ruins. On route to Buenos Aires we stopped at the Jesuit ruins. We watched the movie The Mission the night before with Liam Neeson. How touristy of us. The ruins were cool. It was your typical Early Christian Ireland settlement: A giant church, ...
Estancia and ruins
... some time to read.As soon as the sun dissapeared it was though time for the fireplace. Early in the evening we caught then a bus to San Ignacio where it was freezing cold and as we were so tired we all had an early night. The next day we visited the ruins ...
Jesuit Ruins - our first real adventure
... morning, which was a relief. We headed to the Jesuit ruins, which is why we came to the town. San Ignacio ruins Jesuits built these ruins. They were missionaries who came with the Spanish to evangelise. I do not knowmuch about them. ...
Ruins, poets and bicycles
I only spent one day in San Ignacio as I wanted to get on to Buenos Aires but I could easily have spent another day or two there as it was such a cute little town. It reminded me of western films - big wide dirt streets lined with wooden houses with ...
Jesuits are Everywhere
We woke up early on Tuesday morning to catch the bus to go to San Ignacio, site of Jesuit ruins from the 1600s. We got to the bus station at around 9:30am after breakfast at the hostel, and hopped on our 4 hour bus ride to the town. We got to the ...
Waterfalls and sunshine!
... leather seats and more Tetris but sadly no new personal record) to arrive 5 hours later in the small town of San Ignacio de Mini. This town only exists as it has the ruins of the largest Jesuit Mission in ...
San Ignacio
... to Posadas, where we decided to spend the night before pushing on this morning. This morning we did the last hour to San Ignacio, a small town surrounded by jungle. We had a well deserved lunch and then spent a pleasant afternoon visiting the Jesuit ...
And the wheels on the bus go thump thump bang!
Okay-so I left Iguazu and decided to break up the long journey back and go see the Jesuit ruins at San Ignacio so when I got to the bus station there was a small bus at 11 or a big one at 11:30. I knew that the small bus would mean less comfort but it was ...
vervolg2 alice in wonderland
... . Het plan was om na spirituele voorbereiding maandagnacht bij volle maan op stap te gaan als het genootschap van san pedro. Maar diegene die de wacht hield en de anderen wakker zou maken is in slaap gevallen met als resultaat dat we ...
The Jesuit mission ruins
... cake (turns out South Americans love cake for breakfast). We then checked out and went to the bus station to leave for San Ignacio in Posadas. After a 5 hour bus journey we arrived in the middle of nowhere. There was a bus station with ticket offices, a ...
More Jesuit Mission ruins
... bus stop. We waited over an hour for the bus back, where I was in charge of asking every bus driver if he stopped in San Ignacio. After returning to San Ignacio, we strolled through the market stalls and went to the supermarket. Later in the evening, we ...
think music to The Mission
... night. Surreal. This is the weirdest, most surreal, most like Twilight Zone town we´ve been in yet. The whole town of San Ignacio Mini is like a throwback to the 1960s America except with much jungle growth. The cars are from that era - how can ...
Last days
Día 14: Puerto Iguazú - Córdoba. Departure after brakfast to Minas de Wanda y San Ignacio. During morning visit to the "Minas de Wanda". It is an important open air mining where the extraction techniques are shown and there is also the chance of buying ...
Ruinas bonitas - Ruinen
Das Dorf: klein aber fein. Die Ruinen: besonders die Light and SoundShow am Abend ist sehr beeindruckend gemacht und mit 50 Minuten schon fast zu kurz ;o) Am Tag ist dieses Weltkulturerbe ebenfalls sehenswert. El pueblo: pequeño y normalillo las ruinas: ...
Mission of San Ignacio Mini
... in 1632 by the Jesuits in the Americas during the Spanish colonial period near present-day San Ignacio valley, some 60km south of Posadas, Misiones Province, Argentina. The original mission was erected near the year 1610 by priests José Cataldino and ...
san ignacio mini, jesuit ruins
we stopped at san ignacio for about 6 hours. dirt roads and kind faces lead us to the ruins of a jesuit mission from the 1600´s. we learned about the structure and make up of the ruins with our personal guide and then emily and i had a field day running ...
Misiones Jesuita
... Espagne à les faire exterminer... Nous rentrons donc dans les ruines de ce qui fût le lieu de vie des 4500 habitants de San Ignacio Mini. Lieu immence dont la plus part des murs restant laisse deviner les dimmensions des habitations et lieu de vie. Une ...
mijne poot!
dees vedient een aparte entry! ik ben bij mijn updatemaraton de belangrijkstre foto vergeten blijkbaar maar hier komt ie dan!!! ondertussen verloopt hier in cordoba alles naar wens, veel nieuwe leuke mensen, veel rondgepikkel, en fat veel ...
Jesuitsville
spread my wings and fly
over yacuyura niet veel nieuws of toch niet belangrijk genoeg om er kostbare pesos aan te geven. buiten misschien het feit dat ik vertrek. Het was een mooie en leerzame ervaring maar de moment om verder te gaan is aangebroken, dus gewoon effe snel laten ...
San Ignacio, Misiones
... than expected. We were left on the side of the road in the hot, humid red-dust town of San Ignacio in the Missiones district of northern Argentina, and slogged our way in the heat of the day to the Adventure Hostel…which had a POOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...
Cabanas Jesuiticas San Ignacio Mini-Pragamisiones
... ready to explore this still untouched corner of marvellous province Misiones in Argentina and this little mistic town-San Ignacio Miniwhere tourist interests go far beyond breathtaking Jesuit Ruins! Our family ...
The San Ignacio Ruins
A roaster of a day and we are out on the trail of the Jesuits and their settlements here in San Ignacio.... impressive structure and story of colonisation. Mel has been suffereing the past few days with the ´Travellers Sickness´.... and has been ...
Ruins of Jezuit mission in San Igancio
Just passing through, short visit of the ruins and quick lunch before catching other bus to ...
Trinidad - or the heat is on...
... Jesiut Ruins where we had abour 2 hrs and went to the camp ground. The drive was great - Paraguay is very different from Argentina. It is less cultivated more wild - somehow it looks like Costa Rica. The camp ground was really nice. A pool, very ...

