I arrived early in the morning into Posadas and headed straight to my accommodation. It was a lovely converted traditional house that was bright yellow. It had a beautiful swimming pool in the middle of the house with rooms leading off a central U shaped patio.
The house was on the side of a hill and had some views of the Rio Paraña which seperates Argentina from Paraguay.
During the day I walked around the city and then had a nice cold beer at a cafe. They had a very ingenious way of keeping the beer cold. They had an esky in the shape of the bottle.... very clever indeed.
This town mostly serves as a point to transit when going to Iguazu Water Falls. It is not really a tourist place but there are some Jesuit Mission Ruins about 50 minutes out side the town.
I decided to visit the ruins but I didn´t realise that it was a public holiday and most buses and other services don´t operate as often if at all. Luckily for me the ruins were open, but there was almost no one there.
It was a originally built in the early 1600 but was abandoned by the mid 1700´s. The site was called Santa Ana. Up to 4000 people lived there. All the buildings were knocked down during some wars after the original inhabitants had left and thats how they became ruins.Most of the remaining walls are covered or surrounded by jungle plants and trees.
Some of the walls are still standing and you can see where the outlines of the builings would have once stood.
They are currently working to restore the walls of the main church building, but from the speed of the workers I saw it could take them a very long time.
I spent around an hour having a look and taking photo´s before I headed back into town.
Again I only stayed two days and some other travellers told me that I should go to the sight of another mission at San Ignacio which is also on the road towards the Iguazu Falls.
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