from the swimming pool of san ignacio

There are ways how you imagine a travel - till now i have had my dream comleted two times: one time in rosario with esteban's asado, and today arrivong to san ignacio and finding this cheap cheap camping with hammocks reaggea music and a big swimming pool!!! a swimming pool always sounds cool but in 40 degrees it just gets necesarry... In Puerto de Iguazu we had a pool in the camping as well, but since it has become a lake in the last years, it didnt work...

From Rosario we took s 18 hours long bus drive to Iguazu falls... For being so expensive (all the prizes are the double since the 2007's lonely planety publication - they are rising fast...) it was not so cool the ride. Argentinians are big bus riders, and yes, we almoast had a bed instead of the seat and had some meals served - but it was dirty a lot - in facty some cocroaches. And the best is you cannot chose if you wanna  watch the movie or not - you just watch it coz it is bursting loud :) The y put 5 movies of Jacki  Chan!! Today on the 5 hours ride to San Ignacio at least it was the mummy 1-3.

Mate always, even on the bus

On the pampas there is nothing, cows and grass. And if you are lucky u can spot some gauchos (the cowboys of here).

And i could see the really poor side of this country  - when we stopped by in a town, a group of small children were waiting to get the garbage bag of the bus - with plenty of food inside it for them...

Iguazu is incredible. Look for my photoes. The only problem is you have to walk almoast in a line with the tourists... And they promise many animals (Vero was hoping to cross a puma) but obviously they avoid the noise.

Our camping was rather unique:

But now :DD

San Ignacio is quiet and beautiful.

Here are the jesuit missions. The jesuit priests established little communities isolated from everything where they were catolisizing the guarani indigenous people. However in a very friendly way, they could speak their langauge and customs... It was the succes of humanity, as the say it... It worked so well that the guarani folks (still keeping their identity even today) have mixed catholis music to their tribal sounds! Sadly enough, the jesuit missions (theree were around 30 in the region) got destroyed in the 18th century when the spanish king had had enough og pumping money into "nothing". Nowadays, you can visit the ruins...

Okay, still too warm, i jump in the pool :)