Trinidad - Paraguay

Due to being so close to the Argentian border, we had left Paraguay, gone to the Falls and traveled down Argentina to a city called Posadas, before crossing back into Paraguay at the town of Encaracion, and visiting the Jescuit Ruins just before the town of Trinidad. There are also ruins on the Argentian side, however, we decided to see these ones instead, and made a day trip across borders. We caught a bus from Encaracion and got off, at what felt like the middle of nowhere, to then walk for 10 minutes to the Ruins. Luckily there happened to be a guide who spoke some English, otherwise we may not have really enjoyed our day adventure so much, due to not really having any background information about the ruins. The Spanish Jescuit priests went over to set up indigenous communities to protect them from the Spanish invaders, to become self sustaining and turn them to Christianity. The two faiths were quite similar anyway, so this didn´t take much. There was 2 churches, one massive one which would be interesting to have seen in its glory, some homes, squares and fields. They ate 30 cows a day! The community was armed to defend themselves, but some other priests suggested that the locals may pose a threat to the Spanish rulers, so they threw out the Jescuit priests who had been protecting the community. Later the community broke down.