Amboro Tours

Jesuit Missions of La Gran Chiquitania

• Itinerary of 3 Days 2 Nights

From the City of Santa Cruz

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3 Days 2 Nights

1st Day
At 7:30A.M. we will pick you up to take you to the town of San Ignacio located 476 kilometers away (767.74 miles)

This town is on 530 meters above sea level and it has around 30.000 inhabitants. About half of this trip will be done on a paved road, passing by several towns and villages of people that moved from the high lands of bolivia to the low lands of santa Cruz. Also on the way we may see some Mennonites´colonies.

This trip is crossing an agricultural area, which grows soybean, sunflower, and several other types of grains. There, we can also realize the relentless advance of the agricultural frontier from 30 Kilometers (48.38 Miles) off Santa Cruz. The trip to San Ignacio takes approximately 9 hours.

On the way we will stop in San Javier with 12.00 inhabitants and on 542 meters on sea level. In San Javier, a town with indigenous background, founded in the year 1691 by the Jesuits.

Here we visit its famous Jesuit church and the museum in company of a specialist guide.

Lunch would be in San Javier or before.

Dinner in San Ignacio and overnight in San Ignacio.

2nd Day
After breakfast in San Ignacio we will start our trip along missional circuit, visiting the Jesuit churches, in the small towns San Miguel, San Rafael and Santa Ana.

These churches are the ones that most hold the original work of the Tribes and Jesuit missionaries.

This part of the Missionary journey is 152 kilometers (245.16 Miles) on a road without pavement and it would take about 4 hours.

Lunch in one of these small towns.

In San Ignacio we also visit its Church. This church is not the same as it was constructed by the native people and the Jesuits. But it keeps inside the altarpieces and other things of the time.

After lunch we will continue our trip to the town of Concepción along the same path that we got, passing by several small villages of indigenous people.

Concepcion is on 534 meters above sea level and it has around 15.000 inhabitants of largely Zamucos´ background that with other tribes were gathered here by the Jesuits Missioners. Although there are also people of foreign background.

This town was founded by the Jesuits in the year 1708 with 10 different tribes, each of these tribes then spoke different languages and worship different gods, each of these gods represented the nature.

The trip will take approximately 3 hours. We will have dinner in Concepción.

Overnight in Concepcion

3rd Day

After breakfast, with a specialist guide. we will visit, the church of Concepcion and its two museums.

The guide will tell us about the retauration process and other importante details jesuits´ time

We also may visit some souvenir shops and other places of interest.

We will have lunch in San Javier this will depend on how our itinerary is going. After lunch we will drive back to Santa Cruz.

The trip will take approximately 5 hours. We will reach Santa Cruz about 16:00 hours.

One in Santa Cruz we take you to your place.

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Amboró Tours is the only original source of this Itinerary.

Amboró Tours also offers longer and shorter Tours to this destination.

Adverse climatologic conditions or social unrest can change the original itinerary.

Amboró Tours is the only original source of this Itinerary

Amboró Tours also offers longer and shorter Tours to this destination.

Adverse climatologic conditions or social unrest can change the original itinerary.