10 Wanda Mines & Jesuit Missions Tours in Argentina Worth the Day

1.San Ignacio Ruins and Wanda Mines Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 · 110 reviews · 12h 30m · from $45Our pick

Full-day trip from Puerto Iguazu to UNESCO San Ignacio Miní ruins and the Wanda Mines, with Spanish guides, cave visits, and lots of precious stones.

“TRoppo lunga sarebbe meglio farle in due visite separate. Le informazioni mandate relative ai biglietti degli ingressi sono risultati errati e non veritrieri (non aggiornati), invece di 250 ARS ne abbiamo pagatti 13.000. Anche sul servizio di ritiro c'é stato qualche difficoltà.”

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2.Wanda Mines and San Ignacio Ruins Day Trip

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 · 32 reviews · 12 hours · from $76

Combine UNESCO San Ignacio Ruins with a guided gem hunt at Wanda Mines on a small-group day trip from Foz do Iguaçu.

“Aunque queda a tres horas y medio de Foz vale totalmente la pena”

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3.Visit to San Ignacio Ruins and Wanda Mines Full day Tour

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 29 reviews · 11 to 12 hours (approx.) · from $57

San Ignacio ruins and Wanda Mines cave gems in one long day from Puerto Iguazú, with hotel pickup and an English-friendly guide.

“I want to make a claim. Service was terribly bad. And I felt scammed x that there was no guide, the mic that got stranded on the routeAuto-translated”

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4.PRIVATE TOUR: World Heritage Jesuit Museums

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 23 reviews · 6 to 8 hours (approx.) · from $80Top rated

Private Jesuit museum tour in Córdoba: UNESCO ranches, small group to 4, air-conditioned transport, snacks. 6-8 hours.

“Rodrigo was a really great tour guide. Friendly and helpful but also very knowledgeable of the sites and the history. Seeing the picturesque Jesuit sites was great and we also stopped for a really delicious authentically local lunch. Then we went to an old-school Italian deli for espresso and sweets, and we also had time to stop by a local winery which I really enjoyed. Would definitely recommended. Rodrigo speaks both Spanish and English”

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5.Full-Day Tour to the San Ignacio Mission Ruins and Wanda Mines

★★★★★★★★★★3.0 · 22 reviews · 11 hours (approx.) · from $60

11-hour Puerto Iguazu tour to San Ignacio Mission ruins and Wanda Mines, with pickup, guided visits, and quartz-gem learning.

“This was interesting and a good change of pace while at the falls. Had a good guide and small group at both the mine and the mission. Some confusion on how to pay the admission fees to both areas”

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6.Visit to the Jesuit Ruins of San Ignacio and the Wanda Mines

★★★★★★★★★★3.4 · 19 reviews · 11 - 12 hours · from $58

Full-day tour from Puerto Iguazu to the Wanda Gem Mines and UNESCO Jesuit Ruins of San Ignacio Miní, with caves and a light show.

“We really enjoyed our day to San Ignacio and the Wanda mines. However, we booked the tour in English, but almost nothing actually was in English. This wasn’t a huge problem for us, as we have a decent enough basic understanding of Spanish, but it wasn’t what we had booked and no real effort was put in, for example, translating. Additionally, the tour is advertised as being 11 hours, but with picking everyone up and dropping everyone off (we were the first to be picked up, and the last to be dropped off) the tour lasted 14 hours for us. This wasn’t a huge problem for us, but if you…”

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7.San Ignacio Mission and Wanda Mines Tour

★★★★★★★★★★3.9 · 18 reviews · 12 hours · from $74

See Argentina’s Jesuit past at San Ignacio and then tour the open-air Wanda Mines, plus a yerba mate stop, from Puerto Iguazú.

“The guide was polite and kind, he can speak English, the pick up was on time, but the trip to San Ignacio was very long. Around 3.5 hours from city Centre, lunch at the restaurant was quite good.”

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8.Wanda Mines and San Ignácio Ruins (Foz/Puerto Iguazu)

★★★★★★★★★★3.4 · 8 reviews · 10 hours · from $60

A 10-hour day trip that pairs a working Wanda gemstone mine with guided visits to the UNESCO Jesuit ruins of San Ignacio.

“wonderful tour. picked us up at our hotel. the mine tour was interesting. the Jesuit ruins were very interesting. good tour guides with good English”

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9.Minas de Wanda – Foz do Iguaçu/Puerto Iguazú

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 8 reviews · 4 hours · from $52

Walk five active tunnels in Minas de Wanda near Puerto Iguazú, spotting 52+ stone types, with open-air and cave mining views.

“El tour es muy interesante y el guía tenía buenos conocimientos de las minas y la zona. Muy entretenido, aunque me queda un poco corto el tour, entiendo que aún está en proceso de crecimiento. En resumen, muy recomendado ir a conocer las Minas, su historia y sobre la mineria de piedras semi preciosas.”

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10.Wanda Mines and San Ignacio Ruins Tour from Puerto Iguazu

★★★★★★★★★★3.3 · 3 reviews · from $66

Full-day tour from Puerto Iguazu to the Wanda Mines and UNESCO Jesuit ruins of San Ignacio Miní, with a small group and easy transfers.

“I paid a total of 127,63 euros as it was mentioned that there will be a guide who speaks English. In San Ignacio, I did the visit alone with no guide at all. I ask for a partial refund!”

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