La Plata, Argentina Travel Blogs

Stopover
Sep 27, 2005 (2 photos)

... Mar del Plata, a beach town about 5 or 6 hours from here. Can´t wait to have a paddle in the Atlantic!! Although La Plata is only an hour away from Buenos Aires, the poverty along the motorway was quite shocking. we passed a huge amount of shelters ...

Thursday-Divide and Conquer Part 2
Jun 2, 2006 (10 photos)

... church and at the Iron Bridge community. Lots of painting, staining, cement mixing, and more. Dan and Katie stayed at La Mision Betesda with Piqui and Vanessa and finished painting the kitchen and stained several tables and chairs. Gray, Doug and Chad ...

La plata(Sin plata)
Jan 29, 2006 (7 photos)

Great university town With One of the most amazing churches I've seen in my travels I've been told it was or is on the vaticans list of 12 top churchs in the world. Great nite life and Restaurants and very affordable, Made some great friends in this ...

Day 4 The soup kitchen in La Plata
Jul 5, 2005 (5 photos)

... La Mision and prepared to travel to La Plata. We then combined with a team from La Mision and rode in a 6 car caravan to La Plata, a university town an hour away. Here we worked with a sister church of La Mision, Mission Bethesda, and pastor Renaldo and ...

Day 5--finishing our work in La Plata
Jul 6, 2005 (5 photos)

We had breakfast at the hotel and then headed to Mision Betesda in La Plata. From here, we split up in our different teams again in order to complete all the tasks by the end of the day. The cooking team made delicious empanadas for our team for lunch. ...

Wednesday - Divide and Conquer
May 31, 2006

... know more please read Acts 2:42-47. They are truly living these verses. PRAYER LIST: - Economy of Argentina - Vision of La Mision Betesda - Continued development of church leadership - Success in educational pursuits: ranging from learning to read ...

Monday-Working for the College Ministry
May 30, 2006 (2 photos)

Monday We woke up and had time to spend as a team before we were off to The University House again. Instead of a bible study, we were there to paint so that many more bible studies can be enjoyed there. In a nutshell, the day consisted of scraping ...

Tuesday: Work
May 31, 2006 (9 photos)

... to use the Iron Bridge efforts to bring people to Christ, both those within the community and those in the La Plata area. 2. Thanksgiving for the answered prayers of great leadership and organization from La Mision Betesda. Things cannot go any ...

Saturday-Rough morning, great day.
May 28, 2006 (5 photos)

... what was considered an inevitable surgery. After an hour ride to La Plata in our van, we settled in to rooms at La Plata Hotel. http://www.weblaplatahotel.com.ar/presentacion.htm About 15 minutes later we headed for the church for lunch of home made ...

Working hard for the Lord...
May 31, 2006

... Reinaldo to a member's home and prayed with the family. Chad also had the opportunity to share his testimony. Katie stayed at La Mision Betesda and prayed with children and youth of the church. At the end of the day we shared a tearful/sad goodbye with ...

Back to BA!
Mar 29, 2006

... just that, but im back in the Mil House - party central and its bound to be trouble! Loads of people I met in the South of Argentina have made the standard route back to BA, so ive got a whole bunch of amigos to meet up with. I arrived in BA on a ...

Back in time
Mar 22, 2007 (8 photos)

... ) our way around the streets until we felt a little ill from the rough ride so went for a few drinks on the coast looking back over to Argentina. That night we went back to a fish restaurant in the plaza that we had noticed during the day. 

Mar de la plata One of Argentinas few beach areas
Jan 28, 2006 (10 photos)

Great place to soak up some sun, maybe do some gambling and have a great meal.

Sunday-Praise God
May 30, 2006 (4 photos)

... their friends to enter a saving relationship with Him. We heard the testimony of Roman and Dario about how when they came to La Plata from Entre Rios, they felt a sense of loneliness because they didn't know anyone or have a church home. They talked ...

Friday-The flight down
May 28, 2006

... Christ and a partner with this team. You can give by writing a check to: Second Presbyterian Church In the memo section: Argentina Young Couples - all team members ---GO--- "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." How, then, ...

Lying low in La Plata
May 2, 2008 (14 photos)

...  got to talk about Ireland and traveling etc. So it was a very worthwhile experience overall. The few days in La Plata were definitely packed and we got a lot in, especially in the food department. This was to turn out to be a ...

La Plata or bust!
May 2, 2006 (3 photos)

... from the ground by her neck! Decided to walk home and avoid both bars and being mugged Today was to be a short run to La Plata - 56 kms away. Immediately and totally lost! 5 hours and 140kms later we found it! Ecuador all of a sudden seemed a long way ...

So much fun with the name of this country.
Oct 20, 2005 (5 photos)

We took a ferry from BA to Colonia, a few hours away. And we slept most of the way. Not a lot else to do really. It was dead comfy though. On arrival in this tiny leafy little town, we noticed the tranquility of it all straight away - the slow place ...

Montevideo and Colonia del Sacramento
Jul 27, 2006 (2 photos)

... happy to spend more than a few hours. Its about 2 hours west of MVD, on the banks of the river between Uruguay and Argentina, and is gorgeous. Portuguese settlers came here in the 1700s, set up this beautiful little town, of which most is still in its ...

hidden secrets of Argentina
Mar 15, 2008

... can go out and drink), so the streets were packed outside the Irish bar.  We pretty much drank and hit on girls.  Every guy that goes to Argentina should spend some time in La Plata when school is in session.  You will not be disappointed.

Gauchita
Jul 11, 2007

This weekend I went out into pampas country with my boss and his family.  We headed to his wife's childhood home in the country.  It was such a nice and relaxing weekend, filled with good food and even horseback riding!  All in all, a nice ...

An Adventure in Taxidermy
May 28, 2006

... . On Saturday, we had lunch with Ruven, Berni and Felisa at a Chinese restaurant and went to Recoleta market. Today we went to La Plata, a smaller city about an hour outside Buenos Aires. It's main attraction (for Matt, at least) was the Natural Sciences ...

Architecture in Argentina
Nov 24, 2008

Before heading down to La Plata, I visited the Police Station again, to get a report filled out as I wasn't able to get one done on the weekend.  I then went and bought the cheapest camera I could find (electronics are really expensive ...

sailling to argentina
Dec 1, 2006

sailing trip started

Erster Tag auf See, Rio Plata
Nov 3, 2009

... See hat begonnen. Stimmt so eigentlich nicht ganz, seit wir Buenos Aires verlassen haben, fahren wir auf dem breiten Rio Plata, um das offene Meer zu erreichen.  Stück für Stück nehmen wir unser schönes Boot in Beschlag. Herrlicher Tag; wolkenloser, ...

Wet dream
Jan 14, 2009 (35 photos)

... in some South American countries, so it's understandable that Ben was sad to miss out on seeing a giant avocado.  Hopefully La Plata, the beautiful government centre of the Buenos Aires province, would be a suitable alternative for Ben. Off to ...

Zweiter Tag auf hoher See
Nov 4, 2009

Der 2. Tag beginnt wieder mit einem schönen Sonnenaufgang (05:10) und schönstem Wetter. Das Schiffsleben ist nun schon fast Routine, die manchmal von Mutter Natur mit einer extra hohen Welle unsanft unterbrochen wird. Die Lektoren verkürzen die Reise ...

3. Tag auf See
Nov 5, 2009

Die Nacht ist weniger ruhig, wie die vorangegangenen Nächte. Das Schiff ist unruhig und schlingert oft seitwärts. Schöner Sonnenaufgang in fast blauen Himmel, es ist kalt und windig, die See recht rau mit vereinzelten weissen Schaumkronen. Im Verlauf des ...

La Plata
May 20, 2006 (4 photos)

... off the back of trucks. I thought the Cork - Dublin train was bad but I suppose it was only 3 pesos for a round trip. La Plata has one of the most famous gothic cathedrals in South America. Also has a great Natural History museum with cool mummies and Inca ...

Thursday and Friday
Aug 4, 2007 (9 photos)

... the future, Pastor Reinaldo hopes to hold church service once a month in this historic structure.  After returning to La Plata, Chad gave a presentation to members of the church on the micro-enterprises program.  This program is designed to ...