Estancia El Ombu de Areco San Antonio de Areco

On Saturday we decided to take a trip out of town and took a two hour bus ride to San Antonio de Areco (Areco for short), a small town in the Southern Pampas. We managed to translate the sign in the bus station that informed us that only passengers were allowed on the platform, with the exception of the following disadvantaged groups who can have someone to accompany them: Juveniles; Disabled; Elderly; Foreigners who can't speak Spanish. We’re sure we fit into at ...

After 2 weeks of studying hard and just getting over the "culture" shock, we finally started to take in some of the local activities.

Nik has been hanging out for the past week with the local kids at the local YMCA, playing soccer and basketball and ping pong! He is enjoying it so much that he doesnt want to miss one day! While he hangs out with the local kids, I take Tango lessons!.

It was certainly uneasy ...

... arranged for this guy to come so that she could photograph him. He was amazing to watch as he honestly could make the horse do anything he wanted both with and without reins. After a couple of days of luxury, we had to get back to reality and moved on to San Antonio de Areco for the Gaucho festival that was on that weekend. San Antonio is a small town that hasn´t really moved on from horse based transportation, although saying that, it also seems to be the town where ...

... and school children performed traditional dances. There was a painting competition for kids, as well as band performance. A short walk away from the town square is the a small river, and the famous pink bridge (dont ask me why it is famous, but it is supposedly the main attraction). On the other side of the river is the Gaucho museum, displaying the ...

... totally knew how Argentinians played bj and I played again and I threw away my ticket. Ok, lesson learned. I see chick on the back of a motorcycle and she looks hot and then I realize that a lot of chicks look hot on the back of motorcycles and then I realize that I can`t see her face because she has a helmet on and that that theory of mine keeps getting proved over and over again. Another thing that ****** me off is that the ****ing subway runs ...

De tanto pensar, un principio de itinerario se me vino a la mente. Partiendo desde Buenos Aires podría comenzar mi viaje hasta San Salvador de Jujuy (18 a 20 horas de viaje $ 200 el pasaje, una vez allí tomar un descanso en un sitio muy bonito que se llama Termas de Reyes (http://www.termasdereyes.com/) que si bien en la p ...

... dicevo... dopo san telmo nella vigilia, a natale mi sono alzato discreamente presto e non avendo impegni di pranzoni o ritrovi familiari ( :-(...) mi sono incamminato in una cita' praticamente deserta verso la zona del porto nuovo, Puerto Madero, dove ho incontato per lo piu' arzilli vecchietti intenti a fare jogging: questo quartiee sembra essere il piu' nuovo della citta' e in effetti tuttti i vecchi edifici che fungevano da depositi per il porto, ora sono palazzine con ...

... to laze around and watch the local kids jumping into the (quite stale and stagnant) water. Friday  The whole point of going to this town is to spend the day at an estancia which is an old ranch house that resembles something you would see in "Gone with the Wind". Our second day in town was spent the Cinacina estancia on the outskirts of town for a day of cowboys and ranch life. We were greeted with ...

Today we are off to The Pampas. I have made arrangements for another rental car for two days, and I walk over to pick it up. By the time I'm back, everyone is downstairs waiting. We load the car and off we go. We are confirmed La Bamba estancia, which is located near the typical gaucho town of San Antonio de Areco, a UNESCO World Heritage site. On the way out of town, I take the wrong turning and I soon realize are headed back towards the ...