San Antonio De Areco With Ranch

Highlights / General details

Founded under the protection of a chapel inaugurated by Don José Ruiz de Arellano in 1730 it retains the architectural lines of the Colonial and Renaissance buildings of the XIX century in spite of the passing of time.

El Ombú de Areco Ranch is a historical estancia (ranch) is located in San Antonio de Areco just over an hour's drive from downtown Buenos Aires and the birthplace of the gaucho tradition. The Late-Colonial style mansion is built in 1880 by Lieutenant-General Pablo Riccheri and offers visitors a magnificent setting for an unforgettable stay.

Enrique Boelcke is grandfather of the present owner Eva Boelcke purchased El Ombú in 1934. Eva's father, Osvaldo a renowned botanist, ran the estancia as a working ranch until his death in 1990. Eva was trained as an agronomist, but since 1993 has expanded her role as farm manager to include local and international estancia tourism.

El Ombú offers nine spacious, modernized bedrooms (6 doubles and 3 triples), with one suite bathrooms, large windows and an interesting array of period furniture. In winter guests enjoy the warmth of central heating in every bedroom, augmented, with the friendly glow of the gaucho's typical wood-burning salamander.

The estancia's living room is now a spacious common room in which guests can enjoy satellite TV or videos, a round of billiards, a game of chess or hand of cards. On the adjacent gallery is there also a ping-pong and metegol (table football).

The park and surrounding ranch land with its natural lagoons and small water courses running to the Areco River offer a rich habitat to a large proportion of Argentina's 1000 bird species.

No stay will be complete without at least one asado, the typical Argentinean barbecue of the world's finest beef raised free-range on the estancia.

Inclusion

Guides In Spanish, English and Portuguese; Bus tickets; Lunch.

Exclusion

Hotel pick-up and drop-off; Personal expenses; Gratuities

Hours of operation

Available daily departing at 8:30am.

Duration

Approximately 12 hours.

Location

Departs from Tangol's Downtown Office (Florida 971, Shop 31) or San Telmo Tangol (Defensa 831, San Telmo).

Itinerary

8:30-9:30am - Go to San Telmo Tangol or Tangol Center to begin the full day excursion by Argentina gaucha area.

9:30am - Depart from Buenos Aires to San Antonio de Areco by bus and enjoy a pleasant ride of 90 minutes to the north where we will go through farms and rangelands.

11:15am - When we arrive at the village station we`ll explore the little town and visit the Plaza de Arellano Ruiz de Areco, which is named because of the rancher who founded the town in 1728. You also can enjoy of the history that it has.

12:15pm - In the ranch will be welcomed with a typical argentine meet pie with people from the ranch. In addition, local gauchos will do a demonstration of their skills such a race ring, a rodeo action and grazing skills.

After seeing this kind of gauchos activities.

1:00pm - At lunch, we enjoy the Party with beautiful and folk dance show. We'll have a typical gaucho barbecue lunch with sausage pork, chicken, ribs and more.

2:30pm - After having lunched with multiple activities, we'll explore the ground on horseback. We can ride in the quite pampas, trek across the ranch to live a real rural experience. In addition we will have a beautiful and large pool, tennis tables, football and volleyball.

6:30pm - We`ll get back with the transfer to the bus station of San Antonio de Areco. From there, we`ll do the trip to Buenos Aires.

8:30pm - The tour will finish at Retiro Station.

Policies

Daily departure based on minimum of 2 passengers to operate.

Cancellation: 2 days prior 100% penalty. No show 100% penalty.

Complete information, including local telephone numbers at your destination, will be included on your Confirmation Voucher.

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