Buenos Aires Trip Overview
Dust off your cowboy boots for a day on an authentic estancia (ranch) tour and see Argentina’s legendary gauchos, cowboys, demonstrate their unique horsemanship and wrangling skills. This small-group full-day tour takes you to San Antonio de Areco, where you can saddle up for a horseback ride or carriage ride, enjoy a traditional folklore show and tuck into a typical Argentinian asado barbecue.
Languages Offered: Spanish & English
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Duration: 9 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Trip Category: Shore Excursions >> Ports of Call Tours
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Dust off your cowboy boots for a day on an authentic estancia (ranch) tour and see Argentina’s legendary gauchos, cowboys, demonstrate their unique horsemanship and wrangling skills. This small-group full-day tour takes you to San Antonio de Areco, where you can saddle up for a horseback ride or carriage ride, enjoy a traditional folklore show and tuck into a typical Argentinian asado barbecue.
Languages Offered: Spanish & English
We are granted by the safe travel seal of World Travel & Tourism Council.
Stop At: Estancia El Ombu de Areco, RP 31, cuartel VI, Villa Lia, Buenos Aires San Antonio de Areco Argentina
After your cruise ship docks in the Buenos Aires port you will board a minibus type vehicle and drive to San Antonio de Areco. On the way there, you can enjoy the views of the pampas and receive some explanation from your guide.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Museo Draghi, Calle Lavalle 387 Frente a la Plaza Principal, San Antonio de Areco B2760BME Argentina
Paradores Draghi is the ideal corner for those who enjoy the cultural attractions offered by a place. There you will access a tour through the sumptuous space where you can see a vast collection of pieces of rural goldsmithing of the nineteenth century, which reveals the mysteries of a period of national identity consecration of the figure of the Gaucho as a main character of that time.
In Paradores Draghi begin your journey through history not only as a spectator, but also as a participant in the process of making exclusive goldsmith pieces that take shape through the hands of artisans recreating the techniques of traditional goldsmithing as their founder, Juan José Draghi, did in the 60s.
Once you get to the town, you will enjoy a tour of the village including a walk around the historical downtown of the city.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Boliche de Bessonart Bar, Zapiola 151, B2760 San Antonio de Areco, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
In the grocery and drinks store, the peasants and country people who came to the town to provide themselves and do errands to the cereal house, the store, the doctor, the bank, used to meet. There “stopped” Don Segundo Ramírez, the gaucho who was later a character in the novel by Ricardo Güiraldes.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Estancia El Ombu de Areco, RP 31, cuartel VI, Villa Lia, Buenos Aires San Antonio de Areco Argentina
Make your way to the exclusive ‘El Ombu de Areco’ Estancia. At this place, you will have a chance to take rides on horses or go for a ride in a carriage while enjoying some traditional cold cuts, cheeses and beverages. Then, you will enjoy a typical Argentinian barbeque of the finest meats. While you have dessert, you will be able to see a folklore show followed by a demonstration of gaucho skills.
Duration: 5 hours
