Back to Santiago del Estero

We started the journey back at five o’clock and we stopped to have dinner in San Nicolás, where we saw a match between Argentina and Paraguay. Some of us were really sick and a doctor came to cure them, the teachers and coordinators help a lot.

We finished eating and we set to Santiago del Estero. We arrived around half past seven at Sarmiento Square.

Conclusion:

The trip was pretty good, it was useful to know about Buenos Aires in a way that we wouldn’t have the opportunity to do. We saw plenty of history, culture, how the society was divided, politics and economy of the capital of our big country, Argentina.

The place we liked most was Tecnópolis, because it has lots of games and technological innovations, it excited and thrilled us.

Also, it was nice to do this trip with our classmates, because it was our last school trip and we get closed one another.

Last Day in Buenos Aires City

We woke up at half past eight, we made our baggage, had breakfast and save everything in the bus. We set to “Puerto Madero”, doing a city tour around this neighborhood while a guide told us some things about this place.

Puerto Madero

“Puerto Madero” is one of the 48 neighborhoods in which Buenos Aires City is divided. Its location near the centre of the city, the extension of it and the sight to the river made this place one of the most exclusive of Buenos Aires.

It is called in that way owing to Eduardo Madero, a merchant that presents three project of port, the last was approved by the President Julio Argentino Roca in 1882.

We met the hall of Hilton Hotel, an extremely famous hotel, we crossed the “Puente de la Mujer”, a rotary port designed by the Architect Santiago Calatrava in Buenos Aires City.

Puente de la Mujer

Puente de la Mujer (Spanish for "Women's Bridge") is a rotating footbridge for Dock 3 of the Puerto Madero commercial district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is of the Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge type and is also a swing bridge, but somewhat unusual in its asymmetrical arrangement. It has a single mast with cables suspending a portion of the bridge which rotates 90 degrees in order to allow water traffic to pass. When it swings to allow watercraft passage, the far end comes to a resting point on a stabilizing pylon.

After that we visited the frigate “ARA President Sarmiento” which turned in 1897 into the first bout modern school that Argentina built specifically with that objective.

Fragata Sarmiento

It was built in England, did 39 journeys around the world crossing 1.100.000 nautical miles always in peace missions. Now it is in the Dock III, in Puerto Madero, turned into a museum.

We went over inside the frigate it and it started raining, consequently we went back to the bus going to Tigre, where we had breakfast on a bout.

Tigre

Tigre (Tiger) is a town in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, situated in the north of Greater Buenos Aires, 28 km (17 mi) north of Buenos Aires city. Tigre lies on the Paraná Delta and is an important tourist and weekend attraction, easily reached by bus and train services, including the scenic “Tren de la Costa”. It is the principal town of the Tigre Partido.

The town sits on an island created by several small streams and rivers and was founded in 1820, after floods had destroyed other settlements in the area, then known as the Partido de las Conchas.

Later, the ship took us in a ride to the Sarmiento house. A guide explained us that in that place lots of school were founded, Sarmiento lived lots of time, wrote books, etc. We came back to the bout and due to the rain we could visit the “Parque de la Costa” and “Puerto de Frutas”.

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Fourth Day

We woke up nearly eight o’clock, we had breakfast in the hotel and we went to the “Bioparque Temaikèn”, a zoo near to Buenos Aires City. It was a extremely freezing day!!

“BioParque Temaikèn”

Temaikèn is an enormous zoo at the south of Belén de Escobar, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Its name came from tem (earth) and aiken (life) that represents the respect of the natives to the environment.

The “bioparque” is the only institution of South America accredited by the AZA (American Association of Zoos and Aquariums). It is divided in four big areas: Africa, Asia, indigenous and aquarium.

In this excursion we were also divided into two groups, each one with a different guide, we saw the birds, the aquarium, the kangaroos and an amazing film in a big room with screen of 360° about the origin of the universe and each being in out planet.

After that we went to a restaurant and later we arrived to Tecnópolis.

“Tecnópolis”

It is a big exhibition of science, technology, industry and art, take place in Argentina, and the biggest in Latin America. It is in the “Parque del Bicentenario”, in Villa Martelli neighborhood, Vicente López, at the north of Gran Buenos Aires.

It was inaugurated the July 14^th of 2011, by the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

There we went to a game of racing cars, we listened about the biofuels and some of us went to an earthquake simulator. Unfortunatelly, it started raining a lot and we had to go away there after a while of having arrived.

We wanted to go to the shopping Unicenter, but the coordinators made us a joke and they took us to a different place where furniture was sold. We got angry but they took us to Unicenter after that but we just stayed an hour.

We had dinner and we went to sleep at the hotel.

More Information: Temaikèn and Tecnopolis

Third Day In Capital Federal

Third Day

We woke up at quarter past seven, we had breakfast and we left to La Plata. After one hour we arrived, it is a beautiful city, full of squares and green areas.

La Plata

“La Plata” is the capital of Buenos Aires province, Argentina, it is also the capital of La Plata Township. It is 56 km at the south of Buenos Aires City.

It was founded by the governor Dardo Rocha the 19^th November of 1882.

The city was planned to work as the capital of the province. Also it is the principal politic, administrative and educative centre of the province. Its population is more than 187.00 habitants.

Firstly, we went to Plaza Moreno where we admired the Metropolitan Cathedral of La Plata “Inmaculada Concepcion” that is the most important temple in the city.

Cathedral of La Plata “Inmaculada Concepción”

It was designed by the Departmen of Engineers of Buenos Aires, directed by ^Pedro Benoit and the architect Ernesto Meyer. It was inspired in the cathedral of Amiens (France) and Colonia (Germany). The style is neogótic. It is divided into five naves.

Then we got into the cathedral and we flipped the principal nave. We took lots of photos while the guide explains its history. After that we paid six pesos to meet the museum of the cathedral and go up to the top of the tower and see the entire city from there. We enjoyed it a lot.

After that we had lunch at a local restaurant, from there we went to the “Estadio Único” but we couldn’t go through it because there was a meeting inside. Later we went to the Natural Science Museum.

“Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata”

It was founded in 1888; it has a neoclassical style and a Columbian ornamentation.

It figures as one of the 10 best museums of natural sciences in the world. With more than three million of objects in its collection: fossil mammals, reptiles, birds, etc.

In the return voyage, one of our partners lost his bag at the restaurant. He tried to recover it but he couldn’t. He was very sad.

He went to Abasto Shopping and we agreed to buy him a new t-shirt of Boca, that he had lost and was the most important. He was euphoric, he couldn’t believe it and thank us.

After the shopping we were taken to a television program called CQC, we saw it until twelve o’clock and we went back to the hotel, to sleep.

Sources: La Plata, Catedral de La Plata, Museo de Ciencias Naturales

Second Day in Buenos Aires

Sources of Information in Spanish: Congreso Nacional, Casa Rosada, Catedral, Teatro Colón, Cementerio de Recoleta

Places Visited the First Day in Bs AS.

We arrived to Buenos Aires City around twelve o’clock, and we had lunch at a restaurant where we met our guide, Cristian. From there, we walked to "El Monumental", River Plate's football stadium.

After that, we come back to the bus and we traveled through the "Villa 31" until we arrived to La Boca's neighborhood. We saw the "Bombonera" Boca Juniors's stadium.


La Boca

La Boca is a neighborhood of Buenos Aires City, in Argentina. It is located in the south-east limit of the city. It has that name beacuse it’s in the mouth of the Riachuelo. All in all, the neigborhood is wll-known because it contains Boca Juniurs Football Stadium.

It is surrounded by the Stretts Regimiento de Patricios, Av. Martín García, Av. Paseo Colón, Brasil, Dársena Sur and Riachuelo river. It limits with the neighborhoods Barracas at the west, San Telmo at the north y Puerto Madero at the north-east, and the locations of Dock Sud and Avellaneda al sur.






We stopped at the Riachuelo river. There Cristian told us a story about women that went there to see the muscular river workers.


The Riachuelo

The Matanza-Riachuelo river, called Riachuelo in its mouth and Matanza river in the major part.
It origínate in Buenos Aires province, it is the south limit of Buenos Aires City and ends in the River Plate. In the basin, 2240km², live 3 500 000 persons.

It receives lots of industrial waste, especailly from the tanneries, which make it the third river most contaminated in the world. Recently, plenty of studies warned about the horrible efects of the contamination on the population, specially childhood.


Then we went to the hotel "Dazzler Tower", in San Telmo neighborhood, it was a big building with a beautifull hall. We went to our bedrooms, some of us had a shower and we ate at a restaurant by walk, due to it was near to the hote. We ate "milanesa" with potatoes, and we went back to the hotel and slept until the next day


_ More information in spanish: La Boca , Rio Matanza-Riachuelo

Rosario's Places Visited

The City of Rosario

It is in the center-east of Argentina, in Santa Fe and it’s the third city most populated in the country, after Buenos Aires and Córdoba. Rosario is located on the coast of Paraná river Above this river there is a port which transports big bulk. Its population was about 1.028.658 in 2010. The Rosario department includes Rosario and other 23 municipalities. It is the nucleus of a very important economic región, being in a geographical strategic position in relation with the Mercosur. Almost 80% of the nation production in cereals, oils and their derivatives are exported by Gran Rosario’s ports. Focus on the education, cultura and sports, it also has important museums and libraries. The city is known as the argentinian flag cradle, being its most popular building the“Monumeto a la Bandera”

Source: Rosario

The “Monumento Histórico Nacional a la Bandera”

It is a building simbol of Rosario city, in Argentina. It is settled in the “Parque Nacional a la Bandera”, the place where General Manuel Belgrano unfurled and hoisted by first time the Argentinian Flag, the February 27th of 1812, on the coast of Paraná river. It was designed by the arquitects Ángel Guido y Alejandro Bustillo, and collaborated the sculptors Alfredo Bigatti y José Fioravanti. Later Eduardo Barne’s works and Pedro Cresta’s appliances were added. Also, Lola Mora’s sculptures were recovered. It has a 70 metres tower with a balcony on the top, a crypt in honor of Gral Manuel. In the subsoil there is a room in honor of Américan’s Flags.

Source: Flag's Monument

“BASILICA CATEDRAL NUESTRA SEÑORA DEL ROSARIO”

This temple started with a little oratory, after that, in 1996 it was designated “Basílica menos” and recently in 1998, it was designated Santuario. Its current facade was done by Gerbino Shwards, who introduced a porch and the french style. When we get into the church, we find out a big nave. We keep walking and before the altar, at the left there is an old baptistery in 1998. The main altar was built with carrara mármol and in Renaissance style.

Source: Cathedral