Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Guacho Day - Saturday 29th January

Up early and a 2 hour coach ride out to to the Argentinian countryside to Don Silvano Estancia Turistica (ranch) for the day, with the other tourists, to see the gauchos and life on an Argentinian ranch.

First some empanadas and wine to start!   Then a ride on a horse.


Lunch was a big BBQ accompanied by Argentinian wine.  First salad, french fries, sausages and chicken to fill the first plate.  Once we were full, we found out why we had 2 plates - the main part of the BBQ was about to arrive - meat, meat and more meat!! - you wouldn't want to be a vegetarian in Argentina!

While eating, we watched a great show of dancing and tango,

followed by a gaucho show outside with the gauchoes showing us some great horseman ship and how different traditions.


Charlotte loved the horse riding best (even though we never made it past a walk) and so we managed to do one more trip around the field before back in the minibus and back to Buenos Aires.

We are thinking about arranging another trip out to an estancia, where we will get a chance to do more riding.