Mar del Plata 01
5 Days / 4 Nights
Day 01 - Mar del Plata
Reception at the airport and private transportation service to the chosen hotel with bilingual guide. In the afternoon, we will enjoy “Visit to the City” excursion, in private service with a bilingual guide. It includes sailing trips by motorboats*. We will go on a complete excursion across the city, visiting the most traditional residential neighborhoods which have the typical stones used for facing, abundance of wood and red tiles, and gardens that were repeatedly rewarded due to their designs and beauty. We will visit the water tower, Além shopping centers and harbor, Lourdes cave, fishermen’s dock, and colony of sea lions. We will travel across beach resorts from the south to the lighthouse of Punta Mogotes, Peralta Ramos forest, and golf courses. Coming back to downtown through the coast, we will find San Martín park, Cape Corrientes (the most advanced continental point over the Atlantic), beaches and casino, La Perla with the monuments of the poet, Alfonsina Storni, and the heroic characters, Don Quijote and Sancho Panza. We will visit the Civic Center, mainly the town hall, cathedral, San Martín square which features a monument built in honor of “the father of the nation” remembering his last days. The guide that will accompany us during this excursion will thoroughly inform us about gastronomy, different stores as well as special places that we will be able to discover on our own such as the handicrafts fair, museums, exhibition rooms, sweater factories, etc. We will sail by motorboat about an hour, observing the Sea Lion reserve, the Naval Base, Shipyards, Nautical and Motorboat Clubs, and a fascinating city view from the sea. At night, dinner can be enjoyed at a very good restaurant, including starter, main course, dessert, coffee or tea and soda or juice, mineral water or a beer. (It includes hotel/restaurant/hotel private transportation service). Accommodation. *Subject to season of the year and weather conditions.
Day 02 - Mar del Plata
Breakfast. After breakfast, private transportation service with bilingual guide to “Mar del Plata Golf (Playa Grande)” golf course, 1st golf round, caddie is optional, green fee included. After the round, private transportation service with bilingual guide is offered to the hotel. Free afternoon. Accommodation.
Day 03 - Mar del Plata
Breakfast. After breakfast, private transportation service with bilingual guide to “Mar del Plata Golf (Playa Grande)”. 2nd golf round, caddie is optional, green fee included. After the round, private transportation service with bilingual guide is offered to the hotel. Free afternoon. At night, dinner can be enjoyed at a very good restaurant, including starter, main course, dessert, coffee or tea and soda or juice, mineral water or a beer. (It includes hotel/restaurant/hotel private transportation service). Accommodation.
Day 04 -Mar del Plata
We will go on a private full-day excursion with bilingual guide to “Laguna, Sierras de los Padres, and Balcarce”. It includes “Visit to Fangio Museum”. First, we will visit "Laguna y Sierras de los Padres" (Fathers´ Lagoon and Hill). In the middle of the 18th century, the Jesuits settled down in the currentlyknown as Laguna de los Padres where a chapel with bedrooms and good storehouses were built. Jesuits achieved a rewarding work: they formed a small indigenous village. Nowadays, in Laguna de los Padres there is a reproduction of that Jesuitic village where historical documents are displayed. Then, we will visit José Hernandez’s Museum. He was the poet who made the Argentinean gaucho a mythical character through his famous book "Martín Fierro". He had his first contact with the countryside and the “gaucho” activities when he was living in his aunt and uncle where nowadays this museum is located. The landscape of small cultivated hills, diverse farms and small ranches show us the way to Sierra de los Padres, where we will discover a residential neighbourhood, restaurants, handicrafts stores, a golf club, and a “pulpería” (former meeting place for the gaucho at sunset). After that, we will visit “Balcarce and Fangio Museum”. Balcarce town is framed within a landscape of hills, farms, and folklore. It is the most important potato center in the country and home town of the quintuple international motoring champion, Juan Manuel Fangio. The agricultural and cattle-raising activity concentrates historical and contemporary ranches. Furthermore, we will find an outstanding research center (INTA), the satellite communication earth station; and we will go past some quarries which provide the city with the famous stone used in construction. The most attractive place in town is the Motor Museum, which was donated by the great champion and where Fangio has gathered all his prizes, cars, his history, and the history of his friends. We will also visit Juan Manuel Fangio motor racing circuit, his parents´ home, and the garage where he started to discover the secrets of mechanics and where his passion for motoring started to develop. Lunch is included at “El Casco” Ranch or a similar one, including starter, main course, dessert, coffee or tea and soda or juice, mineral water or a beer. Return to Mar del Plata. It includes entry passes to “José Hernandez Museum" and "Fangio Museum".
Day 05 - Mar del Plata
In due time, private transportation service to the airport with bilingual guide is offered to take the return flight. END OF SERVICES.