Reply To: Argentina – advice?

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yonasl wrote:

On the subject of over-tourism etc. Trying to organise two weeks in Argentine (flights booked for end Oct 2024) and struggling to plan stuff.

– There are a couple of things we want to do: glaciers, trekking, maybe horse riding and gaucho/hacienda/asado experience
– I am Spanish so shouldn’t struggle to find those activities locally

Unfortunately, all I find online are links to super expensive “experiences” where an hour of horse riding is $100 and a night at an hacienda $500pp. It is like some gringo is paying top dollars and Argentinians are obviously taking advantage of it.

Any recommendations for a local contact that could help me arrange this as the internet is failing me in this case?

Thanks!

We had a lovely 2 night stay at Estancia El Ombu de Areca a couple of years. It’s a family run estancia which now offers rooms. Obviously it’s for tourists but I imagine what you see in terms of horsemanship and the asado is fairly authentic as the gauchos had been working on the property for many years. I’m sure it wasn’t £500 a night.

We did the Iguazu falls from both sides in 2016 and although there were people with selfie sticks they weren’t intrusive but maybe that was before the instagrammers arrived. On the Argentinian side there is hotel from which you can walk to the falls early in the morning or in the evening. It used to be a Sheraton – not sure what it is now.