26- LA ORIENTAL RANCH
Locality: Junín, in the northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires
Distance from Buenos Aires: 257 Km
Way of access: National Route Nº 7, up to the Km 235

Description: this 1050-hectare space has become a typical farming and cattle breeding estancia, with direct sowing to best preserve the environment. Its French style and decoration perfectly combines with the forest and pampas surrounding it.

It only has a few though very elegant rooms with huge bathrooms, and living and dining rooms. The suites brought from all over the world are still kept in prefect conditions.

The aromas and flavours of homemade food lure guests into tasting breads, homemade sweets and vegetables from the market garden. Roasted beefs, pork or lambs are rituals that guests fully enjoy at the estancia.

Activities: if guests do not wish to move too far from the main house they can practice archery, play croquet, bowls, ping pong or parlour games. For those wishing to rest or read they can do it on comfortable armchairs under the centenarian grove of oaks, eucalyptuses, bananas, araucarias and cypresses. There is also a swimming pool, hikes across the forest, rides on sulkies, horseback and bike rides. Amongst its attractions it has El Carpincho Lagoon, ideal for aquatic sports, rides on boats or canoes, and for fishing onboard or from the shores.


27- LA ISABELLA
Distances:
750 Km from Buenos Aires
160 Km from Rio Cuarto
160 Km from Villa Mercedes (San Luis)
45 Km from Vicuña McKenna

Description: it is a 6000-hectare estancia dedicated to full-scale farming and stockbreeding where guests can go along with the gauchos and tractor drivers on their daily works to learn about ranch handling. Once there, you will see 5000 cows, bulls and calves of the Aberdeen Angus breed, which are born between August and October.

It has impressive and old eucalyptuses, paraisos and a great variety of pine trees. The fields extend ten kilometres from east to west and five kilometres from north to south. What once were clusters of chañar, are now prairies of alfalfa, lots of maize, sunflowers, soy or wheat.

There are prairies covered with weeping grass and some lagoons in the zone of the sandbanks; there you can watch ducks, flamingos, storks and other birds. There are vizcachas, hares, foxes, owls and zorillas in the large reed fields.

The estancia has a ranch house dating back to 1904, but it has all the commodities that modern life demand. Besides, it offers a cluster of buildings, each with a particularity that makes it essentially different; although all of them have suites comfortably equipped with heaters. There is also a swimming pool and a library, along with all the commodities that will make of them your own country house.

VIP category corresponds to the elegant rooms of the historic ranch house, and the standard to those of the surrounding houses.

Activities: rides on horseback, sulky or buggy, hikes, tours across the country in 4 by 4 vehicles, flora and fauna watching, taking part on rural tasks, nocturnal tours across the country with the chance of hunting vizcachas.


28- POSADA EL RECUERDO
Locality: San Antonio de Areco.
Distance from Buenos Aires: 113 Km
Way of access: at 5 Km from San Antonio de Areco, on Provincial Route Nº 41 bound for Vagues.

Description: it is a place where relax and resting are guaranteed; it has an ample park four hectares wide with multiple gardens, orchards and a great diversity of pine trees and other tree species. It has ample rooms with full private bathroom, all with a view of the park; in total there are four twin rooms, with the chance of turning two of them into triples, lounge and dining room with satellite TV, a ten by five-metre swimming pool in open air, an organic market garden and fowls. Besides, it has 20 hectares dedicated to agriculture (wheat and soy mainly).

Activities: this estancia is an ideal space for bird and local fauna watching, to go on hikes or watch the country sunset. You can also go on horseback rides and visit both, the City of San Antonio de Areco and the workshops of jewellers and artisans.