The end!!

Well, this is the end of the trip and of this blog, we had a lot of good moments, knew places all of days and we would like to come back nearly. The best trip school far! We hope that this blog can be fun for you! Maybe in the future we will do other blog telling other school trip! Bye, greetings and hugs!!

Come back

We were in the bus, very sad.. This were the time to come back to Santiago. The bus ripped and the come back started. We played cards in the bus, specially truco. At 9 pm we stopped in Rosario and we ate a good dish of meat and potatoes watched Argentina's football match. Then of this the travel continuous, and we watched two movies. In the other day we arrived at 9 am, and we came back to our house.

We dont take photos in our trip.

Journey´s end!

The last day had been started, we were very excited and we had a lot of expectatives. We had a breakfast in the hotel and we went to Puerto Madero. In our opinion this neghborhood is the most beautiful of Buenos Aires. The houses are very luxury and the buildings are very big. We know the "Woman's Bridge" and some restaurants. Then we went to the "Sarmiento Frigate". We knew inside of this ship, very nice. The coordinators and the teachers had a surprise for us, because we ate in a catamaran! Then in the same vehicle we "travel" in the water to "Sarmiento's House". An old and genial place. Then of this we came back to the city and to the hotel. In our opinion one of the most school's trip we have.

Puerto Madero
Puerto Madero, also known within the urban planning community as the Puerto Madero Waterfront, is a barrio (district) of the Argentine capital at Buenos Aires, occupying a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank and representing the latest architectural trends in the city of Buenos Aires.

The New Port of Buenos Aires was completed in 1926.

Every street in Puerto Madero is named after women. The Puente de la Mujer (Women's Bridge), by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is the newest link between the east and west docks of Puerto Madero; a museum inaugurated in 2008, the Fortabat Art Collection, itself resulted from an initiative by Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat (the wealthiest woman in Argentina).

Numerous new residential high-rises of up to 50 stories have been built facing the Rio de la Plata since 2000. These include El Mirador of Puerto Madero Towers, Renoir Towers, El Faro Towers, Chateau Tower of Puerto Madero and Mulieris Towers amongst others. Many other high-rises that have recently been inaugurated include the Le Parc Tower and Hilton and River View Towers. Office and hotel high-rises are also being built such as the Repsol YPF Headquarters and the Conrad Buenos Aires Hotel & Resort, whose construction is slated to begin at the end of 2008 and completion scheduled for late 2010.

Woman´s Bridge

"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.

Designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Started in 1998, it was inaugurated on December 20, 2001, and is the only one of Calatrava's works in Latin America. The architect has described the design as a synthesis of the image of a couple dancing the tango.

The 170-metre pedestrian bridge weighs 8 tonnes, is 6.20 m wide and is divided into two fixed portions, 25 m and 32.50 m long respectively, and a middle section of 102.5 m that rotates on a white concrete pylon, allowing vessels to pass in less than two minutes. 

Sarmiento´s Frigate

Sarmiento´s Frigate is a museum ship, originally built as a training ship for the Argentine Navy. She is considered to be the last intact cruising training ship from the 1890s.

The ship was originally built for the Argentine naval academy. The Sarmiento´s Frigate made thirty seven annual training cruises including six circumnavigations of the globe. The ship was retired as a seagoing vessel in 1938, but continued to serve as a stationary training ship until 1961. She is now maintained in her original 1898 appearance as a museum ship near the center of Buenos Aires. This ship was named for Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the seventh President of Argentina.

A single torpedo scuttle using gravity expulsion exited at the bow. The scuttle has been removed and the exit port welded shut, but in the current museum configuration a torpedo is suspended in a position on the main deck ready to enter the former scuttle entrance. Additional torpedo storage is provided below this main deck.

Tiger

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.

The area's name derives from the “tigres” or jaguars that were hunted there, on occasions, in its early years. The area was first settled by Europeans who came to farm the land, and the port developed to serve the Delta and to bring fruit and wood from the Delta and ports upstream on the Paraná river. Tigre is still an important timber processing port. The “Puerto de Frutos” (fruit port) is now a crafts fair located in the old fruit market by the riverside. The Naval Museum is also nearby. Antiques shops, riverside restaurants and pubs, the casino and Parque de la Costa, an amusement park and its renowned natural beauty make Tigre a popular tourist destination throughout the year.

Tigre is also the starting point for a visit to the Paraná Delta. 

Sarmiento´s House

In 1860, Sarmiento already had his house in the Delta. According to history books, he occupied his island by shooting his firearm, like the American conquerors used to as they expelled the Indians from their territories. He called it “Procida”, after the small island located off the shores of the Italian city of Naples, in southern Italy, and he built there a beautiful bridge which he called the same name as the famous bridge in Venice: “Rialto”. 
The house is a small wooden building with a tile roof. According to historians such as María del Carmen Magaz and María Beatriz Arévalo, the ground floor was a free space, whereas the first floor would hold the only room in the house. The walls, built with pre-built boards, give us the idea that this is a much more elaborated architecture than meets the eye.

Sarmiento died in 1895. Carlos Delcasse purchased the house and then donated it to a public welfare institution, which in turn donated it to the Education National Council. In 1966, a decree passed by President Illía declared it National Historical Monument and, therefore, today it is preserved in the same shape as the rest of the Delta wooden houses. Anyway, the fact that all of them were built after Sarmiento's house must be born in mind. 

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Travel to Buenos Aires 4th Day

In teh 4th day, we got up a few later compared to other days. We climbed to the bus and went to the zoo Temaiken. In our opinion this zoo is the best of the country, because is very big and the variety of animals is enormous. When the visit ended, we went to a restaurant call "Barba Roja", a place where you can bought the best beer of the country (artesanal beer). After, we get in the bus and went to technopolis. In technopolis we knew a lot of games of the future and interesting things. We were there 2 or 3 hours and at the sunset we visited "Unicenter Shopping". We played bowling, pool and ate in Burger King, and we came back to the hotel

Technopolis

Technopolis was planned to take place in the city of Buenos Aires after the Bicentennial of Argentina. The mega-exhibition was planned to be the end of the Bicentennial celebrations organized by the national government in 2010, and inaugurated on November 19, 2011 in the city of Buenos Aires by Sovereignty Day, the anniversary of the Battle of Vuelta de obliged, in the parks of Figueroa avenue Alcorta.5

However, in October 2010, the Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, denied empowerment in these lands as "collapse transport system of the city" 6 7

The government decided to relocate the megamuestra in an area of ​​fifty hectares in the province of Buenos Aires, located in Villa Martelli, Vicente López, property located next to the collector of the Avenida General Paz.8 This land, part of the old farm Saavedra , was awarded the army Batallion 601, Logistics 10, 1930. This place was one focus of an uprising "carapintada" under President Raul Alfonsin. The place was totally converted by the Bicentennial Unit and the major part of their land corresponds to Bicentennial Park, home of the sample Tecnópolis.9

During the inauguration of the new TEC-Technopolis TV channel, the April 18, 2012, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced that the show would open Technopolis in July 2012, and announced the imminent launch of a sports channel integrated into the public system media open digital television, which would transmit the London Olympics 2012.10

Temaikèn

Temaikèn (Bioparque Temaikèn) is a zoo in Belén de Escobar, vicinity of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the only AZA accredited zoo in that country. The name is a portmanteau of tem (earth) and aiken (life) in the language of the native Tehuelche people.

Covering 178 acres, Temaikèn specializes in native Argentine wildlife and exotic and threatened species. In addition to the zoo the Temaikèn Foundation owns the Osununu wildlife conservation area. It also has programs to manage and protect the Parana Pine ecosystem and butterflies and orchids within the national wildlife conservation system.

Temaikèn Biopark is a popular tourist destination.

TOP ATTRACTIONS

Film 360: In this film there is the opportunity to watch "The ark of life", an audiovisual experience that develops with the OmniVision system 360 °: 360 degree projection screen enclosure 56 meters, and special effects lighting , scenic and sensory. 

The Farm: A direct contact with the Argentine countryside, where visitors can enter the pens of sheep, goats, turkeys and chickens, feeding calves and enjoy various rural activities. It also has an organic garden and an amphitheater to appreciate the mechanical milking.

Square sensations: A section for the kids, where they can recreate experiences and sensations of some animals, starting from an early age to know, love and respect wildlife.

Centers: Various technological resources, scenic, audiovisual and computer converge in their mission to arouse curiosity. Provide an overview of the habitats, ecosystem functioning, and the dangers and threats that are subject species. But fundamentally, invite to become aware of the actions that everyone can take to preserve the environment.

Source of information:

Technopolis

Temaikèn 

More of Temaikèn

Travel to Buenos Aires 3rd Day

The third day we got up early, at 7 am, and we went to "La Plata city", the trip took 2 hours. When we arrived we stoped the bus near the cathedral, and we knew the square front of the cathedral. Then we went inside to the church and we knew to the museum of the cathedral. In this museum we reachead the top of the building using an elevator, and we saw a great view of the city.
In the lunch we ate in one restaurant a rich food and then we leave and we went to the "La Plata Museum". An interesting museum where you can saw the animals and plants a lot years before and the things in the future. We try to visited the "Estadio Unico of La Plata" but we can't. At sunset we came back to the city and we visited "Abasto Shopping". Of course all of us ate in Mc Donalds, we bought some clothes and we came back very tired to the hotel.

La Plata

La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. According to the 2001 census, the partido has a population of 574,369 and its metropolitan area has 694,253 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of 186,524.

La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of Buenos Aires was federalized in 1880, and it was officially founded by Governor Dardo Rocha on 19 November 1882. Its construction is fully documented in photographs by Tomás Bradley Sutton. La Plata was renamed Eva Perón City (Ciudad Eva Perón) between 1952 and 1955.

Located in the northeastern province of Buenos Aires, limiting to the northeast with Ensenada and Berisso, northwest with the Berazategui and Florencio Varela, southwest and south, with San Vicente and Coronel Brandsen and southeast with Magdalena, occupying an area of 893 km.next to the antarical ocean drug.

Source: La Plata

Cathedral of La Plata

The Cathedral of La Plata, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, is the largest Roman Catholic sanctuary in the city of La Plata in Argentina, and one of the largest in Latin America. This Neogothic edifice is located in the geographical center of the city, facing the central square, Plaza Moreno, and the City Hall. 

Inspired by the European cathedrals of Amiens and Cologne, its plans were drawn by architect Ernesto Meyer under the direction of city planner Pedro Benoit. The cornerstone was laid in 1884, and it was consecrated as the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in 1902. The parish church, which continued undergoing works, was designated a cathedral in 1932.

In the 1930s, fearing that the foundation had been underestimated, workers halted construction. The spires were left unfinished and the exterior brick work was left undressed. In the mid 1990s, an ambitious plan of restoration and completion was carried out. The 1990s plan included the following:

• Strengthening the foundation.
• Reversing the damage in the bricks and joints.
• Completing two spires, six turrets, 200 pinnacles, and 800 needles.
• Installing a 25-bell carillon.

Source: Cathedral of La Plata

La Plata Museum

The La Plata Museum is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina. It is part of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (Natural Sciences School) of the UNLP (National University of La Plata).

The La Plata Museum was inaugurated on November 19, 1888 (the sixth anniversary of the city's founding). As his collections had been the museum's leitmotif, Moreno was named its first director. Moreno initially struggled to maintain the institution and its collections, a result of sparing legislative appropriations which budgeted for only nine assistants. These limitations helped persuade Moreno to incorporate the museum into the new and growing University of La Plata (today Argentina's second-largest) in 1906. This led to his retirement as director, though by no means of his role as its preeminent caretaker, which occupied him until his death in 1919.

Source: La Plata Museum

Pictures of La Plata

Travel to Buenos Aires 2nd day

Places visited in our first day in Buenos Aires

When we arrive to Buenos Aires, we have a lunch in a luxury restaurant and we went to River Plate stadium, called "The Monumental" and "Antonio Vespucio Liberti" in Nuñez neighborhood , the biggest in the country and the nineth in America. It was built in 1938. It's located in Figueroa Alcorta and Udaondo avenues.

Source: The Monumental

Then we went to Riachuelo River. "Matanza Riachuelo River" has a lenght of 64 km, born in province of Buenos Aires in La Boca neighborhood and ends in "Rio de la Plata".

His name when he born was "Matanza River". From "La Noria Bridge" where starts Gral Paz avenue that delimit all of "Capital Federal".

Source: Riachuelo River

Finally we visited to "La Boca Neighborhood". It's located in southeast limit of the city. His name is known because the neighbothood is ubicated in the end of the riachuelo. Other reason of his name is for the Soccer Club called "Boca Juniors".

"La Boca" was found in 1536. In this neighborhood was located the principal port of Buenos Aires . Nowadays "La Boca" is known like a neighborhood where have houses and "conventillos" of a lot of colours, principaly green, yellow, red, blue. This is because the foreigners, when they came to our country, was very poor, and they used all the paint that they found. This is the reason of the lots of colours which each house have.

The most important entry of this neighborhood is called "Caminito", and we walked for this entry. In this pictures we can see the houses and the diferent kinds of colour.

Source: La Boca

Places visited in Rosario

The City of Rosario 

The city of Rosario it is in the center-west of Argentina, in Santa Fe. It's the third city most populated in the country, and it's the city NO capital most poblated in the country. It's located in the western margin of Parana River. About the vegetative growth, it was estimated a poblation of 1.028.658 in 2010. Now its estimated a poblation of 1.193.605, incluided the capital "Rosario" and 23 municipalities more. Almost %80 of the production in the country is cereals, oils and their derivated are exported by Gran Rosario's port. Focus educative, cultural and sporty have news museums and librarys. The city of Rosario is known how "Argentinian flag crowd" for his most popular edification "Flag's Monument"

Source: Rosario 

The “Flag's Monument” 

It's a building which is in Rosario, in Argentina's country. It's ubicate in "Flag National Park", the place when the General Manuel Belgrano created the flag of the country, in February 27th of 1812, near Parana's River.
It was designed for the architects Angel Guido and Alejandro Bustillo, and Alfredo Bigatti with Jose Fioravanti was the collaborators. The monument has a tower with 70 metres

Source: Flag's Monument  

“Rosario's Catedral” 

The Rosario's Cathedral is dedicated to Rosario's Virgin, in Rosario's city. It was located in 789, Buenos Aires street. First it was a parish, which was build in 1731. In 1934 was named cathedral.

Source: Rosario's Catedral  

"The way"

 Distance: 1050 km
 Estimated time: 12:24 hs 

Source: Ruta 0

"The outward journey"

  We start our trip the 2nd of September, we travel in a bus from the terminal at 9 p.m. At first the atmosphere in the bus was very crazy, all of our classmates was jumping and eating, all of their was very happy. We arrive to Rosario the next day at 8 a.m. We knew "Monumento de la Bandera" and the Cathedral of the city. We stayed there one and a half hour, we came back to the bus and went to Capital Federal.
  We traveled 4 hours more and we arrive to Capital Federal. We went to a luxurious restaurant in Nuñez, and we went to the stadium of River Plate "The Monumental". This beautiful stadium is the biggest in Argentina. After this we go to knew the neighborhood "La Boca" a traditional place. A feauture of this place is the houses. All of the houses are paint with differents colours, especially blue, yellow, red, green. At 7 p.m. all of our classmates and the teachers was very tired, so we went to the hotel. The name of the hotel is "Dazzler", a wonderful and fantastic hotel.

"¡Vamos a Buenos Aires!" - "¡Lets go to Buenos Aires!"

Nuestras expectivas del viaje a Buenos Aires son de conocer lugares nuevos de la capital de nuestro pais. Al mismo tiempo informarnos culturalmente sobre dichos, debido a que forman parte de una esfera mundial muy importante. Buenos Aires es un destino turístico por sus bellos paisajes y además por los antiguos lugares que posee. Queremos conocer a nuestro país, y por esto es una de las razones que queremos ir. Además, compartir esta última experiencia con nuestros compañeros de curso. Esperamos que sea un muy buen viaje. Tuvimos experiencias anteriores en esta provincia, por ejemplo cuando fuimos de vacaciones de invierno, conocimos el Monumental (cancha de River Plate), shoppings y cines. Nos parece una provincia muy atractiva. Y otras experiencias que tuvimos fueron anteriores viajes de estudios. Fuimos a Salta y Jujuy, Rafaela, Mendoza y Carlos Paz, en donde la pasamos muy bien y cumplimos con nuestras expectativas

Our expectations of trip to Buenos Aires is to know new places of the capital to our country. In the same time inform us culturally about topics, because they are very important. Buenos Aires is a tourist destination thanks to his beautiful scenery and his old places. We want to know our country, and this is a reason to go. Also, share this last experience with our classmates. We hope to this trip will be nice. In last experiences we go to this city, for example in the winter's holidays, when we know the Monumental (River Plate stadium), shoppings and cinemas. In our opinion, this city is very attractive. Others experiences we have was last school trips. We went to Salta and Jujuy, Rafaela, Mendoza and Carlos Paz, where we had fun and complete our expectatives.