20 de noviembre de 2012
The End
So now we are back from our trip to Buenos Aires, where we collected many experiences. We all hope we never forget these experiences and you never forget us.
Thank you very much that you visited our Blog and we hope you enjoyed it.
For now we are done, doing a Blog, so you may can't read anything from us, but next year we have many thinks to do. For Lucio and Patricio, the last year starts and Mika has to go back to Germany.
Thank you very much.
Lucio Vaccari, Patricio Jure and Mika Weßeler
Thank you very much that you visited our Blog and we hope you enjoyed it.
For now we are done, doing a Blog, so you may can't read anything from us, but next year we have many thinks to do. For Lucio and Patricio, the last year starts and Mika has to go back to Germany.
Thank you very much.
Lucio Vaccari, Patricio Jure and Mika Weßeler
The Returning
So now our week was over and we had to go back to Santiago del Estero. We went back with a smiling and a crying eye. The smiling was, becourse we would see our family and our friends again, but also we won't have such a nice time with our Classmates again.
On our way back, we had a last time to be together and have fun. Some of us played the famous argentinien game Truco, while others watched a movie like Batman Begins. In between we stoped in Rosario at 8:30 p.m. to eat and to watch a futball game of Argentinia. After the dinner, we went on on our trip home. Again we used the time to have fun, but while the time went on, everybody fell asleep.
Till 7:30 a.m. nearly everybody slept, but then we got waken up to phone our parents. At 9 o'clock a.m. we finaly arrived in Santiago, where our parents waited for us.
On our way back, we had a last time to be together and have fun. Some of us played the famous argentinien game Truco, while others watched a movie like Batman Begins. In between we stoped in Rosario at 8:30 p.m. to eat and to watch a futball game of Argentinia. After the dinner, we went on on our trip home. Again we used the time to have fun, but while the time went on, everybody fell asleep.
Till 7:30 a.m. nearly everybody slept, but then we got waken up to phone our parents. At 9 o'clock a.m. we finaly arrived in Santiago, where our parents waited for us.
8 de noviembre de 2012
More places we visited
PUERTO MADERO
Puerto Madero, also known within the urban planning community as the Puerto Madero Waterfront, is a barrio of the Argentine capital at Buenos Aires CBD, occupying a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank and representing the latest architectural trends in the city of Buenos Aires.
PUENTE DE LA MUJER
Puente de la Mujer 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.
La Fragata Sarmiento
ARA Presidente Sarmiento 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 ARA Presidente Sarmiento
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.
Tigre
Tigre 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. For locals and tourists alike, vintage mahogany commuter launches and motorboats are the favourite way to travel through its web of inter-connecting rivers and streams. English-style rowing clubs, countless marinas, humble dwellings and elegant mansions from the “Belle Époque”, such as the Tigre Club are to be seen, as well as small pensions and upscale lodges, restaurants, teahouses and simple picnic sites.
The House Museum Sarmiento is in the town of Tigre, in the Province of Buenos Aires. The house is located on the Rio Sarmiento lodged in her former Argentine president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.On the site there are old trees planted by himsell, "Mimbres", which are used as craft material.
The House was built in 1895. Nobody lives there at the moment, but it remains as a Cultural Museum, completelly picturesque. A school is working over there, giving special workshops for young children.
So, that was our last day in Buenos Aires. We actually were hoping to go to "Costa Park" but unfortunately, again, the weather did not help. It rained all day long. That was really a bumper. We could not appreciate others atractions like the "Fruits Museum" in Tigre. So, at five o'clock, we went ahead to a shop in Capital Federal, and after that, we head over to Santiago.
6 de noviembre de 2012
Temaikèn and Technopolis
On this day we went to "Temaikèn" and "Technopolis". These are completely different places. Let us show you why.
Temaikèn.
Temaikèn is a zoo in Belén de Escobar, vicinity of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the only AZA accredited zoo in that country. 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.For more information, clic here: Wikipedia
Tecnópolis.
Technopolis is a science, technology, industry and art mega exhibition, based in Argentina and the largest in Latin America. Located in Villa Martelli, in the Vicente Lopez division, Tecnopolis was inaugurated on July 14, 2011, by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.Initially, Technopolis was scheduled to be held in Buenos Aires after the Argentina Bicentennial celebrations.
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, 2010 in Buenos Aires for the "Day of Sovereignty", the anniversary of the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, in the area of parks of the Avenida Figueroa Alcorta. However, in October 2010, the Chief of Government of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, denied authorization in such plots as "the transport system would collapse in the city.
Thus, the national government decided to relocate the mega exhibition in an area of fifty hectares in the Province of Buenos Aires, located in Villa Martelli, Vicente López, at the former barracks of Army Battalion 601.
For more information, clic here: Wikipedia
24 de octubre de 2012
Our Third Day in Buenos Aires
In our third day we went to many places, but apart from others, this places were in La Plata City.
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 Dolores" in 1902. The parish church, which continued undergoing works, was designated a cathedral in 1932. n 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.
Well into the Paseo del Bosque lies the Museum of Natural Sciences, which ever since 1888, when it was founded by the expert Francisco Pascasio Moreno, has housed many of the most important scientific collections in Latin America.
The building, which features Greek Roman style, has an oval structure of more than 7,000 square meters divided into 23 rooms distributed on two floors.
The entrance is guarded by two smilodons or saber-toothed tigers. These animals inhabited the Pampa lands more than 10,000 years ago. On the top of the façade, a female figure can be seen showing the globe of the world with a background of sky and stars. At the front of the building, there are busts carved of remarkable characters of the natural science world, such as Charles Darwin and Alexander von Humboldt.
La Plata (in english known as The Silver) is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. 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 between 1952 and 1955.
The city
is home to two important football (soccer) teams: Estudiantes de La
Plata, that play in the first division, and Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata,
currently in second division.
sorce:wikipedia
The Cathedral of La Plata,
dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, is the largest Roman Catholic
sanctuary in the city of La Plata,, 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 Dolores" in 1902. The parish church, which continued undergoing works, was designated a cathedral in 1932. n 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.
sorce: wikipedia
Well into the Paseo del Bosque lies the Museum of Natural Sciences, which ever since 1888, when it was founded by the expert Francisco Pascasio Moreno, has housed many of the most important scientific collections in Latin America.
The building, which features Greek Roman style, has an oval structure of more than 7,000 square meters divided into 23 rooms distributed on two floors.
The entrance is guarded by two smilodons or saber-toothed tigers. These animals inhabited the Pampa lands more than 10,000 years ago. On the top of the façade, a female figure can be seen showing the globe of the world with a background of sky and stars. At the front of the building, there are busts carved of remarkable characters of the natural science world, such as Charles Darwin and Alexander von Humboldt.
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18 de octubre de 2012
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