Conclusion

This trip was one of the best, met many places, we learned things we did not before, and we had fun with our classmates, we made more friends among us, and we shared many things. Honestly this trip exceeded our expectations. I thoroughly enjoyed as it is our last school trip. I hope you have enjoyed our blog, we did a lot of dedication!!

Temaiken, a beautifull zoo

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Back to our city!!

We woke up early and went down to the hotel room with our bags while we were having breakfast. We went to visit some places before returning to Santiago, met Sarmiento's house, and had lunch in a very nice boat. After the tour we went to the bus, ready for a long journey. We stopped at a nice service station where we could have dinner and watch the match for Argentina (soccer), then returned the group and watched a movie to fall asleep and wake up in our city.

The last day in Buenos Aires

After we had to go, we made the last visits of the trip.

The first was puerto madero

PuertoMadero, also known within the urban planning community as the Puerto Madero Waterfront, is a district 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.

El puente de la mujer

Inside this place, we havePuente 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. 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 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.

Tigre

Then we visited Tigre that it is beautiful.Tigre is a town in the Buenos Aires Province. 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 house of  sarmineto in tigre

The House Museum Sarmiento is in the town of Tigre, in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
The house is a small wooden building with a tile roof. According to historians such as María del Carmen Magaz and María Beatriz Arévalo,. Sarmiento died in 1895 and  the house works as a museum and library. According to the Municipality of Tigre, which was in charge of building the the glass structure around it in order to protect it from the inclemencies of the weather and the passing of time.



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The fourth day in Buenos Aires

We got up early and went down to breakfast at the hotel restaurant. At eight in the morning we went by bus to Temaikèn and there we could see the different animals, we also saw a movie at 360 degrees, it seemed so real!!Later, around noon we went to lunch at a nearby restaurant and hours later we headed Tecnopolis, the day was cloudy and rainy, so Tecnopolis to leave the group headed out soaked, went to the hotel to have a shower and dress for dinner. After dinner we returned to the hotel and went to sleep.

 

Temaikèn

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.

• Temaiken

Tecnópolis

Tecnopolis 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.

• Tecnopolis

The third day in Buenos Aires

La Plata

La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 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. La Plata was renamed Eva Perón City (Ciudad Eva Perón) between 1952 and 1955.


The 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 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 of the UNLP .

The building, 135 meters long, today houses 3 million fossils and relics an amphitheatre, opened in 1992, and a 58,000-volume library, serving over 400 university researchers. Around 400,000 visitors pass through its doors yearly, including a thousand visiting researchers.

More information of that places in spanish:

• Museo de La Plata
• Catedral de La Plata
• La Plata

The second day in Buenos aires

• Pink House
• Nathional Congress
• The Plaza de Mayo
• Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
• Columbus Theatre
• Recoleta