In Buenos Aires, field days in an ecological house, a micro container house, a field post on the top of a hill, an Indonesian wooden house and two hundred-year-old wagons.See image galleryNear the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Weekend visited five Buenos Aires options to sleep outside the norm: no ranches, cabins, camping or hotels.The idea is to experience original designs and recycling, places where perhaps we had never imagined that we would ever sleep in rural tourism contexts, above all very quiet and surrounded by nature with its fauna.We took the Panamericana from Buenos Aires –45 kilometers– to get off in Escobar between farms with sheep, cows and horses, to the Tequila micro-house, a remodeled container.We are greeted by its owner, Mariana Pahor, and I tell her of my surprise at such a rural and silent setting five minutes from the highway.She explains it to me with a masterly metaphor: "It's an area of ​​hippies with OSDE who come looking for a different kind of life and send their kids to Waldorf schools in the area."A man on horseback wearing a beret passes by on the dirt road and the feeling is that we have immersed ourselves in the micro-environment of a very green, slightly urbanized area.Mariana gives us the keys to the gate and leaves us alone in the 600 m2 fenced with private pool.I enter through the large window-door that covers almost an entire wall and discover a comfortable space, well decorated and modern, equipped with a stove, electric oven, freezer, refrigerator, blue cedar bar with two benches, countertop with sink, good shower with three Scottish jets, double bed and sofa bed, plasma screen, stereo, hot and cold air conditioning, polished wooden floor, Moroccan lamps, crockery, spices, oil, salt, vinegar, coffee, tea, good cookies, toaster, bottle of mineral water and a portable chulengo for barbecue in the garden.The container has Durlock and wood insulation.The back of the bed overlooks another window, creating a certain air of a glass box with curtains: we chose to let in the moonlight.The name Tequila is from the Mexican flower and cactus murals by Florencia Barchuk on the front and back.In the morning we see hummingbirds in the salvias surrounding the house, which is not so micro: 12 m long by 2.40 m wide plus the roofed gallery with deck and table to eat outdoors (Tequila is pet friendly).During the day we bike through the farms –included in the service– and at night we go out to dinner at Paseo Mendoza, a sophisticated gastronomic pole of international cuisine.The rent from Friday afternoon to Sunday night –three people fit– costs $25,000.On weekdays it costs $6,500 per night (minimum two nights; $40,000 per week).Reports: www.escapate.net.arWe take the Buenos Aires-La Plata highway and RP 2 to the small town of Roberto Payró with its abandoned train station: we arrive via a conchilla route – remnants of the Río de la Plata – for an anthology barbecue with empanadas, under a grove in the Payró grocery store, from 1875, with its large wooden counter and farm objects.Then we continue 15 minutes along a local road between productive fields –100 km from home the Waze marks us– crossing two gates to Los Dos Vagones.We are received by the hospitable Miriam Gattari, who bought this 21-hectare field in 2002 to settle down to live and offer rural tourism with two hundred-year-old English wooden wagons.We lay down on deckchairs by the pool, downing our food watching a hundred sheep graze.At sunset we explored the wagon: polished lapacho floor, window overlooking the endless plain with cows, gallery with outdoor armchairs, comfortable bathroom with shower, outdoor grill, refrigerator, microwave, crockery, toaster, coffee maker, two televisions with DirectTV – it has a dining room and a living room with two sofa-beds –, refined country decoration and two hot-cold air conditioners.Only very good cold cuts, bread and drinks are sold here: you must bring your food (breakfast and snacks with cereals, juice, nuts, butter, honey, infusions, dulce de leche, liqueurs, puddings and milk are included).And there are many inhabitants: six dogs, three mares, eight cats and 50 chickens (the policy is pet friendly).In the evening we walked to the watering hole to row a boat and sat on the dock.After dinner we light the stove in a forest of walnut trees, orange trees, loquat trees, fig trees, pear trees and a bicentennial eucalyptus.Let's go to sleep with the lullaby of lapwings, toads, moos, crickets and the knock knock of a woodpecker.Also in the old town there is a loft for eight people with two bathrooms (and a third mini-car for two without a bathroom that looks like a doll's house).In the multipurpose room there is foosball, billiards, ping-pong table and comfortable armchairs.The maximum capacity is 35 people, ideal for yoga groups due to the extreme tranquility.The double sleeper car is $8,000 per night (minimum two).The minivan for two is worth $5,000.For a single night –and two days– the value is $12,000 for the double car and $8,000 for the minicar.> Reports: www.losdosvagones.com.ar |www.pulperiadepayro.business.site/We arrive at Tandil and on the outskirts we enter along a dirt road that begins on the route, a gentle slope towards the mountain between groves: we cross the gate of La Osera, an ecological house almost excavated in the hillside, based on the model of Michael Reynolds, pioneer in bioarchitecture.We are welcomed by Florencia Casano and Gonzalo Homps (architect).The couple and a team of students of this construction method raised the unique house with their hands (the hosts live 20 meters above).It is an “earth ship”, a self-sufficient building model explained by the architect: “Outside we have 1 °C and inside 18 °C;with the glazed front we take advantage of the sun and, as instead of bricks we put car covers full of mud plus thermal insulation, the heat remains constant.If necessary, you increase the temperature with an electric radiator and if one day there was no sun, there is a classic electrical network that we hardly use.In summer the house is also at 18°C.La Osera is spacious, comfortable and well decorated with adobe plastered walls and a 4 m long indoor nursery that brings nature into the house.The water is from a well and from the shower and the bathroom it passes through a filter, watering the plants in the greenhouse and the fruit trees outside, without wasting a drop.Florencia says that they used 550 car covers and 3,000 bottles inserted into the wall to increase the light.We give ourselves over to leisure: mates on the porch next to a purple almond tree in bloom and reading at the table next to the indoor greenhouse, looking at the valley that sinks at my feet with rows of yellow flower bouquets.Every once in a while we go down to Tandil to savor Creole dishes and bring cold cuts with sourdough bread (there is complete crockery and an electric oven).The bed is king-size and the house is so nice that, in the long run, it is difficult for us to detach ourselves from it: we go for a walk not far away to return to its shelter: the only thing we want is to rest.The price is $6,500 per night.One hundred meters above La Osera we arrive at the Sierra Calaguala glamping, one of those huts used by field workers from the area, recycled to give you comfort with a little bath and hot water on the top of a hill with a view of the Tandil mountains.We leave the car below because of the steepness of the road and the owner comes to look for us in his truck.We parked in front of the owners' stone house and walked 50 m to our accommodation next to an Australian tank as a swimming pool and a deck to observe the immensity, almost in 360°: the feeling of isolation at the top is total.Perhaps the most exact definition is a mountain refuge with a glass front wall, equipped with a refrigerator, toaster, hot water, electricity, radiator –there is a double ceiling and insulation–, crockery, two single beds and an armchair for a third (there are to bring sheets).The idea is to use it as a base to go for a walk in the mountains on different circuits, sometimes accompanied by the Labrador retriever Mora and the horse Fidel, who lives loose in the 4 hectares of this family.The food must be brought and cooked over firewood, but we are 15 minutes from the city center (it is contemplated that one cut some vegetables from the farm).Sometimes deer, hares, partridges, foxes, falcons and hummingbirds can be seen sucking the flowering almond tree on the other side of the window.> Reports: Instagram: glamping_sierracalagualaWe sail 25 minutes from the Tigre River Station to an island surrounded by the Angostura, Espera and Esperita streams in a semi-hidden corner of this flowing underworld.Pedro Galuzzi is waiting for us at the pier to install us in a refined and unusual teak wood house brought disassembled by boat from Indonesia in 2000. Pedro is an architect and is aware of the unusual piece of design he has for rent: “When the I bought it five years ago, I knew that they must have brought carpenters from Indonesia to put it together… and look at the details of the railings carved by hand by skilled craftsmen”.We go up the stairs and leave our bags to explore the first level of this house raised on three-meter stilts: it has a large open-air gallery, living-dining room, full bathroom, kitchen and double bedroom with a large semi-covered balcony and a view of the creek and a park with no neighbors.On the second floor there is another bathroom and more beds: they fit up to 7 people in total (there is complete crockery, electric oven and refrigerator-freezer).I put a matambrito on a slow fire in the chulengo on the grass and I sit down to contemplate the jungle landscape: camalotes drift past in nomadic drift and sometimes a fish jumps, leaving a concentric halo in the water.Solitude and silence attract a fauna that escapes the hustle and bustle of the busy Delta.The rental of La Indonesia per week costs $140,000 for Christmas ($120,000 January and February).> Reports: www.madreselvadelta.comweekend.profile.com - |© Perfil.com 2006-2022 - All rights reserved Intellectual Property Registry: Address Number: , , , |Phone: ||Email: [email protected]