Buenos Aires to Tandil, 350km
Today we leave Bs. As. behind. As we got to bed late we sleep till 8am, have breakfast and check-out by 10am. Then we surf a bit, get a call from home, make the reservation for the 26th when we're back in Bs. As. There are also available hotels in Mendoza over Christmas.
We drive off at around 11.30am and easily get on Highway, err, routa 3. It's past the airport. Immediately out of the city we realize how flat the pampas are. However, the horizon is always interrupted by alleys of trees and little forests. We mostly pass pastures, sometimes corn and wheat fields.
We've got 3057 km ahead of us to Ushuaia.
On the spur of the moment we decide to go to Tandil a bit off routa 3 as the guidebook says we shouldn't miss the old mansion at some corner. We're positively surprised as Tandril is a quiet but not dead town. The streets are busy but in a nice way. At the Plaza Independencia we get some help by the tourist information. Tandil's highlight one hundred years ago was a rocking rock till it fell over in 1902. Now there is an imitation and some other rock standing firm – both we missed as we just strolled leisurely through town. We even strike up a chat or two with locals. We feel very comfy. Tandril's got quite an impressive and atypical church. At the bar El Fuerte we have a sandwich and that our dinner for today. Friendly service. But it takes time like other things, too.
We find shelter at the Hosteria Lo de Olga Gandolfi, Chacabuco 977 (one block off Av. España or 4 from the plaza), (02293) 440258. It's recommended by Claudio's book and costs 150$ (50 USD). And we stock the car with some drinking water as we always feel thirsty.
Yet as we learn later the rocking rock (Piedra Movediza) is what Tandil is really famous for – next time. And it has several nice little parks worth visiting.
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