The Estancia was about an hour out into the country side. It was a nice change of scenery from seeing the city every day. Once we arrived we were immediately greeted by one of the gauchos (cowboys!) with a kiss on the cheek as we were getting off the bus. We were also offered very delicious empanadas and a choice of a drink of white wine, red wine, or orange juice. As we ate our empanadas and had our drinks we got a tour of the house that the owners of the ranch used to live in. The house is now open as a museum for people to see. The house was very interesting and it was much bigger than I expected for a single floored house. There was also right next to the house a sort of chapel. This chapel was for when a priest would pass through so that a mass or baptism or confession can take place.
We then got a wagon ride, pulled by horses, throughout the property. On the wagon ride we saw some little owls hanging out in a hole in the ground! After the wagon ride we got to ride some horses. The horses took us around the estancia.
We then ate lunch. We ate so much. At this point we were offered pretty much whatever drink we wanted. We started our meal with bread, then multiple variations of salad, and potato salad. We ate sausages, then a type of sausage that had pigs blood, pigs fat, and some other parts of the pig wrapped inside of pigs skin, then bife de chorizo, chicken, and then a filet mignon. For desert we had flan accompanied with dulce de leche.
After lunch they put on a show for us. We watched people dance, we watched a man sing while playing a guitar, and some of us even got to dance with the gauchos. The show continued outside as well. We watched some gauchos on horses rounding them up. The gauchos then proceeded in doing an activity that used to happen for marriages. The gauchos ride the horse as it runs towards something that holds a ring up and then have to catch the ring with this pen looking thing. They would give the ring to a girl and that’s the wedding process.
Overall it was a fun day and it was very enjoyable.