Day Trip.

[PhilipDT]

I know there have been a million threads posted on this subject so if anybody remembers a good one a can point me to the right search terms that would be great.

I want to get out of the city for a few hours tomorrow. Already been to tigre a bunch. Are there any other localities that I can get to by commuter train or colectivo that are worth a visit. A museum would be cool but just a big park could keep me entertained.

Thanks

 

[Davidglen77]

Take a trip to La Plata, the city is really beautiful these days. I was there last week after not going for about 2 years and was really impressed. Looks like a small city in Europe.

 

[mcaffa]

Take a trip to La Plata, the city is really beautiful these days. I was there last week after not going for about 2 years and was really impressed. Looks like a small city in Europe.

Wow, you and I must have gone to two different La Platas then. The main plaza is nice but I wasn't all that impressed by the rest of the city. Although, it has been about 2 years since I've gone. Has it really changed that much in such a short amount of time?

 

[Ries]

Second on La Plata.
About a 1 hr. collectivo ride from the station in Retiro.

Small, walkable city.
Great museums. I really like the Natural History museum- its like going back in time, especially the skeleton rooms.
Its in a very nice park, with gardens and follies and outdoor restaurants.
http://www.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/museo/
Incredible photos, courtesy of Thomas Hobbs-
http://www.buenosairesphotographer.com/2008/09/natural-science-museum-in-la-plata.html

the Cathedral is well worth a visit, too.
The tour to the top of the tower is great.

Its an easy one day trip, leave mid morning, hop on a return bus either before or after dinner.

9 Museos within about a mile of each other.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&s...local_group&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAQQtgMwAA

I think whether you like La Plata or not depends on you- I liked the architecture, which ranged from a lot of casa chorizos in a variety of styles, including art deco, up to brutalismo, which would be their public theater downtown.
I liked the sleepy, walkable quality, I loved Parque Bosque, I went to the automotive museum, which is actually pretty good,
http://www.coleccionrau.com.ar/index2.htm
I had a good asado outside in the parque, and in general I found it relaxing, pleasant, and very argentine in every way.
Good little art gallery there, too, which does artist residencies for foreign artists, so they have a show every couple months of an artist from abroad who has been living and working there-
http://www.residenciacorazon.com.ar/artists.htm

the cemetery is supposed to be pretty good, too, a mini version of Recoleta.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

Another endorsement for La Plata -and don't forget the Le Corbusier house http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/curutchet/index.htm I've spent ages trying to find an angle to take one photograph that will do the whole structure justice but I think it really needs to be seen in real life to be appreciated.

 

[Amargo]

O la isla Martín García?

 

[estebandepraga]

And in La Plata there is a free open roof bus turistico yes FREE unlike the one here every Sat, Sun and holiday until March.Shows you all the sights!
La Plata gets my vote!

 

[BROOKLYN]

O la isla Martín García?

Or how about la Isla Maciel?????

 

[Moonwitch]

La Plata is good. I went last winter. Just somewhere easy, cheap and different to go to.

 

[marksoc]

With star ratings:

Inside the city:

Boliviatown (*) and Feria de Mataderos (***) : The official downtown boliviano near the Liniers train station: 300 meters of restaurants, business, and lots and lots of inmigrants. Fun in Saturdays, good and cheap bolivian food. Feria de Mataderos: 10 minutes by bus from the Liniers train station, folkloric dances, Argentinian food (not only meat!), food market, music, and lots of fun people (and some tourists).

Close:

Lujan *** - National Basilica, Museum of National History and Transport, good meat, including that restaurant run by nuns.

Capilla del Señor **: Unbelievably peaceful little town so close from BA, and so far. Good restaurants, Recoleta-like cemetery, Provincial Museum of Journalism (or something like that).

Escobar and El Cazador neighbourhood *: Not too much to see, but has a nice view from above (weird in Buenos Aires) and the Paraná near by. It is like Tigre before it was gentrified, has a market near the river.

San Vicente *: From the Ezeiza highway going towards route 6, east of Cañuelas. Little town with a very little pond, and the summer house of Perón (**), a trip back to the 1950s, including Museum of Peronism, his tomb, interesting memorabilia and statues. The town denizens can direct you to a good restaurant in front of the railway (don´t remember the name).

Not so close:

Mercedes * : Nice town, nice "pulperia"-like bar one block from the main plaza, and 2 km from the center the last surviving real pulperia of Argentina (the bars of the gauchos in the 19th Century).

Navarro - Little provincial town with little lake, for a picnic and mate. In the way there General Las Heras is a little town with a based local population, a couple of nice restaurants, murals and I thin some Berni paintings (If I am not wrong Berni was born there).

San Antonio de Areco *** - Gaucho-chic, Palermo Gaucho, cool little city.

Chascomus or Monte - Nice towns with lakes, Monte (**) is a favorite of mine, the lake is two blocks from the main square, some nice places to eat, a couple of small museums.

Mmmmm, I don´t remember anymore right now.