Day 1 - November 2, 2005 - Wednesday:  in Flight  We will meet at the Washington, D. C. Dulles  Airport (IAD) where we will board United Airlines Flight 847 leaving at 9:35pm arriving at Ezeiza International Airport (EZE) in Buenos Aires at 10:15am the next day.

Day 2 - November 3, 2005 - Thursday:  in Buenos Aires (L, D)  Upon arrival in Buenos Aires, we will be met by our Argentine hostess and transferred to the 4 Star Argenta Tower Hotel and Suites.  Afternoon city tour includes stops at the main square, the Teatro Colon Opera House Lunch will be served at a typical Argentine Restaurant. The tour brings you through the narrow streets of the old city and broad avenues that mark Buenos Aires' modern growth. Around Plaza de Mayo (May Square), you will see the major public buildings including the "Cabildo" (traditional Town Hall), the Metropolitan Cathedral and the "Casa Rosada", the rose colored presidential palace which occupies the site on which early colonial fortifications stood along the riverbank - today, after filling, it is more than a km. inland -. A highlight is a visit to La Recoleta, one of the most fashionable areas in Buenos Aires, best known for the astonishing necropolis of "Cementerio de la Recoleta" (Recoleta Cemetery) where generations of the Argentine elite have rested in ornate splendor. Also in this area, the "Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar", a colonial church being a national historic monument, is located. Recoleta's open spaces are surrounded by the most traditional cafés and restaurants. .Happy Hour will be at the Vivaldi Restaurant and Bar in the Argenta Tower Hotel where our group from the U.S. will be joined by a number of the 60 Readers of 52Best who live in Argentina.

Day 3 - November 4, 2005 - Friday:  in Buenos Aires (B, L, D)  Full day Fiesta Gaucho.  Guests will enjoy the opportunity to see the life of the Gaucho, the Argentine Cowboy. This is a visit to a typical "estancia" of the Argentine wet pampas, one of the most fertile natural prairies of the world and famous for its meat and cereal production. The guest will be received with "empanadas", "asado", good Argentine wines, and will be able to enjoy folkloric songs, dances and a show of Creole skill.  Open pit barbecue for lunch.  Afternoon return to Buenos Aires.  Evening dinner and tango show. Born around 1880, the tango was the vulgar dance and music of the capital's "arrabales" or fringes, blending gaucho verse with Spanish and Italian music. Carlos Gardel, "el zorzal criollo" ( the songbird of Buenos Aires ), created the "tango-canción" (tango song), taking it out from the brothels and tenements and into the salons of Buenos Aires. In the late 19th century the "Great Village of Buenos Aires" was becoming an immigrant city, where frustrated and melancholic Europeans displaced gaucho rustics, who retreated gradually to the ever more distant countryside. The children of those immigrants would become the first generation of "porteños", and the tango-song summarized the new urban style. Permeated with nostalgia over a disappearing way of life, the tango-show expressed the apprehensions and anxieties of individuals, ranging from mundane pastimes like horse racing and other popular diversions to more profound feelings towards the changing landscape of neighborhood and community, the figure of the mother, betrayal by women, and friendship or other important personal concerns.

Day 4 - November 5, 2005 - Saturday:  in Buenos Aires (B, L)    Full-day Tigre and Delta Excursion.  Lunch will be served along the way. This tour will offer the passengers a different way to explore and enjoy the nature, very close to the city. On the way north to Tigre, which is about 30 kms. away from BA, you will go through one of the most beautiful access to Buenos Aires down-town, passing by residential suburban neighborhoods with their calm narrow roads, yacht clubs, and mansions plenty of trees. Departing from Tigre's pier, on board of a typical "island launch", the green laberynth of channels and streams will open its doors to let you explore the nature of its islands, enjoying the views of beautiful riverside villas, Victorian docks, English gardens, and traditional rowing and boating clubs. For more that 100 years, the maze of rivers and channels of the Tigre Delta have been a favorite week-end gateway for "porteños" (as Buenos Aires inhabitants are called). During this relaxing off-site, you will leave the bustling city behind and enter a world that has changed little since the 1920s. 

Day 5 - November 6, 2005 - Sunday: in Buenos Aires (B) Free day. Your day at leisure to explore this fascinating city. A great web site to explore is expatvillage.com Shop, see the city the way the locals do, have a sensual evening on the town. Expat Village is an invaluable aid to help make Buenos Aires come alive.

Day 6 - November 7, 2005 - Monday: in Buenos Aires going to Tucumán (B) Afternoon transfer to the airport for your flight to San Miguel de Tucuman.  Upon arrival, the group will be transferred to the Garden Park Hotel.

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