Argentine Farm: Let People Turn Back Time

There are thousands of farms and pastures in Argentina, like bright pearls scattered on the green pampas prairie. These farms have become places for people to travel and relax.

In Argentina, most manors engaged in tourism have a history of hundreds or even hundreds of years. Some are the homes of ordinary farmers and herdsmen; Some are private villas of historical celebrities, rich people, generals and even presidents. Their old owners come from all corners of the country, so the architectural styles of the manor are also different. Some big estates, such as 19 of Argentine President Hugo in entre rios province in 1950s.

Erquiza's manor covers dozens of hectares, and almost all the building materials are shipped from France. It is not only large in scale, but also beautifully built, which can be compared with the royal palaces in Europe. This is a rare palace building.

The small manor of ordinary agricultural producers shows the face of ordinary rural areas in the past. Although these manors have experienced long historical changes, they have basically retained their original historical characteristics and become an important historical and cultural heritage of the country. In some manors, not only the original antique furnishings are preserved, but also the production facilities, barns, cowsheds and bars are the same as before.

There are various modes of manor tourism in Argentina. There are many manors for sightseeing within hundreds of kilometers near the capital Buenos Aires. Most of these manors are for foreign tourists, so the service items are diversified. Among them, the larger manor also has guest rooms, and some can receive hundreds or even hundreds of guests at a time. The service projects here generally include agricultural and animal husbandry production performances. In different seasons, show cattle and sheep, milk, make cheese, farm or harvest, etc. Guests can visit the manor by carriage or horseback riding, and watch tango and folk song and dance performances.

There is also a kind of manor, which is a leisure manor specially prepared for local people to have a holiday and rest. There are generally no singing and dancing performances here, mainly sports and rest. Football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, billiards, swimming pool and other sports facilities are readily available. These manors generally have vast forests and beautiful lakes and mountains, and are resorts for recuperation.

Near the Andes, some manors started mountaineering exploration by taking advantage of their geographical advantages. It is very convenient not only to provide horse equipment, but also to rent clothes, boots and shoes, boats and vehicles. At the same time, some people are responsible for the training, tour guides and safety of tourists. The manor near the sea and rivers and lakes takes water sports as the main tourism project, and generally builds rooms for families and many people. Visitors can cook by themselves, which is convenient and economical.

The author visited a farm named Santa Susanna and experienced the manor tourism life in Argentina. This farm was built at the end of 19 and has a history of 100 years. Its owner was a Scottish immigrant at that time. The existing land of Saint Susanna Farm is 1.200 hectares, and it mainly grows grain. 10 years ago, the current farm owner opened part of it as a tourist manor. The owner's room of the farm is a Scottish farmhouse style bungalow with a building area of more than 200 square meters, which is very simple. Now the front of the house has been transformed into a history museum, displaying furniture, utensils, farm tools and collected works of art and crafts used by the owner in the past. In front of the house is a big green garden with flowers in full bloom and green grass.

Out of the master's room, through a row of tall trees, came to a stable with forty or fifty horses for tourists to ride. Visitors can also watch riding performances and puncture performances. The so-called ring-piercing performance is that the rider flies over a wooden door and uses a small wooden arrow to pass through the small ring hanging on the door frame, which is a little bigger than the ring. The riders are all stunted, and the arrows are all true, winning the cheers and applause of tourists. During the performance, the riders bent down and kissed the audience in front again and again, which was very humanized.

An important program of the manor tour is to taste the local barbecue. A huge restaurant that can accommodate four or five hundred people at the same time is transformed from an old barn. All the furnishings in the restaurant are pure wooden tables and chairs used in the old farm. There is an old-fashioned small bar in front of the restaurant. There are several chairs and a coffee table made of cow bones and cowhide in the hall, which is not only an antique of the exhibition, but also for tourists to sit down and rest. On the barbecue grill about seven or eight meters outside the restaurant, beef and sausage are roasted with charcoal fire, which is full of smoke and fragrance.

After lunch, the song and dance performance began. In the passionate music, a pair of dancers danced the tango and a folk dance that showed the life in gauchos. Then, the tourists left the table one after another and entered the venue, singing and dancing with the farm service staff in jeans. Different from the situation that there are many waitresses in domestic tourist attractions, the waiters here are basically men. Almost all of them are generalists, not only riders, but also restaurant waiters, tour guides and dancers, all of whom have extraordinary skills. They wear traditional jeans and are very powerful.