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Published: April 26th 2009
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sunrise on the road to los esterosWe had our first weekend trip with GW to Los Esteros de Ibera, wetlands in the North East of Argentina. Ibera comes from Guarani (an indigenous population in that area of South America) and means "shinning water." The freshwater wetlands are protected in Argentina and are some of the largest in the world.
The decision to take a trip to this nature reserve came when it became too risky for us to travel to Salta, in the northwestern region of Argentina, because of dengue. We took a ten hour bus ride over night on Thursday and then a two hour van ride on a dirt road to get from Buenos Aires to the reserve. We stayed at a lodge on the reserve (http://www.posadadelalaguna.com/). It was an incredible trip and I loved getting out of this huge city to spend time in the middle of a reserve with very few tourist (besides our group of 12, there were three other tourists). Because GW organized everything, we had very nice accommodations, three meals and tea everyday and planned activities throughout the day. Park rangers took us to the info center to teach us about the nature found in the reserve, we went
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road through the marshland on several boat rides through the marshes and even went on a little nature walk and saw a family of howler monkeys. I decided I need to travel outside of Buenos Aires to see more of this diverse country! Every part is different (and a lot less crowded than this city!)
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