South and west of Buenos Aires are the endless fertile plains of the Pampas. This is quintessential Argentina - where moody gauchos gallop across vast farmlands, and home-reared beef is cooked over an open asado. In the depths of the wispy pampa grass lie the working farms where gauchos tend to their cattle by day and sing traditional songs by night.

Staying on an estancia is unmissable. They vary from luxuriously decorated mansions to simple cattle farms, but all offer horse riding for all ages and stages. At all estancias you are welcomed as a guest of the family and sometimes you even dine with them...