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By: Nestor Imberti Posted: 30/10/2017
Ampascachi only offers horse riding holidays in Argentina.
Horse culture is part of Argentina’s traditions.
Exploring this country on horseback is an unforgettable experience.
Argentina is known for being a vast land, its natural beauties and culture. It's like imagination: without limits and with an extraordinary diversity of natural settings. Horse riding tours in Argentina are a unique, unforgettable experience.
Culture and traditions in Argentina
Argentina is known beyond its borders for the culture, characterised by urban life, music, tango and rural life, the latter characterised by the famous Argentine cowboy, the “gaucho”.
The traditions and life styles of the gauchos are influenced by the regions they live in: in the north or south, in the central part or the Pampa Humeda, in the west along the Andean mountain chain or in the east, on the Argentine coast.
Argentina is an inspiration for musicians, writers and poets who express the charming beauty of the country in their art. Argentina is rich in culture through different social living conditions; many places have remained the same traditional life style throughout hundreds of years and is a remarkable contrast to life in big cities like the vibrant metropolitan Buenos Aires, an outstanding city in South America.
This country is internationally recognised for three pillars:
- Tango: Although this dance raised from different cultural backgrounds, it is a vivid expression of the personality of the capital Buenos Aires.
- Gauchos: The typical Argentine land worker has a close relation to his horse.
- Football: The most famous sport that is lived with a lot of passion. Important football players with an international career are Maradona and Messi from Argentina.
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Riding in Argentina
Argentina is an interesting destination for tourists as it offers a wide range of possibilities for alternative activities or green tourism: trekking, climbing, ropeways, walking in the mountains, etc. Among all these activities, riding in beautiful landscapes is the most recommendable.
Horse riding holidays is an activity that is getting more and more popular among riders who are fascinated not only by the endless landscapes, but also by the opportunity to meet the locals in places where ancient traditions are still alive. Ampascachi offers various riding programmes to make these fascinating experiences: “The entire Calchaqui Valley” or “The Quebrada de Humahuaca”.
During these riding holidays you get to several interesting places and in order to make sure that our guests enjoy careless days on horseback, we take care of the professional organisation and the entire logistics.
A new definition of “luxury”
Luxury today has been defined in a different way and does not solely mean staying at 5 star hotels or dining in extravagant restaurants; luxury holidays embraces opportunities to live something different, to live extraordinary and exotic sensations and experiences.
This type of luxury aims to experience new sensations, to discover extraordinary places where the intensive tourism has not reached yet; and all this on horseback, on one of our Peruvian Paso horses what allows riders to see and observe a country from a different point of view and the luxury consists in “living a genuine experience”. In vehicles you can reach many places, but only a horse is able to take you where the really interesting places are. Anybody can watch the Hill of Seven Colours (Cerro de los Siete Colores) from far away, but being there close on the back of a horse is different and Ampascachi gives you the opportunity to live this experience.
Horse riding holidays are the new definition of luxury with exclusive trail riding tours designed to ride in nature, dive into new cultures and traditions and discover the typical food of each region.
The well-planned and professional combination of common tourism and riding is a new way of spending your holidays that is getting more and more popular. Riding, horses and nature are the ideal mixture to take a break, relax and flee the daily routine and the stressful rhythm of the cities.
Do you like Argentina as your next horse riding holiday destination?
We encourage you to download the catalog of our horseback riding tours in Northern, Central and Western Argentina. Discover Argentina on the back of a Peruvian horse and with our team of equestrian tourism experts.
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