Global Courant
The body stretched out on a deck chair, on the edge of a pool, is a recurring postcard in the daily landscape of Las Termas de Río Hondo. However, over the last two decades, the main tourist destination of Santiago del Estero has diversified its offer and it is no longer just about simply enjoying that incomparable leisure time in a hotel park.
The circuit of places to visit has its highest points in the modern International Autodrome and its Automobile Museum, the 18-hole course of the Golf Club (inaugurated in 2018), the Tara Inti Nature Reserve (Isla del Sol) and the traditional peñas folkloric, such as the renowned Chany Jr., on the side of Route 9.
But there is more.
Visitors can also schedule the unmissable empanadas al carbon that they offer next to cement ovens on public roads, the Agua Santa Park -created in homage to San Francisco Solano-, the Municipal Market, the El Dorado Water Park, the three public pools of thermal water from the La Olla campsite, the wooded strip -with children’s games, sculptures and murals- of Parque Güemes and the pieces made by basket makers, in front of the Casino del Sol.
Access to the Tara Inti Nature Reserve (Isla del Sol), in Las Termas de Río Hondo.
The Municipal Secretary of Tourism, Culture and Sports adds to this circuit to retrace a varied schedule of activities for the winter holidays throughout the year.
There will be a preview on the night of July 8 at the General San Martín Cultural and Craft Center, where the “Independence Day Gala Night” will take place.
The next day there will be a Zumba class in Plaza San Martín (at 10 a.m.), the play “Pinocchio” will be presented on the Hermanos Ábalos Stage (at 5 p.m.) and “Patio Santiagueño”, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Here are the rest of the proposals to schedule.
July 14, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.: “Patio santiagueño” in Eva Perón square. 7/15 at 10: Zumba class in San Martín square. 7/16, from 4 to 6:30 p.m.: two performances of the play “Fran, Flor y El León” at the General San Martín Cultural and Craft Center.
Campsite with public pools of thermal water La Olla, in Las Termas de Río Hondo. 7/16, from 5 to 8 p.m.: “Patio santiagueño” with live shows in Plaza San Martín and, at 6 p.m., on the Hermanos Ábalos Stage. 7/16 to 18: Federal Tourism Space “Itinerant Argentina Winter 2023” in Güemes Park; on the same days, qualifying tests and the final race of Turismo Pista at the Autodromo. 7/21, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.: “Patio santiagueño” in Eva Perón square. 7/22: “Mornings with more energy / Zumba Class” in San Martín square; in the afternoon, in the same public space, “Patio santiagueño”. 7/22 at 8:00 p.m.: “Retro party” with popular dance in San Martín square.
– 7/23 at 5:00 p.m.: performance of the play “Superheroes” on the Hermanos Ábalos stage; at 18, in the same place, “Patio santiagueño”.
24/7 in the morning: religious festival “Commemoration of San Francisco Solano” in the Agua Santa Park.
Sculpture of San Francisco Solano in the Agua Santa Park. 24/7 in the afternoon: popular festival “The meeting of the peoples”, in homage to San Francisco Solano. 7/29 in the morning: Zumba class in San Martín square; at 17, in the same place, “Patio santiagueño”. 7/29 at night: “Folklore Nights” at the Hermanos Ábalos Stage.
– 7/30 in the morning: Zumba class in San Martín square.
7/30 at 5:00 p.m.: performance of the play “Hansel and Gretel” at the Hermanos Ábalos Stage; at 18, in the same place, last “Patio santiagueño” of the holidays.
Sculptures and murals, in Güemes Park.
Miniguide
How to get. From the city of Buenos Aires to Las Termas de Río Hondo there are 1,192 kilometers by route 9 (Panamericana branch Campana).
Aerolíneas arrives non-stop from Buenos Aires to Las Termas (1 h. 45′); round trip with taxes, from $57,647. Similar rate and flight time to Santiago del Estero capital (65 km from Río Hondo); from Ezeiza to San Miguel de Tucumán (2 hours), 90 km from Las Termas, from $67,781.
Tu Remís rental car for 4 passengers from the Las Termas de Río Hondo airport to downtown, $2,500; from the capital Santiago del Estero airport, $10,000; from the Tucumán airport, $12,000 (03858-421-133).
Semi-bed bus from Retiro to Río Hondo (3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.), $14,060 to $14,900; sleeping car, between $15,850 and $17,200. The companies VOSA, Balut, Expreso Del Oeste, Flechabus, Vía Bariloche, VíaTAC and General Urquiza arrive.
Resort and thermal hotel Los Pinos, in Las Termas de Río Hondo.
Where to stay 7 nights “all inclusive”, with indoor and outdoor thermal pool, gym, spa, wi-fi, TV, parking, cinema and recreational and sports activities at the Los Pinos resort and hotel, $498,000 per person (double basis) in the Colonial sector, $622,500 in the American sector and $809,250 in suite (4326-5257 / 03858-421-043 / 0223-156014425 / 0800-3338736 / 0223-421-0989 / reservas@los pinos.com.ar / lospinoshotel.com.ar
Double Junior Suite with breakfast, dinner, thermal pools, TV, safe, minibar and wi-fi at the Alto Verde apart hotel and suites, $53,100; apart for 2, $57,100; for 4, $87,400 (03858- 423-400 / 03858- 15489968 / [email protected] / www.apartaltoverde.com.ar)
Where to find out (03858) 421-721/768 / www.termasderiohondo.gob.ar / Facebook: Municipality of Las Termas de Río Hondo.
Villa Río Hondo, 20 kilometers from Las Termas.
