Location:  421 km. south Buenos Aires on national route 11. By bus or car from Buenos Aires (route 2 and 11) or by plane to Mar del Plata and then 100 km north.

Weather:  Humid and middle temperature.  Rain in winter and dryer on spring.  Hot on summer but a little bit chilly during night time.  Middle temperature during summer: 23º.  Middle temperature during winter: 13º

Activities:  Beach and water sports (windsurf, surf, water bikes, etc).  Sand sports, 4x4, motorbikes, etc.   Horse riding, biking, trekking, etc.  Also fishing from the shore or on boats.

Cabins:  Lots of guest houses of all styles (from pure wood to stone and bricks) were built in the forest to be rented by tourists, with all normal hotel services, including breakfast and kitchens for own cooking.

Phone:  phone calls in Mar de Las Pampas is for free. No cellular signal available inside the forest, but there is Internet.  Dialing to Mar de Las Pampas nationally is: 02255 + phone, and internationally: 542255 + phone. 

The first thing you’ll notice once you are here is the silence; suddenly it happens you’ve just arrived to a place without time with houses hidden behind the trees.

The forest seems quiet (only moves by the wind over the trees), and the sound of the ocean with the waves breaking loudly comes thru the trees like a whisper to your ears.  It is magic time, only breaks by a car or a person time to time.

You just came to the place where elves, gnomes and people from the saga of "The Lord of the Ring" should live.  It is the place to stay and relax.

But this silence is heavy broken in summer time (January and February) and winter holidays (last two weeks of July) when people from all around the country (mostly from Buenos Aires city) come to take their vacation.  This is the happy hour of Mar de Las Pampas.  Thousands of people pack the place and everything comes alive.

Even though, the place inserts over everybody its own energy and begins to slow down people’s mind.  It is like a walking meditation where everybody leaves their cars behind and joins themselves to the sand streets to discover the magical forest.

Here is what you get.  No cellular phone, no road streets (only sand ones), houses, hostels and restaurants, charming shops inside the forest  and kindly people, with a huge smile waiting to talk to you, to serve you and to share their history and life.

About this last one item I have found many stories from people who left their grown up sons and daughters in Buenos Aires and came here to spend the last years of their lives....., people who had rebuilt their lives like "Fenix birds" starting again and again after the Argentinean economic crash down in 2001......, people who were just looking for a place where to live "peacefully" far from the big cities, so they started building guest houses for tourists....., I also found people with nice thoughts like "I want to make Mar de Las Pampas a peaceful place as the World should be"...  so you will not find violence, insecurity, thieves and so on, even though the police is everywhere.

So, where to start?  I was invited by Mercedes, the owner of Huanquelen cabins to discover the area.

I accepted the invitation and went all the way down to relax and enjoy.

Just wonderful!

The cabins were little houses inserted into the forest, with a beautiful garden designed by "Beto", a local garden engineer who had had the ability to join the local forest with colorful flowers.   Inside the cabins, wooden furniture, a fire place, the kitchen, good showers and plenty windows to feel myself relaxed surrounded by pine trees and eucalyptus.

To further info or booking accomodation contact Mrs. Mercedes.  Click here

During the night, the lights turned on and the forest turned off and suddenly the silence becomes "too loud" and the feeling of "completeness" surrounded by myself.

The place is packed with flowers, trees and plants.

Nice place to sit down, read a book, take a drink or ask for lunch.

Everything done in the best wood and carefull details to give you a peaceful time.

Many stories had come to my ears and the sweetness of his good manners are a guarantee of good hospitality.  So do not hesitate to book here and enjoy this comfortable cabins.

Booking and further info contact Mrs. Cristina

Silvestris Apart

Another exclusive and fine resort you may find in Mar de las Pampas are Silvestris Apartments.

Just a few meters from the beach is one of the most beautiful buildings you can see there.

These include:

Complete breakfast and afternoon tea

Room services

Beach services

White clothes

Kids care

Sand boards for free, included in booking fee, for fun sand surfing

Kids area

Jacuzzi on the outside with massage beds.

More info or booking information contact Silvestris apartments.  Click here

Lemu cabins

They are inserted right in the middle of Mar de las Pampas forest and placed a couple of blocks ahead from "downtown" in one of the most quiet environments of the city.

To see cabins details visit the site of "Lemu cabins"

As you can see on the pictures, wooden details and furniture are everywhere.

A big round wooden table with 6 wooden chairs complete the dinning room.

Big windows integrated the bathroom to the pine forest around.

Beside this parrilla you can have a complete wood dinning table to take lunch on the outdoors, feeling the peaceful pine trees forest.

For booking and more info contact us.

In "Careyes" everything is thought in an spiritual way of thinking.

"Careyes" is a very special place.  Here you can find comfort and beauty as in other places you may have been, but "something else is here".  Eventhough, all Mar de las Pampas is a very mystic place, Careyes leads the subject with the care on the building itself and gardening.

There is no rush to have breakfast, with a call you receive it in your room at anytime.

Booking info contact Danila

You can find "vareinikes" (a tasty polish dish of potatoes and onions), classic "picadas Argentines"(cheese, pepperoni, ham,vegetables in oil and grapes goes good with beer) and "pankas" (pizza sandwiches with everything inside).  One important point is that I am vegetarian and I found no problem in choosing dishes from the menu.  Very good.

Light House is seen from the ocean, far away.  It is used by fishermen and sailmen who sail from Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata and back.

Renting a 4x4 in Mar de las Pampas is not so easy unless its summer time (January and February) and because I've been at the beginning of September (still winter and was very windy and chilly) I was able to go thanks to a friend who invited me to go (lucky me).

Behind that desert there are the trees, not seen from the shore.

Click here to see a 360 view of Light House Querandi