Personally, I consider myself a person who prefers the mountains a thousand times over the beach. Going to visit mountainous places is magical: no place is the same as the other, there are a variety of shapes and colors, depending on the vegetation of the place, each landscape changes color throughout the year ... Wonderful simplicity. But this does not prevent you from enjoying a good day at the beach, listening to the sea and eating food with sand . Something that was completely outside of our initial plan within the trip to Sierra de la Ventana was to finish on the beach, but that's how it was ❤️.
With this trip we literally finished crossing the entire province of Buenos Aires from end to end. Whenever I am traveling I like to check the map to see my location and at that time I did not believe that I was so far from home but still being in my own province.Screenshot from Google maps 
The decision to go to the beach was unanimous. It was already Monday, the third day of our car trip. By then we had already toured several interesting places but we still wanted to see more. We left early from Sierra de La Ventana and after two hours we reached the beach of Monte Hermoso. The day was gray and somewhat cold at the time, it was not very pleasant to tell the truth.
We take the opportunity to take a short walk along the shore. There weren't many people then, it was around 1 PM and with the day like this, who would want to be in that place apart from us tourists who were more than 500 km from home .
Of course after a while we started to get very hungry. We went for a walk around the center of Monte Hermoso but to our surprise all the businesses were closed. Perhaps as the season was low, nobody wanted to open their business due to the lack of people. The good thing was that when we returned to the beach after a long time looking for something to eat, the sun had come out ❤️.
The only thing we found open was a local empanadas so that's what we had for lunch . I'm not complaining, they were delicious despite the sand that flew over them .
This Monte Hermoso beach is a great tourist destination in the summer. I didn't know her, but when I came here she reminded me a lot of Mar del Plata, the most important coastal city in Buenos Aires. It has a lot of accommodation facing the sea and the beach is really wide, for sure in hot weather this place is extremely crowded.
On the other hand, I have proposed to myself that I would get my feet wet in any place I visit that has a body of water (my immune system does not like this). Let's review, it was August, it was cold, the sun was shining but barely warmed up ... all that resulted in frozen water that made my bones ache but at least I had the experience of getting into the sea in Monte Hermoso (even significantly ) .
Whenever we go to the beach with my aunt Olga (the one with the hat) we take a picture with the name of the place written in the sand. Surely we must have many photos like these, it is already a classic for us. This time, my aunt Alicia has joined the postcard ❤️.
And once again, I am happy to have arrived with my friend Sofía in a new place ❤️ (I would not have been there if we had traveled alone ).
The funny thing is that before going to Sierra I had several trips in mind and one of them was to go to the beach. Thanks to the twists and turns of life (and my cousin Gastón, the driver) we ended up visiting the mountain and the beach in the same walk. I was really happy in those days, I was receiving much more than I had imagined and that is something that I will always be grateful for ❤️.
