National Reserve

Today I visited the National Reserve founded by Aaron Anchorena.

Aaron travelled many places all over the world and arrived in Colonia by a hot air ballon! He immediately liked the land (at which the National Reserve is now based) and he bought the land and started to build on it. He built houses, brought deers and planted trees as well as bringing other cultural influences from the places that he had travelled.

When he died he left a part of the land to the Uruguyan government so that the people of Uruguay could visit his beautiful place. It is named the Anchorena Parque. The Parque is now inhabited by soldiers who take care of the land. There are also tours for people who want to visit and learn and that is what myself, Carmen and Andrea and her family did today.

When Aaron died he left the rest of his land to his relatives. To this day the land is still owned by Anchorenas family.