About 2,600 meters from the entrance to the Bosque Vivero de Miramarleaving towards Mar del Sur, there is the descent to a nuevo and very special beach hostel: it is about Booa longing for many years of the enormous orthodox jewish community who has chosen this Buenos Aires city to spend their summer vacations for about 130 years.
This is a private initiative that had the support of local authorities to offer the large number of members who come to the Miramar coast a place that It is not intended to be exclusivebut to address the need for services and customs related to their identity.
In Israelthe beaches offer sections separated by genrewhich makes it easier to comply with modesty standards or tzniutas they are called by the Orthodox community. They also consider facilities kosherwhere you can prepare meals in accordance with Jewish food laws.
Relatively new, these facilities They are not common outside that country. That’s why Miramar is a pioneer in adding a parador designed according to the needs of the Argentine community – our country has the seventh largest Jewish population in the world-, as a tourist proposal that considers uses and customs of the large number of communities that coexist in the city.
Cultural modesty and respect for norms
Matías Janices, who was in charge of planning the new space, is excited about a venture that adds to his initiative that began a decade ago. “10 years ago we had a self-service and, through contacts with people in the community, we incorporate kosher productswith great success, and four years ago we opened exclusively with these products,” he says.
And he adds that (Miramar) “is a city adopted by the community for its year-round tourism; It is a kind of ‘second headquarters’ that it has in Argentina. We saw their needs and a few years ago we began to think about a specially dedicated inn, which was an old aspiration for everyone.”
The place seeks to respect the customs of the community.The project began to take shape in February 2024, with the support of the Municipality and the Deliberative Council, with the central idea of creating an exclusive hostel for the people of the community, which fundamentally seeks to have cultural trip y respect for their rules.
“It is not that anyone who does not belong to the community cannot enter, but the idea is that everyone who enters respects the uses and customs. The link is that we have trust through food, since we supply several hotels with kosher food, there are some restaurants that provide the service for which we are suppliers, and that is how this idea was born,” says the businessman.
Vaiam, which means “Parador al Mar”, offers this year a service of security beach, parking lot and a food truck that sells suitable products such as snacks, smoothies and unprocessed food in a grocery store style. It also has a wifi zone.
Parador Vaiam, Miramar.“From this experience, we are going to learn the needs together and see how the project evolves,” says Janices.
How to get there. Along a road that starts from Route 11 one kilometer south of the Energy Forest, between the Municipal Nursery and Mar del Sur.