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Domestic flights
I/O airport
4* hotels
American breakfast
All tours included
English speaking guide
Meals not included
1st Day in Buenos Aires
This day is free to acclimatize, relax in the hotel and walk around the city.
This excursion to the glacier starts at 9:00 a.m. from your hotel in El Calafate, giving you ample time to tour this incredible place, with various stops at panoramic points within the National Park and a visit to the gangways.
You will have approximately 5 hours to visit the gangways and marvel at the Perito Moreno Glacier in front of you. Depending on your physical conditions, you can reach the lower balconies closest to the glacier or stay on the first balconies that are easily accessible to anyone.
Full day excursion to visit El Chaltén starting from El Calafate. It includes stops and quiet walks at viewpoints, lunch in a restaurant and free time to tour the typical mountain town, always accompanied by a guide. You will visit the Viedma Glacier Viewpoint, the National Park Interpretation Center, Los Cóndores Viewpoint, the Chorrillo del Salto and the city center. It is an activity to get to know El Chaltén in a relaxed way and without any physical demands.
Torres del Paine National Park is located in the southernmost part of Chile serving as one of the 11 areas that protect the region of Patagonia, Magallanes and the Chilean part of Antarctica. Four of the protected areas are national parks with Torres del Paine encompassing an area of 700.43 square miles (1,814.1 km2).
The Paine mountain range is the heart of the park featuring the series of three spectacular granite peaks lined up in a row creating the picturesque Torres del Paine. The three summits are individually known as Torre d'Agostini, Torre Central, and Torre Monzino reaching heights of over 8,200 feet (2,500 m).
We set sail from the local tourist pier, traveling through the wide Bay of Ushuaia until reaching the *Beagle Channel through the Paso Chico. There we will navigate around the Isla de los Pájaros where we will be able to appreciate the Tierra del Fuego birdlife. We will observe: Skuas, Black-browed Albatross, Steamer Ducks, Cauquenes, Kelp Gulls and Gray Gulls. Then, we will get closer to the Isla de los Lobos where we will be able to observe sea lions of one and two hairs. Both islands belong to the Bridges Archipelago.
Arriving at the Les Eclaireurs (The Illuminators) Lighthouse, we will be able to see the colonies of Imperial Cormorants and Rock Shags while we listen to the story of the sinking of the SS Monte Cervantes in 1930. This navigation includes a descent in Puerto Karelo, belonging to the Islands Bridges, where you can visit genuine Yámanas shell pits. This guided walk lasts approximately 20 minutes and focuses us on a panoramic point where you can take very good pictures.
Finishing the journey of the Beagle Channel, lighthouse, Isla de Lobos you will be amazed by the view of the mountain range that surrounds the city of Ushuaia and its sumptuous nature that surrounds it. The route we take is full of historical value and, of course, landscape. We visit really interesting places that you should not miss the opportunity to know.
You will be able to observe two types of sea lions: One-haired lions: their name comes from the fact that they only have one layer of hair. They have a lighter coat and the males can measure 2.50 meters and weigh up to 350 kg. Two-haired lions: they have double fur of a very dark color, with a pointed muzzle. Males can reach 1.60 meters long.
Tierra del Fuego National Park is located 12 km from Ushuaia and our tour begins when the guide picks up each passenger at their lodging.
The first stop of the tour is at the End of the World Train station, there you can choose to take the train, an optional activity, and those who choose not to take the train can tour the station with the guide and then continue into the park. On board the train, a journey of approximately 1 hour, you will hear the history of the prisoners in Ushuaia and other interesting secrets of the city. If you take the train, don't worry, the guide will give all the information you missed.
Once inside the park and surrounded by forests and the marine coast of the Beagle Channel, in Ensenada Zaratiegui, we will find the southernmost Post Office in the World, so we recommend you bring your passport to stamp it. The office is open from the end of October to the end of April.
Another of the sites that we will visit is Lake Acigami / Roca, a dazzling lake of glacial origin, located on the border between Argentina and Chile, and it is important to say that at all times we will have the opportunity to observe native wildlife such as black-necked swans, cauquenes, cormorants, rays, foxes and the flora of the Fuegian forest.
The last place to visit is Bahía Lapataia, the place where national route N°3 ends, and the final leg of the longest land connection in the Americas, which allows us to go by vehicle from Ushuaia to Alaska. The Pan American route!
You will get to know two of the most emblematic neighborhoods of Buenos Aires with our San Telmo and La Boca Walking Tour.
At night, we will have the opportunity to visit the emblematic Bar "La Ventana" Located in the heart of San Telmo, this fully restored historic tenement (conventillo) is a classic of Buenos Aires culture. La Ventana is a journey through other times of the Buenos Aires of yesteryear.
It has a service of typical and international dishes and also an excellent Argentine wine cellar.
It presents a show with more than 30 artists on stage, a tango orchestra and folk music, among others.
The interiors, which preserve the purest aspects of the building, are the ideal environment for different proposals of tango and folklore.
We will explore the northern neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, among which the most ellegant and trendy.
The extension of the walkways is 1,200 meters from where you can get a spectacular panoramic view of the 275 waterfalls that make up the Iguazu Falls, of which the most important on the Brazilian side are 4: Floriano, Deodoro, Benjamin Constant and Salto Unión or Garganta of the Devil. At the end of the tour you have access to the panoramic elevator that allows you to reach the bus that will drop us off again at the access portal.
Hours: every day from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Duration of the walk: 1 hour 30 min.
Excursion through Brazilian Falls, visiting a traditional walkway with wonderful panoramic views.
Iguazú, a wide river dotted with islands, gentle and shallow, falls vertically from a lava ravine that ranges from 80 to 65 meters high, dazzling us with an arc of countless waterfalls. A natural spectacle that paralyzes our voice and opens our soul.
Every morning we take this excursion to tour the falls and see it from different angles and perspectives. Entering through the visitor center, several walks are made in the jungle to admire the giants of this green world, the jungle that gives us its aromas, its colors, its freshness, a unique contact with this biome that is increasingly scarce in the world. modern. Walks suitable for all types of visitors and with different levels of difficulty. The walkways offer wonderful visits to the falls and the opportunity to be in contact with the fauna. From colorful insects like dragonflies, butterflies and beetles; the curious coatis and monkeys; great variety of birds such as magpies, jotes and toucans; and there are days when we are surprised by the timid gaze of a corzuela, a capybara or even a puma scanning the pass from the edge of the mountain.
A ride on the narrow gauge train completes the delightful for adults and children, it is a service that acts as a link between the 3 different circuits or walkways of the National Park; lower, upper and devil's throat. The visitor is always satisfied, is the goal, with maximum joy, accompanied by the best guides who know secrets, legends and anecdotes that will make the visit to this world heritage site and one of the 7 wonders of the world more complete.
You will have time to picnic if you have brought it, taking great care to pick up trash and not feed wild animals, or enjoy an excellent lunch in the park's very well-stocked Gastronomic Plaza. You can also combine the walks with optional nautical tours or a jungle safari.
Like the beginning of the excursion early in the morning, it ends in the early hours of the afternoon, and we return to our respective hotels.
Does not include entrance to Iguazú National Park.
Daily departures: Argentine Falls 7:30 am.
We leave Argentina from the international airport at Ezeiza.
Extension trip: Optionally you can have a day trip to Colonia or Montevideo in Uruguay.
