Argentina – Patagonia

Buenos Aires

Arrival in Buenos Aires George chavez airport, the transfer pick you up, at the airport and bring you to your first hotel in centre Buenos Aires. To do this, we need your flight number and hour of arrival in advance!

A City to enjoy from different views

Schedule: Daily  AM / PM This tour gives you the emotion of a multiple Buenos Aires. We will see the symbol of our city: the obelisk. We will visit different squares such as Plaza de Mayo, Plaza San Martín, Plaza Congreso. Avenues like Corrientes, Mayo, 9 de Julio, among others. Historical neighborhoods: La Boca, San Telmo, Montserrat. Elegant neighborhoods such as Palermo and Recoleta, and the most modern: Puerto Madero. Parks such as Lezama and Tres de Febrero. We will also visit financial and commercial areas and a Football Stadium.

Included

• 1 x Private Transfer International Airport EZE – City Center Hotel Based on 2 pax
• 2 x HD Panoramic city tour , Regular
• 1 x Standard Room, including breakfast, DBL

Ushuaia

This morning after breakfast, the transfer brings you to the airport for a flight to Ushuaia, this takes around 3,5 h. We fly over the street of Magellan’s, and we touch the original field of Yahgan- Indians, the mysterious “fire land”. The name fire land has been considered by the Spaniards , they saw Ushuaia from their boats  with a constant red smoke for sunset.

Also the Beagle-canal is very famous .The mountain tops around the city become almost the whole year cover with snow and ice. Ushuaia is the most Southern city in the world, after a military base. At the port are frequently large vessels, cruising ships for Antarctica and sailboats of world travellers. Tourism in the last years strongly increases and it seems that it’s the most important source of income to become.

The Argentinean Navy is also present, particularly to protect the disputed and claimed part of Antarctica. You spend the night in one of picturesque hotels. If there’s time left, you can visit as an excursion the glacier with stunning views over the city!

Included

• 1 x Private Transfer City Center Hotel – National Airport AEP , Based on 2 pax
• 1 x Standard Room, including breakfast, DBL.

Ushuaia

The national park Fin del mundo ,have splendid excursion possibilities.We have 2 full days to discover the beauty of this part of the world. Tierra del Fuego have a lot to offer, here several walks are possible. The park is situated a half hour drives of the city and exists from a mount landscape with grass countries, confesses, lakes, fjords and splendid dense bunches of coihue. Undoubtedly you see the Cauquén, a goose type who is not shy and regularly visit this area.

The walks are not heavy and pass through concerning mount slopes, bunch and along the masonry bank of the Lapataia bay, you can see Chile.Included in this tour is the pleasant excursion walking/canoe/ tour in this pure nature! You can take also an excursion on the Beagle canal, where the Piporiver ends.

A boat brings you near Isla the pharaoh (the most Southern lighthouse), There are sea lions and cormorants or you take the boat which brings you to the penguin colony, or you go to the glacier with the cable car who brings you above the city, as from here you have a splendid view over the bay of Ushuaia or you visit  “fin del Mundo” museum ,where they stamp in your passport . In the evening you can have a meal with “Centolla” or traditional Asados”, Centollas are the largest crab in the world which is caught in the Ushuaia bay .This bay colours in the evening sometimes totally red.

Included

• 1 x Standard room, including breakfast, DBL.
• 2 x Transfer Pier Ushuaia – HTL Ushuaia roundtrip , Private transfer.
• 2 x HD Beagle Channel (Isla Lobos) , Regular excursion.

Calafate

Today we take a flight to Calafate. In Calafate a transfer brings you to your hotel in Calafate. In Calafate, which have the environment of a ski resort village, we enjoy our nice hotel in 2 person rooms with bathroom. If you want you still can visit the Laguna which lies walking distance from your hotel or you still can go on (excursion) horse ride.

Note It,s possible, in some cases, depending on the flight schedules of Aerolineas Argentina ,that the flight don’t go to Calafate but to Rio Gallegos. In this case we have to take a bus for 4 ½ h to Calafate and stay 1 night in Calafate before going to Chalten.

Included

• 1 x Standard Room, including breakfast, DBL
• 2 x Transfer Airport FTE- Hotel Regular

Chalten

Today we take the bus for  3 ½ h to Chalten,(depending hour of arrival in Calafate ). Chalten is situated in the national park los Glaciares. This is the Southern point of the Ice cap, to the foot of the Andes-mountains. It’s the starting base for exploring the Fitzroy mountains .Here is the Cerro Torre (3100 m.) and Cerro Fitzroy (3405 m) who dominate the horizon.

From Chalten starts the splendid trekking. A rising path by half forests area brings you to Laguna Torre, from where you have a splendid view to the almost vertical boasted granite rock points, covered with snow .This walk lasts approximately five hours. The torres are similar with the torres in Torres del Paine on the Chilean side, to you to decide which is the most beautiful! Chaltén have many different walks. To the Laguna the lose tres for example, where you stand on the foot of Cerro Fitz Roy with an overwhelming overview, very impressive! This walk is approximately 25 kilometres. In Chalten we stay in a hostel for 1 Night.

Included

• 2 x Public bus El Calafate – El Chaltén Round trip
• 1 x Standard room, including breakfast, DBL / 1 nights Chalten 1 night

Chalten + Calafate

Everyone wake up early for an active day. You chooses a walk to your level, another highlight in this tour! If you don’t like to walk, you can relax in Chalten or go on a horse ride as excursion.

In the afternoon you take the bus for 4 h to Calafate. On the road we certainly see groups of nandu’s, south American ostriches, and other animals. Hostal /hotel in Calafate

Included

• 2 x Public bus El Calafate – El Chaltén Round trip
• 1 x Standard room, including breakfast, DBL /1 night Calafate

Calafate + Perito moreno + Upsala glacier

Calafate is the base for a visit to the giant Perito Moreno-glacier, which leads to an altitude of 60 a 70 m.and concerning a length of several kilometres in the immense Lago Argentino. The approximately fifty glaciers in the park forms the largest compact ice mass on the earth. This day excursion is included in this tour . Another highlight during this travel. The glacier, one of largest in the world, lies on approximately eighty kilometres of Calafate. The Perito Moreno glacier ensure spectacular moments if there giant scraps demolish ice, which floats into the blue glacier lake .The blue coloured ice, sighs and cracks already millions years under the billion tons of weight, he moves itself approximately six meters per day an unique experience !

You can approach also the glacier closer with a boat excursion. Also possible ( Optional excursion) a ice trek on the Perito Moreno is for a lot of us truth excitement ! With some pins under the shoes you go up the glacier. Accompanied by a glacier guide. 1 ½ h you climb over the working ice, surrounded with nothing ells than ice with strange forms. Superb blue pools of melt water are varied with walls of ice and snow. You have splendid view concerning these enormous ice mass and finish at a small bar, where they give whisky on the rocks ,so you can taste this world wonder also !You don’t need any experience or condition. You can make in this excursion certainly the most fantastic photographs!

The other day you make the amazing excursion a cruise to the Upsala glacier in the Onelli bay included in this tour. This is real worth ! An amazing journey ! During this excursion you see glaciers with ice walls of 60-80 m altitude! Hostal /hotel Calafate.

Included

• 1 x Standard Room, including breakfast, DB
• 2 x FD excursion to Perito Moreno Glacier
• 2 x FD excursion to Upsala glacier

Buenos Aires

From Calafate you take the flight to Buenos Aires where you can stay 1 more night or connect with your international flight home.

(Also possible to extend to the warm amazing waterfalls of iguazu)

Included

• 1X transfer in Calafate
• 1X transfer in Buenos Aires to the international airport