Argentina Vacations - North to South
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DAY BY DAY Itinerary
Day 1 - Arrival in Iguazu Falls
Welcome at Iguazu Airport, assistance, and private transportation to your hotel.
After checking you will be taken on a private tour to the Brazil side of the falls with its magnificent views of this unique, breathtaking landscape.
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Day 2 – Iguazu Falls – Argentina and Gran Aventura
Today, right after breakfast, your guide will pick you up at your hotel to start an incredible experience and a really wet adventure.
Arrival to the Visitors Center and the Iguazu National Park. This center receives the visitor with an array of basic services like several snack bars, a restaurant, souvenir shops, toilets, medical attention and an interpretive building with giant panels showing the importance and the biodiversity of the subtropical humid forest.
Your adventure at the Argentine side of the Falls will take you through the lower circuit catwalks, with a duration of one hour and the upper circuit with an approximate duration of 50 minutes.
The access to San Martin Island will be done through the catwalks of the lower circuit. This visit will last 1 ½ hour.
Now you will start your train ride towards the Devil's Throat to enjoy a one kilometer trek Sendero Verde (Green Trail) that connects the Visitors Center to the Cataratas Station and to the Upper Circuit. Once you are at the Devil's Throat Station you will have to walk for 1.100 meters on a flat catwalk built over the Upper Iguassu River. This catwalk crosses several islands where there are snack bars to cater to visitors. Once you get to the end of the catwalks, you will be surprised by a strategic lookout point resting on the side of the gorgeous Devil's Throat.
Later you will continue with the most exiting ride inside the National Park. It consists of a fantastic trip through the jungle by an open wagon, a walking tour of about 1 kilometer and after that a fabulous boat ride that takes you up to the falls (underneath part). During this tour you will appreciate the flora and the wild flowers like orchids and bromeliads and you will be facing the power of the falls right in front of you.
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Day 3 – Flight from Iguazu to Peninsula Valdes
Your guide will pick you up at your hotel and will take you to the airport for your flight to Peninsula Valdes.
Arrival, assistance and private transportation from airport to hotel.
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Day 4 – Peninsula and San Lorenzo Penguin Colony
Early morning, our guide will pick you up at your hotel and will start an incredible adventure in Peninsula Valdes.
One of the most amazing experiences the fabulous wildlife reserve of Peninsula Valdes has to offer is the whale watching tour. Small boats take you amongst one of the largest mammals of our planet - the Southern Right Whale. This magnificent animal heads over to the warm waters of the city of whales, Puerto Madryn in Patagonia Argentina, to breed.
Southern right whales can be found in Golfo Nuevo and Golfo San Jose, protected bodies of water located between the peninsula and the Patagonian mainland of Argentina. These baleen whales come here between June and December, for mating and giving birth, because the water in the gulf is quieter and warmer than in the open sea.
After this unique part of your full day tour, you will visit one of the finest wildlife reserves in South America.
At the entrance to the reserve, the Visitors' Center has a small exhibit of local fauna and flora. Your adventure continues to Estancia San Lorenzo, located on the extreme north eastern part of Peninsula Valdes to see the famous penguin colony. You will have ample time to see the colony of over 2,000 Magellan penguins including many species of marine birds and flora and fauna from a strategically located bench overlooking the beach. Later during the day you will enjoy a traditional Patagonian barbeque.
Punta Norte is your final destination. From a cliff viewpoint you'll see an elephant seal and sea lion colony in their natural habitat.
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Day 5 – Day at leisure in Peninsula Valdes
Enjoy the area by yourself.
Many activities are always available for you.
If you have something in mind, we can always help you including it in your itinerary.
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Day 6 – From Peninsula Valdes to Ushuaia
Early wake up call and your guide will pick you up at your hotel to take you to the airport for your next flight to Ushuaia in the south corner of Argentina.
Arrival in Ushuaia, assistance and private transportation from airport to hotel.
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Day 7 – End of the world train and Tierra del Fuego
You will depart from your hotel towards the End of the World train station located at approximately 8 kilometers from the city. The train used the original road of what used to be the train of the prisoners.
On the way to the Tierra del Fuego National Park you will see a forest full of diverse colors during every seasons of the year and you will observe as well the reconstruction of an Indian camp and a natural waterfall at the La Macarena Station. The Train of the End of the World goes 4.5 kilometers inside the National Park Tierra del Fuego that was created in 1969 as a project to protect the sub Antarctic forests of the regions as well as the Beagle Channel.
This park, unlike other Andean-Patagonian forests, possesses forests close to the sea coast. It is crossed by parallel mountain ranges in a north west to south east direction dividing the park in valleys of difficult access.
Besides of being representative of the local flora and fauna, the national park keeps archaeological remains of the Yamana natives.
Another attraction inside the park is located at the of Route 3 and Pan-American Road, in the famous and beautiful Lapataia Bay.
There are different activities you will be able to practice at the Tierra del Fuego National Park like, trekking, camping, sport fishing, bird watching and yachting with no engine boats, during winter it is an ideal place for cross country skiing.
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Day 8 – Day at leisure in Ushuaia
Enjoy the area by yourself.
Many activities are always available for you.
If you have something in mind, we can always help you including it in your itinerary.
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Day 9 – Flight from Ushuaia to El Calafate
Eacly breakfast, check out and private transportation to the airport for your next flight to El Calafate.
At your arrival to El Calafate, a private car will be waiting for you ready to take you to your hotel
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Day 10 – Trekking the Perito Moreno Glacier
Early wake up and your guide will pick you up to start your tour to The Glacier Perito Moreno. It is a river with solid waters in constant movement with an specific speed. The process of formation of the glacier occurred due to the accumulations of frequent snowing during centuries. The fundamental conditions for the glacier formation are huge snows and a constant temperature through the year that allows the ice consistence.
This journey starts in Bajo de Las Sombras Bay, where you will embark to sail across Lake Rico. Then specialized guides will organize groups to make a long walk on the edge of the lake to the glacier, for 20 minutes.
After reaching the edge of the ice, day-trippers have to wear special shoes with nails that allow the visitors to walk over ice. This trip takes more or less 1 hour and 50 minutes. Here, everybody can appreciate the shapes of ice such as cracks, drains and small lakes.
Our expert guides will provide all kind of explanations about flora, fauna and glaciers of the region, and also about the particular phenomenon, the break of the Glacier.
Later on you will have time to enjoy an excellent picnic lunch on the Glacier.
Finally we go back to the Port and take a bus to the glaciers view point, and its footbridges, we can stay there for an hour. Then we return to El Calafate and we will dropp you off at your hotel.
Trekking boots or tennis shoes, gloves and sunglasses are recommended.
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Day 11 – Argentino Lake and Upsala Explorer Navigation
Pick up at your hotel and you will go to Punta Bandera to visit Argentino Lake. First we'll tour at the northern part of the lake where we'll see the icebergs floating adrift and then to the Upsala Glacier. Upsala Glacier forms a 50 km. long, 10 km. wide and several hundred meters thick ice stripe. In its central part you will observe a dark sector, the central moraine, where rocks, sand and clay transported by minor glaciers tributaries of the Upsala are deposited.
Then we'll go back to Onelli Bay where we'll go ashore. Through a forested path we'll reach one of the most beautiful panoramic points of the tour , the confluence of the Glaciers Onelli, Agassiz and Bolado.
When you land there, some Mercedes Benz unimogs will be waiting for you and in these trucks you will travel around the region, cross the swamp to the panoramic point from where you can observe Cristina Bay, Lake Tanhauser de Oeste and all the area influenced by the Estancia. Then you will go to the restaurant in the old "quincho" of the Estancia and enjoy lunch.
On your way back to the hotel you will be able to see the Boca del Diablo.
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Day 12 – Flight from Calafate to Buenos Aires
Our guide will pick you up at your hotel, 1 hour and a half before your flight to Buenos Aires.
Reception and private transfer from airport to your hotel.
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Day 13 – Privately guided Buenos Aires City Tour
Our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel and you will start to discover the beauty of Buenos Aires visiting it’s Civic Center, the impressive National Congress Building and the May Square (Plaza de Mayo), surrounded by the Government House (Casa Rosada), the Metropolitan Cathedral and the City Hall from colonial days. You will visit as well the famous Colon Theater, one of the world’s best-known opera houses and the cultural price of the Porteños. Next you will tour the traditional San Telmo with its Flea Market. A stop at La Boca, home of the first Italian immigrants where you will observe the picturesque and colorful architecture.
Finally you will go to La Recoleta, the city’s most exclusive district full of elegant boutiques, gourmet restaurants and side walk cafes.
As port of your tour you will enjoy a delicious lunch in Puerto Madero.
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Day 14 - Tango Show and dinner in Buenos Aires
Tango in Argentina is definitely Folk Music. This part of the Argentinean culture can be witnessed in the paved streets of San Telmo or in the famous "Tanguerias" where besides of getting drunk with the music and dance, you can taste the best meats in Argentine Cuisine.
Our guide will pick you up at your hotel to take you to Tango Porteño Tango Show and enjoy a delicious dinner along with an incredible tango display.
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Day 15 – Day at leisure in Buenos Aires
Enjoy the city by yourself.
Many activities are always available for you.
If you have something in mind, we can always help you including it in your itinerary.
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Day 16 – From Buenos Aires back home
In the morning enjoy the city by yourself.
Check out and at appropriate time your driver will pick you up at hotel to take you to airport for your flight back home.
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