Patagonia Argentina Vacations Package
Argentina Packages
DAY BY DAY Itinerary
Day 1 - Arrival in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Welcome at Ezeiza airport, assistance with your baggage and private transportation to your hotel.
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Day 2 – 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 3 - 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 4 – Flight from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia
Breakfast, check out and private transportation to the airport for your next flight to Ushuaia.
At your arrival to Ushuaia, a private car will be waiting for you ready to take you to your hotel
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Day 5 – 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 6 – Beagle Channel Navigation
You will be picked up at your hotel and taken to the tourist port where you will board and start your
sailing along the Ushuaia Bay and the Beagle Channel, where you will see the southernmost city of the world, surrounded by an exclusive landscape, the combination of mountains, forest and the sea.
You will observe the Montes Olivia and Cinco Hermanos (Olivia and Five Brothers), Estancias Fique and Tunel (Tunnel and Fique Ranch).
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Continuing with your trip, you will arrive at the Faro Les Eclaireurs (Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse). There, you will see a small colony of Rocky or Magellanic Cormorants. Sailing back, you will get closer to the Isla de los Lobos (Sea Lion's Island) just to enjoy these curious and really nice marine mammals and the Isla Despard (Despard Island), the natural habitat of the Imperial Cormorants.
During the trip, you will enjoy big diversity of marine birds, such as the southern giant Petrels, black-bowed albatross, Southern American terns, gulls, and little seagulls. Sailing between the Bridges Archipelago and though the Paso Chico, we will go back to the City Ushuaia. Once back and getting closer to the Ushuaia Bay, admire the impressive views offered by the Ushuaia City.
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Day 7 – Flight from Ushuaia to El Calafete
Early departure from your hotel to the airport in Ushuaia for your next flight to El Calafate.
Arrival and private transportation to your hotel.
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Day 8 – 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 9 – 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 10 – Flight from Calafate to Bariloche
Our guide will pick you up at your hotel, 1 hour and a half before your flight to Bariloche.
Reception and private transfer from Bariloche's airport to your hotel.
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Day 11 - Bariloche full day tour
This 65 kilometers circuit will allow you to taste some of the most beautiful sceneries in Argentina. The small circuit begins at the lake shore Avenue Ezequiel Bustillo, traveling mainly along the Coast of Nahuel Huapi Lake.
Stops are made at Bonita Beach, Campanario Hill, Llao Llao Peninsula and the beautiful Lopez Bay, with its views of Catedral, Lopez and Otto Mountains ending this part of your tour at the attractive point of Puerto Pañuelo, from where you will sail for 30 minutes to Puerto Anchorena in Victoria Island. There you will stroll throughout the island visiting the ex-nursery of conifers, where it is possible to ascend the summit of Cerro Bella Vista of 900mts height by lifts.
You embark and reach Puerto Quetrihué where you will visit Bosque de Arrayanes which is famous worldwide, and the only one in the world that has centenary specimens. It has been declared intangible area and natural worldwide monument. The bark of this tree is of a cinnamon color, smooth and very cold, it has white leaves and a purple fruit of delicious taste.
It is said that Walt Disney`s film Bambi was inspired by this woods landscape.
Later you will return to Puerto Pañuelo and to Bariloche.
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Day 12 - Bariloche day at leisure
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 13 - Bariloche day at leisure
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 14 – Bariloche to Buenos Aires and back home
Private transfer from your hotel to the airport in Bariloche for your flight back to Buenos Aires and immediate connection back home.
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