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Essential Argentina

itinerary

Day 1: Buenos Aires

Arrival. Reception and assistance at Ezeiza International Airport. Transfer in Private service.

Day 2: Buenos Aires

Breakfast. City Tour. Enjoy the city on a tour of its main attractions. This tour gives you the emotion of a multiple Buenos Aires with its landmark: The Obelisk. We´ll visit places such as Plaza de Mayo, San Martin, Alvear and avenues like Corrientes, De Mayo, 9 de Julio, among others. Historical neighborhoods: La Boca, San Telmo, fancy as Palermo and Recoleta, modern like Puerto Madero; Parks like Lezama and Tres de Febrero, business and shopping areas. Football Stadiums and many more. Hotel. Free time

Day 3: Buenos Aires / Ushuaia

Breakfast. Transfer to J. Newbery National Airport for domestic flight in Private service. Arrival. Reception and assistance by our staff at the airport. Transfer in Regular service to the hotel.

Day 4: Ushuaia

Breakfast. Morning departure from the hotel to visit Tierra del Fuego National Park (National Park fee included) in regular service. Created in 1960 with a surface of 63.000 acres, this place offers visitors a complex landscape framed in the patagonic forest. Geographically formed by mountain chains and glacier valleys. The vast lenga forests cover part of the mountains from the sea level up to 600 mts high. We can also find "guindo" or "coihue of Magallanes" trees in humid areas of the Pipo Valley. Special fauna is found here: Zorro Colorado fueguino (Red Fox), guanaco and huillin (carnivorous mammal from the otter family). In the afternoon, we´ll enjoy the “Isla de Lobos y Pájaros” (Sea Wolves and Birds Island) Have you ever thought of taking pictures of an over 300 kilos Sea Lion surrounded by its harem at about 3 metres of distance and posing specially to look more elegant? This is only one of some of the unusual pictures we can take during the trip. In very comfortable modern ships, we sail around the Archipelago, Bridges Islands and Les Eclaireurs lighthouse, rocky outcrops in the middle of Beagle Channel that go together with the mountain chains that close this magnificent interoceanic passage. We´ll sail opposite Túnel Farm, the southest farm in the World.

Day 5: Ushuaia / El Calafate

Breakfast. Transfer to Ushuaia Airport for domestic flight in regular service. Arrival. Reception and assistance by our staff at the airport. Transfer in regular service to the hotel. Check in.

Day 6: El Calafate

Breakfast. Departure from the hotel to enjoy the tour to the Perito Moreno Glacier and the “Safari Nautico” in regular service. Los Glaciares National Park has been declared to be Mankind Heritage by the UNESCO (National Park fee included). These glaciers, about 47 of them, show a work of 10 thousand years ago. The most famous is Perito Moreno Glacier, located in the extreme south - west of Lago Argentino, 80km/50miles away from Calafate. It was named after the great argentine explorer from the 19th Century and it is one of the few advancing glacier, that is why, it has become a mayor amazing landscape in South America. Every certain time, from its front walls of 60mts/196ft high fall down giant blocks of ice, as big as buildings, into the waters of Brazo Rico or Canal de los Tempanos (Icebergs Canal) and finally gets to the main part of the lake. However, there´s more! The advancing of the glacier does it approach to Peninsula Magallanes, on the opposite side of the lake, where there are balconies to be able to enjoy it. The cycle takes between 4 to 6 years and divides the lake into two parts.

Day 7: El Calafate

Breakfast. Free day at leisure. We recommend you the Optional Ice River Express Tour (Upsala & Onelli navigation) Early morning departure from Puerto Bandera. Sailing first across the south and north arms known as Garganta de Diablo. We´ll see spectacular icebergs of different sizes and shapes, floating and wandering around up to Upsala Glacier (50km wide /10km long with a surface approximately of 590 km2 /228 Sq miles) belonging to one of the most extensive in America.

Day 8: El Calafate / Iguazú

Breakfast. Transfer to El Calafate Airport for domestic flight in regular service. Arrival. Reception and assistance by our staff at the airport. Transfer in Regular service to the hotel. Check in.

Day 9: Iguazú

Breakfast. Departure to visit the Argentinean Side of the Falls (National Park fee included). After taking the Ecological train, we will visit the upper and lower walkways of the Argentinean side, approaching both water falls you can almost touch. Such magnitude of wild nature gets its highest expression in "The Devil's Throat", where the tumultuous waters are countless rainbow. We recommend the Optional tour "The Great Adventure", where passengers of the boat have a baptism under one of his waterfalls.

Day 10: Iguazú / Buenos Aires

Breakfast. Morning tour to Brazilian Side of the Falls (National Park fee included). We have the opportunity to be in contact with nature while we reach one of the most outstanding views in the park: La garganta del diablo (Devils Throat). In the afternoon and at the scheduled time, transfer Out in regular service to the airport for the flight to Buenos Aires. Arrival, assistance and reception at the airport. Transfer In to hotel in Private service.

Day 11: Buenos Aires

Breakfast. Transfer to Ezeiza International Airport in Private service.

Tour ends …..!!

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