Tantalizing Argentina

Day 1:                                  Arrive Buenos Aires

Welcome to Argentina, on arrival at Buenos Aires International Airport, please clear customs and immigrations and collect your checked baggage, further proceed to arrival hall where you will be met by local representative, English speaking driver who will assist in your transfer to hotel. Check in, freshen up and have dinner (on own)

Overnight at hotel

Meals:

Day 2:                                  Buenos Aires - City Tour and Tango Show

Take enough rest in the morning, as your city tour start only in the afternoon.

Embark on a 4 hour regular Buenos Aires historic city sightseeing excursion. Sense, feel & soak up the emotions & ambiance of South America’s most glittering capital city. Take in all the major plaza & their elegant neighborhoods of Palermo & Belgrano. You’ll see the historic civic buildings, fountains & monuments for which this city is standout: pause in Plaza 25 de Mayo at the Presidential Palace - Casa Rosada, the reverence within Buenos Aires Cathedral, the famous Cabildo & the iconic Obelisco, all the while gaining a knowledge & education through the descriptions & in-depth commentary provided by your local expert bi-lingual English speaking guide. At the conclusion of the morning’s historic sightseeing excursion you will be returned to your city hotel.

Evening proceed for Tango Show and late night back to hotel.

Overnight at hotel

Meals: Breakfast

Day 3:                                  Buenos Aires - Ushuaia

Check out from hotel and transfer to Buenos Aires airport by English speaking guide, for your flight to Ushuaia. Arrive Ushuaia and further you will be met by local representative who will assist in your transfer to hotel.

Overnight at hotel

Meals: Breakfast

Day 4:                                  Ushuaia - Lagos Off Road

After breakfast this morning, proceed for full Day tour of the Lagos Off Road excursion on seat in coach basis. Park Entrance Fee Not Included

We will pick you up as today you will embark on a fabulous excursion around the indigenous forests surrounding Lago Fagnano called “Lago`s Off Road”. In many ways this is a fun filled relaxing day, on board the Land Rover Defender & experience an unforgettable journey, mixed with a bit of adrenaline pumping serious off-road muddy tracks & the lake itself. From above the Andes, get a view of a little gem hidden in the valley, Lago Escondido (hidden Lake). Soon after the breathtaking & impressive Lake Fagnano will surely be the main attraction. At lunch time your driver/guide will cook an exquisite barbeque (asado) for you in a small `refugio` located deep in the indigenous forest. Here, as well as all kinds of delicious meats, fresh salads & a desert platter you ´ll have the chance to enjoy a glass of top quality Argentine Malbec overlooking the magnificence & quietness of Lago Fagnano. More off road 4x4 adventures on muddied tracks around a lake follow lunch & at the conclusion of the excursion, the

crew will bring you back to your hotel in Ushuaia.

Overnight at hotel

Meals: Breakfast

Day 5:                                  Ushuaia - Guided tour of Gable Island

After breakfast this morning, proceed for a guided tour of Gable Island on seat in coach basis (SIC). Park Entrance Fee Included

 This full-day excursion takes our passengers for a ride, to navigate, to walk and to make discoveries in one of the roughest and most beautiful places in the Beagle Channel.

Once we arrive to Lasiphashaj river, and wearing rubber boots, overpants and life-jackets provided by us, the group starts a canoeing adventure down the river that leads into the sea. Once canoeing on the Beagle Channel, we set course to the ranch. Along the way we may encounter wildlife: lots of different sea birds. Also, it is not unusual to find sea lions sunbathing in little islands in our way to Harberton port.

After 2 hours on the rafts and a short stop on terra firma, we leave on a motor boat towards Martillo Island, where we will have the chance to see penguins in their breeding lair. Then the motor boat take us to our main atraccion at Gable Island, where we have some snacks, good wine and a delicious meal.

After a nice cup of cofee were go for a hike to know more of this gorgeous island, crossing over beaver damms and through the forest to reach the Beagle Channel shore where we will take the boat to start our return to Ushuaia.

Overnight at hotel

Meals: Breakfast

Day 6:                                  Ushuaia - El Calafate

After breakfast this morning, proceed for the Ushuaia National Park Excursion.

Park Entrance Fee Not Included. Further return to hotel, freshen up and check out from hotel and transfer to airport for your flight to El Calafate with English Speaking driver. Arrive El Calafate and transfer to hotel by English speaking driver. Check in and freshen up.

Overnight at hotel  

Meals:  Breakfast

Day 7:                                  El Calafate - Mini Trekking Perito Moreno Glacier

After breakfast this morning, proceed for a full day excursion of mini trekking with bilingual guide to Perito Moreno Glacier on seat in coach basis. Park Entrance Fee Not Included.

This mini-trekking tour of Perito Moreno Glacier is a unique experience where you’ll walk over the ancient ice fields of the Perito Moreno, the most famous glacier in Patagonia, Argentina. A full day ice trekking excursion from El Calafate offers unbelievable views of the breath-taking icy nature: vibrant, deep blues, waterfalls, peaks, lakes, caves; A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be in direct contact with the Perito Moreno glacier. Your professional bilingual tour guide will provide you with fascinating information on the glaciers and the movements of Perito Moreno that can be witnessed up close. On the beach of Lake Argentino, you’ll be assisted to attach your crampons which give you a better grip whilst trekking on the surface of the Perito Moreno Glacier. The Perito Moreno mini-trekking adventure trail passes all the glacial sightseeing highlights of incredible natural beauty such as, waterfalls formed by ice-melt water, a field of seracs (fragmented and sharp ice blocks), deep cracks and lakes. After approximately two hours of ice trekking on the Perito Moreno Glacier the group will return to the refuge to have lunch and you will finish this exciting full day mini-trekking excursion with a free hour to explore the wooden walkways in front of Perito Moreno glacier.

Overnight at hotel

Meals:  Breakfast

Day 8:                                  El Calafate - Leisure

After breakfast this morning, day at leisure to explore El Calafate on your own.

Overnight at hotel

Meals:  Breakfast

Day 9:                                  El Calafate - Salta

After breakfast this morning, check out from hotel and transfer by English speaking guide to airport for your flight to Salta. Arrive Salta and transfer to hotel with English speaking driver. Check and in freshen up.

Overnight at hotel   

Meals: Breakfast

Day 10:                                Salta - Safari of the Clouds

After breakfast this morning, proceed for Safari of the Clouds excursion with bilingual guide.

The first day of Safari to the Clouds guests travel in a two separate cabin configured 18 seat Mercedes 4x4 overland vehicle designed for the terrain it will encounter today. The adventure is hosted by a professional English speaking crew of three - two exceptionally talented local guides & a professional driver. The huge Mercedes overland 4x4 vehicle climbs the quebrada to the mezzanine level of the altiplano, passing through three completely different ecosystems ranging from river valley, to tundra, on up to encounter 3m - 4m tall cactus that have taken 400+ years to grow, strewn at random across hillsides you will pass along the way. Here this salt flat extends some 42km in length & 17km in width. The salt is `harvested` commercially by locals using an ancient hand sawn process to cut blocks. Then cresting a quebrada at 14300` above sea level, the expedition travels down a tarsealed alpine highway, shedding 7000` in approx 30 minutes drive, down to the altiplano township of Purmamarca, famous for the ¨Hills of the Seven Colours¨. Late this afternoon you will depart & return to Salta & your hotel, arriving well after sunset.

Overnight at hotel

Meals: Breakfast

Day 11:                                Salta - Iguazu Falls

After breakfast this morning, check out from hotel and transfer to airport for your flight to Iguazu Falls. Arrive Buenos Aires and proceed for your connecting flight to Iguazu Falls.  Arrive Iguazu Falls and transfer to hotel with English speaking guide. Check in and freshen up.

Overnight at hotel

Meals: Breakfast

Day 12:                                Iguazu Falls - Buenos Aires- Argentina side Tour

After breakfast this morning you will be picked up & by way of regular coach, embark on full day regular excursion of the Argentinean side of our planets most majestic waterfalls, accompanied by an English speaking guide.

 Iguazu Falls is made up of more than 270 cataracts, spread around three large half-moon shaped valleys. There are two basic circuits, an upper & a lower walking trail The upper path leads to incredible panoramic views of the falls from an extensive steel walkway, also an unforgettable experience, & he lower trail leads down a series of steel stair cases & viewing platforms to the base of the San Martin cataract where the intense water volume releases a misty spray into the air. Then also as an included part of your Iguazu experience, the ´People Mover` narrow gauge train gives guests access along a track of some 3.5km, to the steel walkway that goes out across the mezzanine level of the river to the point where physically Argentina & Brazil’s international border is defined by the thunderous ´Garganta del Diablo` – the Devil’s Throat.

At the conclusion of your day’s activities here at Iguazu Falls, you will be returned to your hotel, freshen up and check out from hotel and proceed to Iguazu airport for your flight to Buenos Aires

Overnight at hotel

Meals: Breakfast

Day 13:                                Depart

After breakfast this morning, enjoy the city of Buenos Aires.. Do not forget to buy some souvenirs.. Later this evening check out from hotel and transfer to airport by English speaking guide. Return back to home with sweet memories of Argentina only with Beacon Holidays..!!