In this 16 day tour in Argentina you will discovery the most amazing destination of Argentina.
You travel from the Jungle and north of Argentina to El Calafate and its Perito Moreno Glacier and Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. On this trip, you’ll see the highlights of one of South America’s most beautiful countries
– Descubre la cultura única de Argentina y su increíble gastronomía.
– Explore the most amazing destinations and landscapes that Argentinas has to offer from
North to South and from east to west.
– Walk along Buenos Aires city, enjoy contact with nature at the wonderful Iguazu Falls, marvel with the colourful landscapes of the north and visit the famous southern patagonia and its lakes and glaciers.
Day 1 – Arrival in Buenos Aires
We welcome you at Buenos Aires Airport (Aeroparque Jorge Newbery or the International Airport Ezeiza). Then transfer to the hotel located in the city center of the city. The rest of the day is at leisure to visit the city on your own.
Accommodation in Buenos Aires – Double or Single BaseIncluded meals: None by We People Travel & Experiences
Optional excursion recommended: “The Argentine Experience”.
At night a transfer will pick you up to enjoy an atypical dinner experience where you will learn about the Argentine culture, taste fantastic local dishes, drink exceptional wine, and mingle with fellow travelers in a fun setting. This is a five main course dinner which includes:
Welcome: Wine- base cocktail and a Patagonia trout tartar.
Empanadas: You will learn how to make your own empanadas. Fillings are beef stew or capresse (cheese mozzarella and provolone, roasted cherries tomatoes and basil)
Picada: Typical Argentine cuts of meat to nibble.
Main Course: 200 grs of tenderloin accompanied by roasted vegetables Desserts: Tasting of sweets and cheeses.
Mate tasting and alfajores class dulce de leche mousse.
After dinner we go back to our hotel
Día 2: Visita Buenos Aires – Cena Tango Show
Hoy podrás disfrutar de una fantástica introducción a Buenos Aires:
In three fun-filled and exciting hours (including pick-up and drop-off times) our team of reliable and professional drivers and very passionate, attentive, informative, knowledgeable, and helpful tour guides with outstanding English skills will tour you in a small group of no more than 12 guests around Buenos Aires city, bringing it to life with their live commentary full of background information, facts and insights that you will not be able to find in any book or travel guide. This tour offers the perfect balance between driving and light walking, which will allow you to get a great overview of the city’s most iconic areas and districts in just half of a day, and at the same time have the possibility to get off the vehicle, and walk around and have a deeper understanding of the key locations within Buenos Aires: Plaza de Mayo, La Boca neighborhood, and many other attractions.
We highly recommend doing this tour as it is a great introduction to some of the key highlights of Buenos Aires, perfect for giving you a chance to find your way around and decide where to spend more time later on. Then we go back to our hotel.
At night a transfer will pick you up to enjoy a dinner tango show in one of the most prestigious dance venues of Buenos Aires. Located in the heart of San Telmo, Buenos Aires old quarter, this show features over 30 artists on stage with a live orchestra that will leave you speechless.
Entering the building is like traveling back in time: it used to be an old tenement house, and the interior is very well preserved. Featuring both tango and folklore, this is one of the most complete shows Buenos Aires has to offer. Then we go back to our accommodation.
Accommodation in Buenos Aires – Double or Single Base
Included meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Día 3 – Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires After breakfast free day to visit the city. We recommend to do a Gaucho day tour to an Argentinian Ranch (Optional tour – non included) where you will be able to explore the countryside of Buenos Aires and learn all about the gauchos and ranch life on the Pampas in an exciting full-day tour that includes visits to a historical rural town and silversmith museum, visits to a ranch, loads of food and wine, dancing, horseback-riding, gaucho horse skills display, and convenient pick-up and drop-off at your hotel. Standard Lodging: Hotel Carles or similar in Double / Single Base Superior
Alojamiento en Buenos Aires – Base Doble o Sencilla
Included meals: Breakfast
Recommended Optional Excursion: Full Day Ranch San Antonio de Areco.
Day 4 – Buenos Aires – Iguazú – Visit Brazilian Side of the Falls
At the indicated time we transfer to Buenos Aires airport to take our flight to our next destination: Iguazu. Upon arrival at Iguazu Airport (IGR) we transfer to the hotel. Then we will do the excursion through the Brazilian Falls, visiting a traditional footbridge with wonderful panoramic views. The extension of the walkways is 1,200 meters from where you get a spectacular panoramic view of the 275 falls that make up the Iguazu Falls, of which the most important on the Brazilian side are 4: Floriano, Deodoro, Benjamin Constant and Salto Unión or Garganta of the Devil. After the tour, you have access to the panoramic elevator that allows you to reach the bus that will leave us again at the access portal. Then we go back to our hotel in the Argentinian Side.
Accommodation in Puerto Iguazu – Double or Single Base
Included meals: Breakfast
Recommended Optional Excursion: “Bird Park”
Domestic Flight from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazú is not included
Day 5 – Visit Argentinian Side of the Falls
Today we will visit the argentinian side of the falls, where we will enjoy of this amazing views from different angles and perspectives. Entering through the visitor center, several walks are carried out in the jungle to admire the giants of this green world, the jungle that gives us its aromas, its colors, its freshness, a unique contact with this increasingly scarce biome in the world. The walkways offer wonderful visits to the falls and the opportunity to be in contact with the fauna. From colorful insects like dragonflies, butterflies, and beetles; the curious coatis and monkeys; great variety of birds such as magpies, jotes and toucans; and there are days when we are surprised by the timid look of a roe deer, a capybara or even a puma watching the pass from the edge of the mountain. A ride on the narrow gauge train completes Las Delicias for adults and children, it is a service that links the 3 different circuits or walkways of the National Park; lower, upper and devil’s throat. The always satisfied visitor is the goal, with joy to the fullest, accompanied by the best guides who know secrets, legends and anecdotes that will make the visit to this world heritage site and one of the 7 wonders of the world more complete. You can also combine the walks with optional water rides or a Jungle Safari. Then we go back to our accommodation.
Accommodation in Puerto Iguazu – Double or Single Base
Included meals: Breakfast
Recommended Optional Excursion: “The Great Adventure” – Safari Boat Trip
Day 6 – Puerto Iguazú – Salta
At the indicated time we transfer to Puerto Iguazu Airport to take our flight to our next destination: Salta, in the north region of Argentina. Upon arrival we transfer to our accommodation. The rest of the day is at leisure to visit the city on our own. We recommend to visit Cerro San Bernardo, which has amazing views of Salta´s city.
Alojamiento en Salta – Base Doble o Sencilla
Included meals: Breakfast
Day 7 – Salta – Salinas Grandes – Purmamarca
Early, after breakfast we start our day of traveling through incredible landscapes. We make a parallel route of the Train of the Clouds railway by Quebrada del Toro. Then we continue, starting the ascent until reaching 4080 meters above sea level and get to San Antonio de los Cobres. We make a break for lunch and enjoy some of the typical meals offered in the village. Back in the vehicle, we cross route 40 until we reach Salinas Grandes, right on the border between Salta and Jujuy. Then we start the descent by Cuesta de Lipán where condors are usually seen. We arrive at Purmamarca town and its Hill of Seven Colors. We continue our trip to Tilcara, where we spend the night.
Accommodation in Purmamarca – Double or Single Base
Included meals: Breakfast
Day 8 – Purmamarca
After breakfast the rest of the day is at leisure to visit Purmamarca on our own.
Accommodation in Purmamarca – Double or Single Base
Included meals: Breakfast
Day 9 – Quebrada de Humahuaca – Salta
Leaving in the morning, we will visit Unesco World Heritage Quebrada de Humahuaca. We visit Purmamarca and its colorful “Seven Colours Hill”. Then, we enter the Quebrada de Humahuaca, passing through the Posta de Hornillos, continuing towards the town of Tilcara. We continue to Huacalera, passing through the Tropic of Capricorn, from where you can see the colors of the hill called “Pollera de la Colla”. We visit the mystical Church of Uquía, where the paintings of the Arcabuceros Angels (important vestige in the area of the Cuzqueña school) are located. Then we arrive in Humahuaca and admire its important Cathedral and the Independence Monument (El Indio) by the sculptor Soto Avendaño. After lunch we return to observe “Paleta del Pintor” mountain range that frames the town of Maimara from the route. And at the end of the afternoon, we arrived in the city of Salta.
Alojamiento en Salta – Base Doble o Sencilla
Included meals: Breakfast
Día 10 – Salta
After breakfast the day is at leisure to do any of the optional excursions that Salta has to offer us.
Alojamiento en Salta – Base Doble o Sencilla
Included meals: Breakfast
Recommended Optional Excursion: “Full Day Cafayate with Wine Tasting”
Day 11 – Salta – El Calafate
At the indicated time we transfer to Salta Airport to take our flight to the land of glaciers: El Calafate. Upon arrival a transfer will be waiting for us to take us to our acommodation.
Alojamiento en El Calafate – Base Doble o Sencilla
Included meals: Breakfast
Día 12: Glaciar Perito Moreno Glacier con Navegación Safari Nautico
We dedicate this day to one of the World’s Natural Wonder: the Moreno glacier. This ice field- type glacier flows down from the Patagonian Icefield, a big sheet of ice that with its 22.000 square kilometers is the third largest glacier area in the world, after Antarctica (14 M sq km) and Greenland (1 M sq km). Because unusual favorable local conditions, this glacier is the only one in the world that shows a closure and rupture process. The road leads to the very front of the glacier, which will be only meters away from your eyes. The roar of the chunks of ice falling inside the glacier or from the glacier into the lake, the frequent collapse of the front seracs into the turquoise water, makes out of this day a very special and unique experience. Then we wil go up to “Bajo de las Sombras” from where, you will board the catamaran boat to navigate the Lago Rico where your will be able to appreciate the amazing ice wall of the Perito Moreno Glacier and its icebergs. Then we go back to
our accommodation in El Calafate.
Alojamiento en El Calafate – Base Doble o Sencilla
Included meals: Breakfast and box lunch
Día 13 – El Calafate
Free day at El Calafate to do any of the optional tours that El Calafate has to offer us.
Alojamiento en El Calafate – Base Doble o Sencilla
Included meals: Breakfast.
Recommended Optional Excursion: “Full Day El Chalten”
Recommended Optional Excursion: “Full Day Ranch at Nibepo Aike”
Day 14 – El Calafate – Ushuaia – Beagle Channel Boat Trip
At the indicated time we transfer to El Calafate Airport to take our flight to our next destination: Ushuaia. Upon arrival we transfer from Ushuaia Airport to the Hotel in the city center. In the afternoon we go the pier from where we depart from the local seaport toward Alicia Island, where
we will find a colony of South American sea lions. Then we sail to Bird Island to watch king shags and imperial shags living close to their nests, and from spring through fall we can even find their breeds. Again, we head east towards another small island that, depending on the season, we can view South American fur seals. Very close to this island is Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, an authentic symbol of Ushuaia, built in 1919. From there we have a view of the island where rock shags live.
On our way back to Ushuaia, we disembark at Bridges Island to walk along a path for the interpretation of wildlife, while listening to the history of the native inhabitants, the Yamanas. On this island, we can find the largest Yamana’s “concheros” (shelly deposits) of the region. As this is
the largest island, we reach the highest panoramic point from which we can enjoy amazing views of the Beagle Channel with the town of Ushuaia in the distance. Then we go back to our hotel.
Accommodation in ushuaia – Double or Single Base
Included meals: Breakfast
Domestic flight from El Calafate to Ushuaia is not included.
Day 15 – Tierra del Fuego National Park
Leaving the city of Ushuaia, heading southwest, we will travel the national route No. 3, towards Tierra del Fuego National Park. After crossing the Pipo River bridge, next to the Ushuaia Golf Club, we will arrive at the station of the Austral Fueguino Railway, the End of the World Train. where we will get on board one of the most magical trains. Along the road surrounded by Lenga forests and peat bogs, we will arrive at Lake Acigami (formerly Lake Roca), a lake of glacial origin, framed by mountains and forests, where it is possible to spot specimens of native birds. The last section of the tour takes us to Bahía Lapataia, after crossing the cormorant archipelago, peat bogs and a visit to a beaver dam. In Bahía Lapataia, in addition to the marine coast, rich in mollusks and mussels, we will find vestiges of the ancient aboriginal people that inhabited the region. There we will have time to walk the walkway from which we can take pictures and enjoy the feeling of being at the end of the world. Then we will return to our accommodation in Uhsuaia.
Accommodation in ushuaia – Double or Single Base
Included meals: Breakfast
Day 16 – Ushuaia – Ushuaia airport
At the indicated we transfer to Ushuaia´s airport where our services end.
Comidas incluidas: Desayuno
SERVICIOS INCLUIDOS
• Transfer from / to the Airport at all destinations
• 3 Night´s Accommodations in Buenos Aires – Double or Single Base
• Sightseeing in Buenos Aires – Shared Service – 3 Hours with English Speaking Guide
• Dinner Tango Show with transfers from / to the hotel
• 2 Night´s Accommodations in Puerto Iguazú – Double or Single Base
• Visit Argentinian Side of Falls with English Speaking Guide
• Visit Brazilian Side of Falls with English Speaking Guide
• 3 Night´s Accommodations in Salta – Double or Single Base
• Full Day Tour Salinas Grandes and Purmamarca with English Speaking Guide
• 2 Night´s Accommodations in Purmamarca – Double or Single Base
• Full Day Tour Quebrada de Humahuaca with English Speaking Guide
• 3 Night´s Accommodations in El Calafate – Double or Single Base
• Full Day Perito Moreno Glacier with English Speaking Guide • Safari Nautico Boat Trip • 2 Night´s Accommodations in Ushuaia – Double or Single Base • Beagle Channel Boat Trip • Tierra del Fuego National Park with English Speaking Guide • 15 Breakfast, 1 Box Lunch, 1 DinnerSERVICIOS NO INCLUIDOS
• Entradas a Parques Nacionales
• Consejos
• Flights
• Meals not detailed in the program
• Services not detailed in the program
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