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Day 1: Buenos Aires IN
Day 2: Buenos Aires / Around (8 hours of route including a visit to the Estancia Santa Susana)
Day 3: Buenos Aires / Ushuaia (3h35 flight)
Day 4: Ushuaia / Canal de Beagle / El Calafate (around 1h10 of navigation and 1h 25 flight to El Calafate)
Day 5: El Calafate (around 1h of route to go) / return plus the visit of the Perito Moreno Glacier
Day 6: El Calafate / Buenos Aires (3h flight)
Day 7: Buenos Aires OUT
Arrival at Ezeiza International Airport. Reception by your guide and transfer to the hotel BROADWAY HOTEL & SUITES**** or SIMILAR.
Lunch in a restaurant in downtown Buenos Aires.
Bus ride through the main avenues: 9 de Julio to contemplate the Obelisk; Corrientes Avenue with its numerous theaters, cinemas, bookshops and restaurants and Avenida de Mayo, with its beautiful historic buildings. Pass through the famous Colon Theatre with its beautiful end of the century architecture. Pass along the Plaza de Mayo to contemplate the Pink House, which is the current Government Palace. You will visit the “Café Tortoni”, founded in 1858. It is a symbolic place, a meeting point of the “porteños”, the inhabitants of Buenos Aires.
Visit the typical neighborhoods of Buenos Aires: San Telmo and its nostalgic atmosphere, and La Boca with its colorful tin houses and variety of dancers and popular singers of tango. Walk in the cemetery of La Recoleta next to the beautiful Church of Our Lady of Pilar. The cemetery was declared a national monument by its grandiose mausoleums, including that of Evita Peron.
Dinner not included.
Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast at the hotel.
Departure to Pampa around Buenos Aires, desert plain dotted with ranches and small towns.
Visit the estancia on foot or on horseback to discover all aspects of a farm of Argentine farming, in particular the work of the gauchos.
Tasting of an “asado” prepared by the gauchos.
After lunch, presentation of traditional “gaucho games”.
Back in Buenos Aires.
Dinner not included.
Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast at the hotel.
In the morning, departure to the national airport of Buenos Aires. Flight to Ushuaia (flight not included).
Panoramic City tour of Ushuaia, a city with a very interesting history.
It begins about 1869 when the Anglican missionary arrived on board the Allen Gardiner schooner, in order to evangelize the natives.
This task was followed afterwards by reverend Thomas Bridge.
Then, visit of the “End Of the World” Museum.
Lunch in a local restaurant.
In the afternoon, navigation across the Beagle Channel.
This excursion goes until the Eclaireurs lighthouse that shows the entrance to Ushuaia’s bay to the navigators. During the circuit, several species of birds (Birds Island) and a colony of sea lions (Sea Lions Island) are seen.
Dinner not included.
Overnight at hotel ALTOS DE USHUAIA *** or SIMILAR
Breakfast at the hotel.
In the morning, visit National Park of Tierra del Fuego, established in 1960.
It is home to fauna and flora including Patagonian Araucaria, variety of wild pine particular to this region.
Lunch in a typical restaurant.
Transfer to the airport.
Flight to El Calafate (flight not included)
Reception by your guide.
Transfer to the Hotel RINCÓN DEL CALAFATE *** or similar.
Dinner not included.
Overnight at hotel
Breakfast at the hotel.
Route to the Glacier National Park to discover the Perito Moreno glacier, declared a natural monument of World Heritage by Unesco.
It’s a privilege to contemplate the blue ice mountain placed on the lake Argentino.
Both powerful and fragile, the Perito is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful glaciers of our planet.
Approach the glacier crossing long bridges provided for this purpose. Free time for your contemplation and many photos…
Option 1 : Nautical Safari
Navigation on Lake Argentino and approach the walls of the Perito Moreno glacier (80 meters high).
Lunch in a local restaurant.
In the late afternoon we offer a second option:
Option 2 : Estancia Alice
Depart towards Estancia Alice located 30 minutes from Calafate at the heart of Patagonia. During this visit, authentic Patagonian gauchos will show you their work as sheep farmers: wool shearing and dog training that monitor and gather the herds.
Hiking around the ranch to discover the fauna (birds) and the Patagonian flora. A dinner will be served to you by gauchos in the rustic setting of the restaurant of the estancia. Presentation of dances and traditional songs.
Dinner not included.
Overnight at hotel
Breakfast at the hotel.
Morning aboard a 4X4 drive to the Patagonian steppe to the summit of Cerro Frias. An extraordinary view overlooking the valley and the Andes Mountains. With good weather, one can see the famous mountains of Torres del Paine in Chile.
Lunch during the visit.
Transfer to the airport.
Flight to Buenos Aires. Flight not included (recommended flight AR1821 3:15 p.m. 6:10 p.m.).
Reception by your guide. Transfer to the hotel BROADWAY HOTELS & SUITES **** or SIMILAR.
Dinner not included.
Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast at the hotel.
Free time for personal discoveries and purchases.
Lunch not included.
Transfer to the international airport. Assistance with boarding formalities.
Back in Buenos Aires.
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