Argentina journey: Buenos Aires, Ushuaia, El Calafate & Iguazu Falls

Today you will be enjoy to enjoy a fantastic introduction to Buenos Aires:

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, San Telmo, Puerto Madero neighborhoods, and many other attractions. 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. 

At night you can choose one of the famous restaurants in Buenos Aires where you can taste the best meat. 

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.

Lodging in Buenos Aires - Double or Single Base 

Included meals: Breakfast, Dinner 

Reccommended options excursion:

La Ventana Tango Show

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 transfer back to your accommodation. 

At the indicated time, transfer to Buenos Aires Airport to take your flight to your next destination: Ushuaia (USH), the city of the end of the world. Upon arrival, transfer to your accommodation. 

Lodging in Ushuaia - Double or Single Base 

Included meals: Breakfast

Domestic Flight from Buenos Aires (AEP or EZE) to Ushuaia (USH) is not included 

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. 

Lodging in Ushuaia - Double or Single Base 

Included Meals: Breakfast 

Today we walk to the touristic pier and get on board to our boat trip in the legendary Beagle Channel. We visit Alicia Island where we will watch a colony of Sea Lions, the Island of Birds where we can see Cormorants and the Light House Les Eclaireurs built by 1919. We get back to the port while we watch the Darwin range to the West and the Andes above Ushuaia. 

Lodging in Ushuaia - Double or Single Base 

Included Meals: Breakfast 

According to your flight schedule, you will be picked up at your hotel to go to Ushuaia airport (USH) to take your flight to El Calafate, in southern Patagonia. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel. 

Lodging in Buenos Aires - Double or Single Base 

Included meals: Breakfast

Domestic Flight from Ushuaia (USH) to El Calafate (FTE) is not included.

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.

Lodging in El Calafate - Double or Single Base 

Included meals: Breakfast

Optional Dinner Experience at Rancho Aparte Restaurant

Rancho Aparte experience will allow you to savor home-cooked meal in a warm and friendly atmosphere. The dishes are prepared with local products and a ubiquitous ingredient 

in homemade food...lots of love! 

The menu is accompanied by selected wine pairings from Argentine and Patagonian wineries. Therefore, with each course we respect the aromas and flavors in a harmonious 

and palatable way. It has four fixed menus; two of them "traditional". They are based on regional cuisine and adapt the local products to a journey of unforgettable flavors. The 

other two menus are "vegetarians or vegans". They are designed so that those who choose this type of food can also enjoy this experience, where most of the ingredients used 

are selected from organic farms in the area. 

After breakfast the rest of the day is at leisure to do any of the optional tours that El Calafate has to offer us. 

Lodging in El Calafate - Double or Single Base 

Included meals: Breakfast

Optional Excursion Recommended: “Ranch Day at Nibepo Aike with Lunch or Dinner"

Opportunity to spend the day at the ranch which allows to know the history of the estancia, admire the gaucho skills and demonstration of shearing. Before lunch, a walk or horseback ride to the narrows where the Roca Lake drains into the Argentino Lake, culminating the program with the renowned lamb roast.

Reception with hot drinks and fried cakes/homemade puddings, walk around the old historic quarter, milking and herding sheep, shearing demonstration and rein testing.

Lunch: Roast Lamb with salads, dessert and a drink.

Transfers from / to El Calafate 

After breakfast we transfer to Buenos Aires airport (AEP / EZE) to take our flight to our next destination: Puerto Iguazu (IGR). Upon arrival at Iguazu Airport we transfer to the hotel.

Lodging in Puerto Iguazú - Double or Single Base 

Included meals: Breakfast

Domestic Flight from El Calafate (FTE) to Puerto Iguazú (IGR) is not included. Please notice you need combined flights in Buenos Aires. We recommend to take a morning flight from El Calafate

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. 

Lodging in Puerto Iguazú - Double or Single Base 

Included meals: Breakfast 

Optional Excursion Recommended: “The Great Adventure"

Starting from the Operative Central or from the Visitor Center, you will enter the jungle through the narrow Yacaratiá Trail in units designed for this particular environment. This 5 km vehicular route culminates in the Puerto Macuco jungle base. After descending 100 meters you will arrive at the dock where you can board the boats with which you will go up 6 km up the Lower Iguazú river gorge towards the waterfall area enjoying the mighty rapids, to the base of the Tres Mosqueteros waterfall, watching the set of Brazilian waterfalls Argentines, with the Devil’s Throat crowning the view of the canyon. Later, you will reach the maximum point of emotion when facing the incomparable Salto San Martín, second in size and the largest that a boat can approach. To finish, we will disembark at the dock located in front of San Martín Island from where you can rejoin the walkway system, through the Lower Circuit. 

Today we will visit the Brazilian Side of the Falls, this 175.000 hectares National Park thrills with its amazing beauty and biodiversity vegetable and animal species. Since 80% of the 

total 275 falls pour their water in the Argentinian side, they show their beauty facing Brazil. The Brazilian side offers the most spectacular front panoramic views throughout the near a thousand meters walkway. At the end of it, facing Floriano fall there is a viewpoint that can be reached through the elevator, from where we will enjoy of one of the most extraordinary views of the waterfalls.

Lodging in Puerto Iguazú - Double or Single Base 

Included meals: Breakfast

Optional Excursion Recommended: “The Bird Park”

Rare and colorful tropical birds fly in large nurseries integrated into the exuberant subtropical forest. Visitors have the opportunity to enter these nurseries to learn about the life of the birds. In addition to them, yacares, anacondas, boas, tit monkeys and butterflies can be visited. 

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From April 2025, passport holders from the United States, Canada and Australia will need to present an eVisa which must be applied for through online.  

The application process is done completely online and for such, no facilitation is required by any intermediaries.

According to your flight schedule, you will be picked up at your hotel to go to Puerto iguazu airport (IGR) to take your flight back to Buenos Aires. 

From here, if you need, you can add nights in Buenos Aires, transfer to international airport, or continue visiting Argentina. 

We can help you with all the arrangements. 

Included meals: Breakfast

Domestic Flight from Puerto Iguazu (IGR) to Buenos Aires (AEP / EZE) is not included.