Argentina - More Than A Tango Tour - 8 days - Small
Group
Small Group tour /
Guaranteed departures
from Buenos Aires
Accommodation in 3 and 4 star hotels
Buenos Aires (2) - Ushuaia (2) - Calafate (2) - Buenos Aires (1)
Category:
Cultural group tour
Day 1: Arrive Buenos Aires
Arrival at
Buenos Aires
airport, meet your greeter and transfer to the hotel and
check-in.
Day 2: Buenos Aires (B)
After breakfast you will visit the most
important sites during a city tour. You will drive to the Plaza
de Mayo, with the Casa Rosada, the pink house, seat of the
government, the Cabildo (town hall) and the Metropolitan
Cathedral, home of the Archbishop of Buenos Aires. The tour goes
onto the district San Telmo. Until 1888 this part of the city
was a river port, today San Telmo is one of the most modern and
desired places to live in Buenos Aires. The worker district La
Boca is famous for its colourful tin-houses and its history as
living district of Italian seamen and dock workers in the 19th
century. The Barrio Norte called Recoleta is the quarter of the
rich of Buenos Aires.
On the cemetery of Recoleta
one will find the grave of Eva Duarte who became famous as Evita
Perón. Continue along the widest avenue in the world, the
Avenida 9 de Julio, to the Plaza Lavalle with the Federal Court
of Justice and the Teatro Colón, to Palermo with its parks and
gardens. Return to the hotel.
Optional:
half day
Tigre Tour.
From your hotel we will drive along the Northern
residential districts of the city, until getting to
San Isidro, a colonial and
aristocratic area. You will see the mansions and houses
in front of the River Plate.
You will continue the driving to
Tigre, a charming area near Buenos Aires city where a
great number of summer residences, yacht clubs and
rowing clubs attract the week-end activity of many
“porteños”.
The Tigre Delta with its rivers,
streams and numerous green islands is one of the most
attractive areas for visitors. The continuous sediment
of the Paraná River,
which gives the river and estuary their particular
brownish-red color, forms the Delta islands. Enjoy a
boat excursion (1 hour) along the innumerable channels
of the Paraná-Delta to see some of the hundreds of
islands covered with luxuriant vegetation. Drive back to
the city to your hotel via the Panamericana highway.
Optional: visit of a Tango Show incl. dinner at the Restaurant
Viejo Almacen.
Day 3: Buenos Aires- Ushuaia
(B)
Transfer to the domestic airport for
the flight to Ushuaia. Upon arrival at Ushuaia airport transfer to your
hotel.
Day 4: Ushuaia (B)
In the morning you will go on a half day
tour to the Tierra del Fuego
National Park,
where you will get the impression as if time goes slower than
anywhere else. The long stormy winters and the width of the sky
formed a very simple and modest way of living. The National Park
is crossed by many rivers which flow into the Beagle Channel.
Drive through the park to enjoy the landscapes and have a little
walk.
In the afternoon the following optional tour can be
booked with your guide.
Optional: Catamaran tour on the Beagle Channel
The Beagle Channel became its name due to the
expedition from Charles Darwin. You will pass through the
Casco
Island
where a lot of nest from seabirds and sea lions can be seen onto
the Island Los Lobos to see the sea lions.
Day 5: Ushuaia - Calafate (B)
Transfer to the airport and flight to El
Calafate. Pick up at the airport by our local guide and transfer
to the hotel.
The afternoon is at leisure or you can book the optional
tour of Glaciarium Museum.
Optional: Half day Glaciarium Museum
(duration about 2h 30min) The Glaciarum Museum is the
first museum in South America dedicated to the glaciers
and Patagonia ice. It has a privileged location,
situated close to El Calafate town (20 minutes drive) on
the way to Los Glaciares National Park. The whole
complex is a last generation interpretation centre which
will offer to the visitors an interactive exhibition
with the aim to learn about the glaciers. It`s an
interactive museum with theme rooms, exhibitions showing
recent investigations, scenic & lighting effects,
multimedia programs and audiovisuals. It also counts
with a permanent exhibition focused on global climate
changes and the environmental problems on earth.
Day 6: Calafate – Perito Moreno - Calafate (B)
Today guests will go on a full day tour to the Perito Moreno
Glacier. After a drive through the National Park Los Glaciares
one arrive all of a sudden in a forest full of colours, before
one sees - equally unexpected - the glacier Perito Moreno. This
is one of the few glaciers that are still growing. Every 4 to 5
years it covers the gap between the mainland and itself and
grows into the Lago Argentino. Eventually the ice cannot resist
the enormous pressure of the water and crashes with a
frightening noise. One can watch this glacier spectacle every
day when single ice blocks fall into the lake. Considering that
the glacier is 5 km long and 70 m high one can imagine the noise
this makes. Here we will have 2 hours to experience the glacier
before driving back to Calafate.
Day 7: Calafate – Buenos Aires
(B)
Transfer to the airport for the flight
back to Buenos Aires.
Upon arrival transfer to the hotel.
Day 8: Departure (B)
Transfer to airport for flight back home.
Thank you for visiting Argentina.
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