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TOURS / BUENOS AIRES, USHUAIA, EL CALAFATE / CTSD-3

THE PACKAGE PRICES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING SERVICES:

•  Accommodation in three star hotels

•  American breakfast, Lunch and dinner according to the description

•  Transportation in private car or minivan according to number of participants

•  All transfers, sightseeing and excursions according to program

•  English-speaking local guide.

 


THE PACKAGE PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE:

•  Meals and extras not mentioned in the program

•  Tips to porters in hotels

•  All extras and services not mentioned in the program

•  Tip to guide and driver

•  Drinks

•  Personal expenses

•  International departure tax
$ 2103,00 Price per person minimum 2 pax


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Itinerary:
DAY 1 – Buenos Aires:

Meet and greet at Ezeiza international airport and transfer to the selected hotel. Dinner at Las Nazarenas. 3 course meal. Drinks are not included.


DAY 2 – Buenos Aires & Ushuaia

After breakfast transfer to the domestic airport to aboard flight to Ushuaia. Meet and greet at Ushuaia airport. Transfer to the hotel. Check in. In the afternoon visit to Tierra Del Fuego National Park: The entrance to Tierra del Fuego National Park is at 12 km from Ushuaia. It is the only one with maritime coast in the country. It occupies a surface of 63.000 hectares where we can find firebushes, beech trees, ñires, box-leafed barberries, and flowers such us orchids, violets and another species. Doing this excursion we will be dosed to Nature. Following a road around the mountains we will see the peat bogs and the beaver dams before arriving at Lapataia River . Once we cross the river, we will have a nice view of Laguna Verde and the upland geese and ibis that come here every summer. We suggest you take a long walk along a path up to Laguna Negra or the Beavers Path, to know the work of these curious animals. In Lapataia Bay (the end of the National Road N.3) it is possible to see the area where the old inhabitants of the Island left their testimony: the Yamana kitchen, an interesting archeological place. Before returning to Ushuaia we are going to stop in front of Lago Roca, whose colour varies according to the weather. Dinner at Tante Nina restaurant. Drinks are not included.


DAY 3 – Ushuaia / El Calafate

Breakfast at the hotel We leave Ushuaia by sailing the Beagle Channel waters passing the Ushuaia Bay, the north cost of the channel, the archipiélago and Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, where it is possible to visit different sea bird nests, seals areas and several types of coastal and sea birds (petrels, albatrosses, cormorants, oyster catchers, etc). After approaching the Lighthouse, we will sail back to Ushuaia. After navigation you will taste an excellent Patagonian lamb on a traditional restaurant (drinks not included). After lunch transfer to the airport. Meet and greet at El Calafate airport. Transfer to the hotel. Check in. Dinner at the hotel.


DAY 04 – Calafate:

Early in the morning, at 7:30 the bus will pick you up in the Hotel. We have 45 km until Punta Bandera. At 9:00 AM we leave from Punta Bandera and sail through the northern section of Lake Argentino to the Glacier Upsala where we spend approximately 30 minutes cruising along the glacier face before heading for Bahía Onelli. Lunch will be held on Bahía Onelli restaurant. Drinks are not included. We stay in the area of Bahía Onelli for 3 hours to allow passengers the opportunity to stroll through the forest to the point where the 3 glaciers Onelli, Bolado and Agazzi meet and to continue their walk along the Lake shore to see Glacier Haim. Should adverse weather conditions prevent us from sailing to Onelli we will redirect our voyage via Spegazzini Channel to visit Glacier Seco, Spegazzini and Souther Heim. Dinner at the hotel. 1 soft drink is included.


DAY 5 - El Calafate:

Breakfast at the hotel. Excursion to glacier Perito Moreno Departure from the Hotel at 8:30 AM , by way of provincial route N.11, 80 km from El Calafate city, on a gravel road, towering over Lake Argentino in a blaze of colours, the impressive glacier will make a big impact of yours senses. Slopping several times to take photos in strategic places. Guides will explain the general features of glacier and give specific details of Glacier Perito Moreno's flora and fauna, and its particular fomation. Visitors stay about 4 hours on the Glacier balconies, walking along pathways and admiring it, from different viewpoints. Lunch at Ventisquero Moreno. Drinks are not included. Dinner at the hotel. 1 soft drink at the hotel.


DAY 6 – El Calafate & Buenos Aires

Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport to take flight to Buenos Aires. Meet and greet at Buenos Aires domestic airport. Check in at the hotel. Lunch at El Viejo Almacén. After lunch we will make the sightseeing of the city. An approximately 3 hours tour that will allow you to discover all de magic of the capital of the Argentina Republic. You will be able to appreciate de magnificence of the Northern Neighborhood, Palermo and the beautiful of its parks and buildings; the Domestic Airport, just opposite the promenade by the Río de la Plata; the imposing Colón Theatre, one of the five most important opera houses in the world; and the peculiar architecture of buildings such as the Palace of Justice, the National Congress, the Cabildo (Old Town Hall) or the Pink House (Government House). Old San Telmo, residence of the porteña aristocracy until the turn off the century, the colors of La Boca , picturesque quarter of Italian immigrants, and the area of the port round off this excursion. In the evening Dinner and Tango Show at El Café de los Angelitos.


DAY 7 – Buenos Aires

After breakfast, transfer to international.






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