MAY 27: DEPART MIAMI
Welcome aboard your Argentine Airlines non stop evening flight to Buenos Aires.
MAY 28: BUENOS AIRES /CALAFATE
Upon your early morning arrival in Buenos Aires assistance and transfer from the International Ezeiza airport to the domestic terminal for your connection to El Calafate, located on the shores of Lago Argentino, a region of snowy mountains, blue glaciers, beech forests, and few people in Los Glaciares National Park. Dinner at your hotel.
HOTEL POSADA LOS ALAMOS (D)
MAY 29: PERITO MORENO GLACIER & NAUTICAL SAFARI
Breakfast. Visit to the Perito Moreno Glacier.
A massive stream of ice and almost surreal experience, with its towers of ice exploding in mid-air and falling to the lake in multiple icebergs. Enjoy the excursion to the glacier, one of the few in the world still actually growing. Your outing will include a boat approach that will take you close enough to the glacier to listen to the constant groan of its crackling ice.
This park has been declared as Mankind Heritage by UNESCO. Those glaciers that named it (about 47) show us a 10 thousand-year-old world: cold and wild. The most famous one is Perito Moreno Glacier in the southwestern end of Argentino Lake at 80 km away from El Calafate. This glacier is so-called due to a great Argentinian explorer from last century and is one of the few glaciers that is still moving in the world. That is why it has become one of the most spectacular natural shows in South America. From time to time its 60-m-high snout releases some ice walls as huge as buildings that fall into Rico Bend or Canal de los Témpanos (Ice floes Channel) and then they continue sailing along the channel to the main area of the lake. However, that is not all. The glacier, while moving forward, comes closer to the Magallanes Peninsula, in the opposite lake bank as well as footbridge and viewpoint area. This cycle takes from 4 to 6 years and it eventually separates the lake into two areas. Rico Bend is dammed up and it increases about 35 m over its average level. Its water slowly pierces its way through the glacier snout until it makes it fall down. This show is breathtaking. Water becomes into terrific waves so the whole process restarts again.
Safari Nautical
Complementary navigation of the Perito Moreno Glacier excursion. We will sail up to the southern end of the Témpanos Channel, then the boat gets near the glacier wall skirting it, allowing us to observe the icefalls that regularly take place.
HOTEL POSADA LOS ALAMOS (B)
MAY 30: UPSALA & ONELLI GLACIERS
Breakfast. Today we will leave from El Calafate and after traveling 50 km by bus, we arrive to Puerto de la Cruz, in Punta Bandera, where the boats are waiting for the visitors to depart at 9:00 am. After navigating 1:45 hours the boat will enter Canal de los Témpanos (Icebergs Channel), where we will be able to admire the magnificent view of the icebergs that fall off the glacier while at the back of the channel, appears the incredible view of the Upsala Glacier. The boat will get near to admire its magnificent ice walls and then continue to Onelli Bay. There, we will walk 800 meters through the forest and after reaching the Onelli lake, we will look at the glaciers Onelli, Agassiz and Bolado that flow into the lake. Sailing back, we will make a stop at the Spegazzini glacier, this glacier of incredible beauty, has the highest wall on the lake. We will then continue to the port and then to Calafate by land.
Lunch option at Onelli Bay or you can carry your own lunch.
HOTEL POSADA LOS ALAMOS (B,LD)
MAY 31: EL CALAFATE / BUENOS AIRES
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport for your flight to Buenos Aires. Hotel site inspections en route. Upon arrival assistance and trsnfer to your hotel in Buenos Aires
HOTEL POSADA LOS ALAMOS (B,L)
JUNE 1: BUENOS AIRES
Breakfast.
Today you'll enjoy a city tour (lunch included) of one of the biggest urban concentrations in the Southern Hemisphere. This tour starts at the historical May Square (Plaza de Mayo) surrounded by the Government House (Pink House), the Metropolitan Cathedral and the ancient City-Hall, seat of the former Spanish Viceroys. Continuation along May Avenue, of strong Spanish influence till you get to Congress Square facing the National Parliament. Drive along Callao Street till the intersection with Corrientes Avenue -the never-sleeping avenue- up to the most emblematic symbol of Buenos Aires: the Obelisk, passing by one of the widest avenues in the world, namely, 9 of July Boulevard as well as the famous Colon Opera House. Heading north-eastwards, you will then reach the most fashionable districts of the city: Recoleta, with a scent o f French charm and the spacious and oxygenating Palermo Parks for a relaxing stroll. Your tour will also include the bohemian and colorful neighborhood of La Boca -of Italian immigrants- and the elegant district of Recoleta, with a visit to its artistic cemetery, where Evita Peron´s tomb is, among others of prominent local characters.
End your day with a Tango dinner and show.
HOTEL PESTANA (B,L,D)
JUNE 2: BUENOS AIRES
Breakfast. Today is Fiesta Gaucha. This excursion invites you to admire traditional dances, the typical local activities and enjoy Argentine songs and dishes. Apart from the quincho, where we will have lunch, you can visit the original house of the estancia, which is now a gaucho museum. The excursion begins with guests greeted upon arrival with empanadas and wine, free time for horse and carriage riding, visiting the Museum. We will later have a delicious asado, (a barbecue) with salads and beverages. After lunch, enjoy a show of traditional folk songs and dances followed by coffee and pastelitos (local pastries). Afterwards, there will be a demonstration of tropilla and carrera de sortijas (traditional horse races).
HOTEL PESTANA (B,L)
JUNE 3: BUENOS AIRES
Breakfast followed by hotel sites inspections.
Dinner at the hotel (beverages are not included)
HOTEL PESTANA (B,L,D)
JUNE 4: BUENOS AIRES
Day at leisure to enjoy the city on your own until your evening transfer to the airport for your return flight to Miami via Argentine Airlines. (B)
RATE PER PERSON BASED ON DOUBLE OCCUPANCY:
$1,090 Plus US International departure taxes
