9-Days Argentina Tour: Buenos Aires,  El Calafate & Ushuaia

Day 1 Arrival in Buenos Aires - Argentine Dinner Experience

A transfer will take you to your hotel in the city center. The rest of the day is at your leisure to enjoy this incredible South American capital, known for its French-style cafés, open green spaces, and Italian-inspired ice cream.

At night, a transfer will pick us up for a truly unique dinner experience, where we’ll dive into Argentine culture, taste fantastic local dishes, sip on exceptional wines, and mingle with fellow travelers in a relaxed and friendly setting.

Argentine cuisine is a celebration of flavor—where tradition, passion, and regional ingredients come together in every bite. After dinner, we return to our hotel.

Lodging in Buenos Aires - Double or Single Base 

Included meals: Dinner 

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Day 2 Buenos Aires - El Calafate

After breakfast, take the transfer to the airport. Upon arrival in El Calafate you will be transferred to your hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure to visit the city on our own. 

Lodging in El Calafate - Double or Single Base 

Included meals: Breakfast

Domestic Flight from Buenos Aires (AEP / EZE) to El Calafate (FTE) is not included 

Optional Excursion Recommended: Nativo Experience with Dinner 

It is an excursion in 4×4 along the coast of Lake Argentino. Ideal for the day of arrival or departure, it has an anthropological approach, making a tour at the time about the passing of man in these lands, rediscovering the stories of the first expeditions and daring that ventured into the unknown.

Between the cliffs and overlooking the Andes Mountains, the excursion focuses on the first contacts of those expeditionaries with the natives, and then enter the Tehuelche world.

On the banks of the lake are the caves where thousands of years ago that culture left its marks on the rock and that today induce us to its interpretation. Finally, the excursion culminates in another cave where lunch or dinner is included that will transport us to those remote years. 

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Day 3 Perito Moreno Glacier with Safari Náutico Boat Trip

Today we dedicate the day to one of the world’s most awe-inspiring natural wonders: the Perito Moreno Glacier. This glacier, classified as an ice field-type, flows down from the Southern Patagonian Icefield—an enormous mass of ice covering around 22,000 square kilometers, making it the third largest in the world after Antarctica and Greenland.

Thanks to rare and favorable local conditions, Perito Moreno is the only glacier on the planet that still advances and undergoes dramatic rupture cycles. The road takes us right to the glacier’s front, where you’ll be just meters away from its towering ice wall. The deep rumbles of falling ice, the thunderous crashes as massive chunks break off into the lake, and the vibrant blues of the ice create an unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Later, we head to Bajo de las Sombras port, where we board a catamaran and navigate across Lago Rico. From the water, you'll enjoy a privileged view of the glacier’s immense face and floating icebergs—an even more striking perspective of this natural wonder.

After this unforgettable day, we return to our accommodation in El Calafate.

Lodging in El Calafate - Double or Single Base

Included meals: Breakfast

Optional Supplement Recommended: Minitrekking

Optional Excursion Recommended: Dinner Experience at Rancho a parte

Rancho Aparte experience will allow you to savor home-cooked meal in a warm and friendly atmosphere. 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. There are 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.

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Day 4 El Calafate - Ushuaia

According to your flight schedule, you will be picked up at your hotel to go to the airport. Upon arrival in Ushuaia you will be transferred to your hotel. The rest of the day is free to explore this charming city.

Lodging in Ushuaia - Double or Single Base

Included meals: Breakfast

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

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Day 5 Tierra del Fuego National Park - Beagle Channel Boat Trip

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. Then we will return to our accommodation in Uhsuaia. 

In the afternoon 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 

Optional Excursion Recommended: Tierra del Fuego National Park 

In the morning around 08:30 we will pick you up at the hotel, from where we will go to the Tierra del Fuego National Park, which is located 12 km from the center of the city of Ushuaia. Before entering the National Park, we will stop at the End of the World train station (optional) where passengers who wish may choose to take the mythical train (about 60 minutes ride) that ends within the National Park. Those who do not make the journey on the train can enjoy a small walk in the Fuegian forest (in winter the small walk could be aborted according to weather conditions).

Once the train journey is over, the group will meet again inside the Park with the vehicle and guide to continue with the tour to Ensenada, a bay that combines the Andes, the sub-Antarctic forest and sea in the same place defining an ecosystem unique from Argentina. In this area of the park, native people used to live and their archaeological remains. There is also the last post office in America, where it is sometimes open and we can send postcards to anywhere in the world. (Ensenada bay is closed in winter)

We will continue to other panoramic points to make small tours to appreciate the flora and fauna that surprises us with its beauty: Acigami Glacier Lake (Roca) shared with Chile, Lapataia Bay, where the sign indicating that we have reached the end of the Pan American route

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Day 6 Ushuaia - Buenos Aires

After breakfast say goodbye to Ushuaia. According to your flight schedule, you will be picked up at your hotel to go to the airport. Upon arrival in Buenos Aires you will be transferred to your hotel. 

Lodging in Buenos Aires - Double or single room.

Included meals: Breakfast

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

Optional Excursion Recommended: Dinner Tango Show 

Experience a tango night 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, La Ventana is one of the most complete shows Buenos Aires

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Day 7 Sightseeing in Buenos Aires

Today you will 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 neighborhood, and many other attractions.

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. The afternoon is at leisure.  

Lodging in Buenos Aires - Double or single room.

Included meals: Breakfast

Optional Lunch at a Typical Bodegon 

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Day 8 Buenos Aires

We are sure you need to visit the city on your own, to check out some places you visited yesterday during the city tour, or places you have read or watched videos of. This day is free to indulge yourself!. Go shopping, or eat at the best restaurants in the city!

Lodging in Buenos Aires - Double or single room.

Included meals: Breakfast

Optional Excursion Recommended: Full Day Ranch San Antonio de Areco with Lunch 

A unique visit to San Antonio de Areco, cradle of Argentinian tradition. We will live an unforgettable experience in a classic stay Argentinian Creole style. We will spend a full field day of folklore and tradition.

We will travel to another time enjoying demonstrations uses and customs, skills and Creole sports.

We will spend a field day unforgettable, full of folklore and tradition: Reception with cheeses, empanadas and Argentine wines. Lunch, Creole barbecue in the open air.

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Day 9 Departure Buenos Aires

After breakfast, at the indicated time, transfer to the airport. End of our services. 

Included meals: breakfast.

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INCLUDED SERVICES

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Accommodation

Standard Accommodation 

*4 night´s accommodation in Buenos Aires, Hotel Carles (or similar), double or single room. 

*2 night´s accommodation in El Calafate, Hotel Sierra Nevada (or similar), double or single room.

*2 night´s accommodation in Ushuaia, Hotel Canal Beagle (or similar), double or single room.

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Superior Accommodation 

*4 night´s accommodation in Buenos Aires, Hotel Nuss (or similar), double or single room. 

*2 night´s accommodation in El Calafate, Hotel Mirador del Lago (or similar), double or single room.

*2 night´s accommodation in Ushuaia, Hotel Albatros (or similar), double or single room.

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Meals

8 Breakfasts, 1 Dinner 

Vegetarian and vegan options are available. Please let us know in advance. 

 

This tour offers Vegetarian and Vegan food options on request. Simply let us  know the food option that you prefer.

 

Additional Services

- Private transfers from / to the airport in all destinations

-  The Argentine Dinner Experience with transfers from / to the hotel 

- Full Day Tour Perito Moreno Glacier with Spanish / English Speaking Guide 

- Safari Nautico Boat Trip

- Entrance Fee to Los Glaciares National Park

- Half Day Tour Tierra del Fuego National Park with Spanish / English Speaking Guide 

- Ticket Train of the End of the End of the World

- Entrance Fee Tierra del Fuego National Park 

- Beagle Channel Boat Trip (Small Boat) 

- Sightseeing in Buenos Aires, 3 Hours Spanish / English Speaking Guide 

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NON INCLUDED SERVICES

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Flights

Flights are not included. 

You need to buy the following domestic flights for this tour:

*Buenos Aires to El Calafate on day 2 of the itinerary

*El Calafate to Ushuaia on day 4 of the itinerary

*Ushuaia to Buenos Aires on day 6 of the itinerary

We can help you with all this. Do not hesitate in sending us a question.

 

Additional Services

* Medical / Life insurance

* Drinks / Beverages 

* Tips

* Optional Excursions 

* Flights and Airport taxes 

*Services not shown in the itienrary