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16 Day itinerary in Argentina, South America

The best of Argentina

The best trip in Argentina visiting the main destinations. In this 16 day tour in Argentina you will discovery the most amazing destination of Argentina. You travel from the Jungle and north of Argentina to El Calafate and its Perito Moreno Glacier and Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. O... Read More

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Overview

Physical Difficulty

Easy
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Recommended Age

Everyone

Operated in

English, Spanish

GUIDANCE

On Some Day Trips

starting point

Buenos Aires

trip type

Private

trip attributes

Rural home stays

Historic & cultural landmarks

Classic Sights

Start

Night

End

Highlights

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Visit the most beatiful destinations that Argentina has to offer

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From North to South, marvel yourself with landscapes that you never saw before

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Learn about the argentinian culture and gastronomy

4

You can add optional tours in all destinations for a supplement

Itinerary

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Day 1

place Arrival Buenos Aires

Welcome to Buenos Aires! We will pick you up at Buenos Aires Airport and then transfer to the hotel in the city center. The rest of the day is at leisure to visit the city by your own.

We recommend to make a stop at one of the most emblematic cafes here in Buenos Aires: Cafe Tortoni with its french-style, opened in 1858.

Accommodation in Buenos Aires - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: None

Optional Excursion Recommended: "The Argentine Experience", Dinner Experience 

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Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: CARLES Hotel Buenos Aires
  • Superior Option: Nuss Buenos Aires Soho
  • standard accommodation: CARLES Hotel Buenos Aires
  • superior accommodation: Nuss Buenos Aires Soho
Day 2

place Sightseeing in Buenos Aires – Tango Show

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

In three fun-filled and exciting hours (including pick-up and drop-off times) our team of reliable and professional drivers and very passionate, attentive, informative, knowledgeable, and helpful tour guides with outstanding English skills will tour you in a small group of no more than 12 guests around Buenos Aires city, bringing it to life with their live commentary full of background information, facts and insights that you will not be able to find in any book or travel guide.

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.

We highly recommend doing 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. 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.

Accommodation in Buenos Aires - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: CARLES Hotel Buenos Aires
  • Superior Option: Nuss Buenos Aires Soho
Day 3

place Buenos Aires

The day is free to do any of the optional excursions that Buenos Aires has to offer us. 

Accommodation in Buenos Aires - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast

Optional Excursion Recommended: Full Day Ranch San Antonio de Areco 

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: CARLES Hotel Buenos Aires
  • superior accommodation: Nuss Buenos Aires Soho
Day 4

place Buenos Aires – Iguazú – Visit Brazilian Side of the fall

At the indicated time we transfer to Buenos Aires airport to take our flight to our next destination: Iguazu. Upon arrival at Iguazu Airport (IGR) we transfer to the hotel.

Then we will do the excursion through the Brazilian Falls, visiting a traditional footbridge with wonderful panoramic views. The extension of the walkways is 1,200 meters from where you get a spectacular panoramic view of the 275 falls that make up the Iguazu Falls, of which the most important on the Brazilian side are 4: Floriano, Deodoro, Benjamin Constant and Salto Unión or Garganta of the Devil. After the tour, you have access to the panoramic elevator that allows you to reach the bus that will leave us again at the access portal. Then we go back to our hotel in the Argentinian Side. 

Accommodation in Iguazú - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast

Optional Excursion Recommended: "Bird Park" 

Domestic Flight from Buenos Aires to Iguazu is not included


Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: Guaminí Misión hotel
  • superior accommodation: Botanica The House Experience
Day 5

place Visit Argentinian Side of the Falls

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. 

Accommodation in Iguazu - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast

Optional Excursion Recommended: "The Great Adventure" - Safari Boat Trip 

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: Guaminí Misión hotel
  • superior accommodation: Botanica The House Experience
Day 6

place Puerto Iguazú - Salta

At the indicated time we transfer to Puerto Iguazu Airport to take our flight to our next destination: Salta, in the north region of Argentina.
Upon arrival we transfer to our accommodation. The rest of the day is at leisure to visit the city on our own. We recommend to visit Cerro San Bernardo, which has amazing views of Salta´s city.
Accommodation in Salta - Double / Single Base
Included Meals: Breakfast

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: Hotel del Antiguo Convento
  • superior accommodation: Villa Vicuña Hotel Boutique
Day 7

place Salta - Salinas Grandes - Purmamarca

Early, after breakfast we start our day of traveling through incredible landscapes. We make a parallel route of the Train of the Clouds railway by Quebrada del Toro. Then we continue, starting the ascent until reaching 4080 meters above sea level and get to San Antonio de los Cobres. We make a break for lunch and enjoy some of the typical meals offered in the village. Back in the vehicle, we cross route 40 until we reach Salinas Grandes, right on the border between Salta and Jujuy. Then we start the descent by Cuesta de Lipán where condors are usually seen. We arrive at Purmamarca town and its Hill of Seven Colors. We continue our trip to Tilcara, where we spend the night.
Accommodation in Purmamarca - Double or Single Base
Included Meals: Breakfast

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: Hosteria del Amauta
  • superior accommodation: Casa de Adobe Hotel
Day 8

place Purmamarca

After breakfast the rest of the day is at leisure to visit Purmamarca on our own.

Accommodation in Purmamarca - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: Hosteria del Amauta
  • superior accommodation: Casa de Adobe Hotel
Day 9

place Quebrada de Humahuaca - Salta

Leaving in the morning, we will visit Unesco World Heritage Quebrada de Humahuaca. We visit Purmamarca and its colorful “Seven Colours Hill”. Then, we enter the Quebrada
de Humahuaca, passing through the Posta de Hornillos, continuing towards the town of Tilcara. We continue to Huacalera, passing through the Tropic of Capricorn, from where you can see the colors of the hill called “Pollera de la Colla”. We visit the mystical Church of Uquía, where the paintings of the Arcabuceros Angels (important vestige in the area of the Cuzqueña school) are located. Then we arrive in Humahuaca and admire its important Cathedral and the Independence Monument (El Indio) by the sculptor Soto Avendaño. After lunch we return to observe “Paleta del Pintor” mountain range that frames the town of Maimara from the route. And at the end of the afternoon, we arrived in the city of Salta.
Accommodation in Salta - Double or Single Base
Included Meals: Breakfast

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: Hotel del Antiguo Convento
  • superior accommodation: Villa Vicuña Hotel Boutique
Day 10

place Salta

Free day in Salta to do any of the optional tours or to visit the city on our own. 

Accommodatio in Salta - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast 

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: Hotel del Antiguo Convento
  • superior accommodation: Villa Vicuña Hotel Boutique
Day 11

place Salta - El Calafate

At the indicated time we transfer to Salta Airport to take our flight to the land of glaciers: El Calafate. Upon arrival a transfer will be waiting for us to take us to our acommodation.

Accommodation in El Calafate - Double or Single Base

Meals Included: Breakfast

Optional Excursion Recommended: Nativo Experience with Lunch or Dinner

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: Las Dunas
  • superior accommodation: La Cantera Hotel Boutique Calafate
Day 12

place Perito Moreno Glacier with Safari Nautico Boat Trip

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.

Accommodation in El Calafate - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch

Optional Supplement Recommended: Minitrekking - Ice Trek on Perito Moreno Glacier 

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Snacks

Accommodation:

  • Standard Category: Las Dunas
  • Superior Category: La Cantera Hotel Boutique Calafate
Day 13

place El Calafate

Free day at El Calafate to do any of the optional tours that El Calafate has to offer us.

Accommodation El Calafate - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast

Optional Excursion Recommended: "Full Day El Chalten"

Optional Excursion Recommended: "Full Day Ranch at Nibepo Aike"

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: Las Dunas
  • superior accommodation: La Cantera Hotel Boutique Calafate
Day 14

place El Calafate - Ushuaia - Beagle Channel Baot Trip

At the indicated time we transfer to El Calafate Airport to take our flight to our next destination: Ushuaia. Upon arrival we transfer from Ushuaia Airport to the Hotel in the city center.
In the afternoon we go the pier from where we depart from the local seaport toward Alicia Island, where we will find a colony of South American sea lions. Then we sail to Bird Island to watch king shags and imperial shags living close to their nests, and from spring through fall we can even find their breeds. Again, we head east towards another small island that, depending on the season, we can view South American fur seals. Very close to this island is Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, an authentic symbol of Ushuaia, built in 1919. From there we have a view of the island where rock shags live. On our way back to Ushuaia, we disembark at Bridges Island to walk along a path for the interpretation of wildlife, while listening to the history of the native inhabitants, the Yamanas. On this island, we can find the largest Yamana's "concheros" (shelly deposits) of the region. As this is the largest island, we reach the highest panoramic point from which we can enjoy amazing views of the Beagle Channel with the town of Ushuaia in the distance. Then we go back to our hotel.
Accommodation in Ushuaia - Double or Single Base
Included Meals: Breakfast

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • standard accommodation: Patagonia Jarke
  • superior accommodation: Albatros Hotel
Day 15

place 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. Once we enter the park we continue with 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. 

Then we go back to our accommodation in Ushuaia. 

Accommodation in Ushuaia - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast

Optional Supplement Recommened: Ticket to End of the World Train  

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Standard Option: Patagonia Jarke
  • Superior Option: Albatros Hotel
  • standard accommodation: Patagonia Jarke
  • superior accommodation: Albatros Hotel
Day 16

place Departure Ushuaia

At the indicated time we transfer to Ushuaia´s Airport where our services end. 

Included Meals: Breakfast

Meals: Breakfast

What’s Included

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  • Las Dunas
  • CARLES Hotel Buenos Aires
  • Guaminí Misión hotel
  • Hotel del Antiguo Convento
  • Hosteria del Amauta
  • Patagonia Jarke
  • Nuss Buenos Aires Soho
  • Botanica The House Experience
  • Villa Vicuña Hotel Boutique
  • Casa de Adobe Hotel
  • La Cantera Hotel Boutique Calafate
  • Albatros Hotel

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  • Breakfast (15)
  • Dinner (1)
  • Snacks (1)

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