3 days and 2 Nights Best of Calafate from Buenos Aires

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
CALAFATE: Panoramic tour: The best balconies of Calafate 3.00 PM
4 stops
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El Calafate
Pick up Hotel for this tour 3.00 PM Enjoy aboard jeeps, a 35 km journey, while you observe with scheduled stops the majestic landscape of The Balcony of El Calafate, The Lago Argentino and The Andes. From the balcony of El Calafate an imposing natural viewpoint, you can enjoy a panoramic view of El Calafate and the central part of Lake Argentino. The tour will offer views of the Andes Mountains and glacier accumulation zone, towards the Boca del Diablo and if it is clear we can observe the Fitz Roy and Torre mountains in El Chaltén. In addition, we will have the opportunity to see the flight of Condors
3 hours • Admission ticket free
2
Lugar donde se realizan todos los tours
Admission ticket free
3
Pass in the acuatic tours
Admission ticket free
4
Lago Argentino
Pass in the acuatic tours
Admission ticket free
Day 2
Mini-trekking: includes walkways - transfers in / out hotel • Pickup at Hotel -Durantion: 10 hours -
5 stops
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Part of the mini treckking tour: The Onelli Glacier is located inside the Glacier National Park and empties into the Onelli Lagoon, where two more glaciers also flow into it.
6
Lago Argentino
Part of the 3 days tour: Lake Argentino is the largest in the Argentine Republic and the third in South America
Admission ticket free
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Los Glaciares National Park is located in the southern Andes of southwestern Argentina, near the Chilean border. Its numerous glaciers include Perito Moreno, famous for the spectacular ice cascades on its front wall, which end at Lake Argentino.
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Perito Moreno Glacier
The tour begins with the pick-up from the meeting point agreed in El Calafate. In our comfortable buses, we will give information about the place, the glacier and the tour through audio guides available in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Once in the “Bajo las Sombras” port (Ruta 11, km 70.9) you board a ship to cross the Lago Rico to arrive at the opposite shore after a 20-minute trip approximately in front of the southern wall of the Perito Moreno Glacier. When you get ashore, and after passing by the shelter, the mountain guides organize small groups of up to 20 people. Then, a short 20-minute walk begins with a talk about glaciology along the shore of the lake towards the glacier. Once on the ice, the guides put on each participant a pair of crampons and give them instructions on how they should walk on the ice. In the about 1:30 hour walk on the glacier, you will be able to appreciate a wide variety of ice formations as well as cracks, seracs, glacier mills and small ponds. The trekking difficulty is moderate. The ice surface over which you walk is irregular, but firm and safe. You will get information about flora and fauna and about the particular phenomenon that only takes place in the Perito Moreno Glacier and that eventually produces its rupture. After the trekking, a stroll through the exuberant Magellanic forest brings you back to the shelter. The tour includes a guided visit to the walkways of Los Glaciares National Park 7km from the port. There, you will be able to enjoy the amazing panoramic landscape of the Glacier and to walk along some of the self guided trails. The Minitrekking is designed for people who enjoy nature, adventure and who want to live the experience of walking on the ice of the most beautiful Glacier of the world.
8 hours • Admission ticket not included
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Pass by without stopping
Admission ticket free
Day 3
Glaciers Navigation: Navegacion glaciares Gourmet
5 stops
10
El Calafate, llamado popularmente «Calafate», es una ciudad ubicada en la ribera meridional del lago Argentino, en la región de la Patagonia, en la provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina, a unos 80 km del glaciar Perito Moreno. Es la cabecera del departamento Lago Argentino.
5 hours • Admission ticket free
11
Los Glaciares National Park
EL CALAFATE, popularly called "Calafate", is a city located on the southern shore of Lake Argentino, in the Patagonia region, in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, about 80 km from the Perito Moreno glacier. It is the head of the Lago Argentino department. By 2012, El Calafate is one of the three main cities in the province of Santa Cruz, ranking third for its population, behind the cities of Río Gallegos and Caleta Olivia. It is located about 320 km northwest of the provincial capital, Río Gallegos. It owes its notoriety for being the gateway to the Los Glaciares national park, which has tourist attractions such as the Perito Moreno glacier, the Upsala glacier, and the Fitz Roy hill, among others, all typical of the eastern region of the Patagonian ice field. South and bordering the Torres del Paine National Park of Chile.
8 hours • Admission ticket free
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Lago Argentino
From the Hotel to Punta Bandera port, 50 km approx. from El Calafate, where we embark. Once on board we will sail through the North Arm of Lake Argentino until we reach the Upsala Channel, where we will find a spectacular Iceberg Barrier, and if the location of the icebergs allows us, we will be able to get near the glacier´s wall.
Admission ticket free
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Glaciar Spegazzini
Afterwards we will navigate the Spegazzini Channel, where we will observe the Seco Glacier to reach the front of the Spegazzini Glacier, the highest in the National Park, We continue sailling until the disembark point in front of Spegazzini Glacier, at the mountain shelter, to spend there one hour and a half.
2 hours • Admission ticket not included
14
Upsala Expediciones
From the Hotel to Punta Bandera port, 50 km approx. from El Calafate, where we embark. Once on board we will sail through the North Arm of Lake Argentino until we reach the Upsala Channel, where we will find a spectacular Iceberg Barrier, and if the location of the icebergs allows us, we will be able to get near the glacier´s wall.
Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Age allowed to make this tour: From 13 years of age and under 65 years of age.
• IMPORTANT: If you book the option without flights: this option does not include hotel. You will need to book hotel in Calafate on your own
• If you wish to have the 4 stars HOTEL in Calafate included, the transfers from your hotel in Buenos Aires to the Buenos Aires Airport in/out included ( in private service) , you must purchase the option WITH HOTEL AND flights
• CALAFATE: Panoramic tour: The best balconies of Calafate: Enjoy aboard jeeps, a 35 km journey, while you observe with scheduled stops the majestic landscape of The Balcony of El Calafate, The Lago Argentino and The Andes. From the balcony of El Calafate an imposing natural viewpoint, you can enjoy a panoramic view of El Calafate and the central part of Lake Argentino. The tour will offer views of the Andes Mountains and glacier accumulation zone, towards the Boca del Diablo and if it is clear we can observe the Fitz Roy and Torre mountains in El Chaltén. In addition, we will have the opportunity to see the flight of Condors.
• MINITREKKING DAY TOUR: After the disembarkation we access the refuge where the guides organize the groups that are composed each up to 20 people. Then we start a walk along the lake shore for approximately 20 minutes to the glacier. Upon reaching the edge of the ice the guides place the crampons to the participants, who receive instructions on how they should move on the ice. The tour on the glacier is done in about 2 hours, and during the course of it you can see a variety of ice formations such as cracks, seracs, sinkholes, small lagoons. The walk is moderate. The ice surface on which you walk is irregular, but firm and safe. Explanations will be received about the flora, fauna and general glaciology of the region as well as the particular phenomenon that occurs in the Perito Moreno glacier and eventually produces its rupture. At the end of the walk, you will return to the refuge through the exuberant Magellan forest, and then take the catamaran back to Puerto Bajo de Las Sombras.

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