The three places nobody wants to miss, in one trip: the tango and the cafés of Buenos Aires, the Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia and both sides of the Iguazú Falls. Flights, hotels, transfers and guided tours included.
1st Day — arrival in Buenos Aires. A representative from 01argentina will meet you at the airport in Buenos Aires and transfer you to your hotel. You will have the rest of the day free to explore or relax. In the evening, you will enjoy dinner and a tango show at the most traditional and spectacular tango house in Buenos Aires, where singing, dancing and a spectacular meal mix within the walls of a classy, seductively beautiful lounge.
2nd Day — Buenos Aires. You will take the half day city tour through Buenos Aires in the morning, a time that will allow you to discover a city with strong cultural contrasts, exemplified by the varied architecture present in historical buildings, monuments, museums, theatres and open areas. In the afternoon you will board a cruise to view the riverfront homes and admire the scenery on the Tigre Delta of the Paraná: an exotic subtropical forest formed by thousands of small islands that can only be reached by water.
3rd Day — Buenos Aires to El Calafate. You will begin your tour to El Calafate taking off from Buenos Aires airport. Once you land in El Calafate a tourist guide from 01argentina will be waiting for you with a sign with your last name, to transfer you to your hotel, where you can check in and enjoy free time in the afternoon.
4th Day — Perito Moreno Glacier and Nautical Safari. Breakfast at the hotel and departure for the full day tour. You will visit one of the greatest marvels of the world: the Perito Moreno Glacier, declared a World Heritage site. You begin at the floating quay of the southern branch of Lago Argentino, riding across the Ice Floe's Canal up to the front of the glacier to see its typical ice slides. Then you come across the footbridges, which are very near to the ice wall. There will be enough time to enjoy the spectacle and to witness the famous ice detachment phenomena, hearing the hollow sounds of ice falling and becoming smaller floating glaciers. There are some experiences that leave marks in our lives, and watching the Perito Moreno is definitely one of them.
5th Day — sailing among the icebergs. Breakfast, and then we pick you up for the full day tour. You head to Punta Bandera pier to take a catamaran on Lago Argentino. First to the northern part of the lake, where you can observe icebergs floating adrift, and then to the Upsala Glacier, with a spectacular ice barrier whose area of 800 square kilometres equals four times the city of Buenos Aires. After passing the front wall of this glacier the ride continues to the highest glacier in the national park, the Spegazzini, where you can also observe the Seco glacier. On the way back you will be able to see Boca del Diablo. Note: the tour can be modified depending on weather conditions and the decision of the captain of the vessel.
6th Day — El Calafate to Buenos Aires. Breakfast and transfer to the airport. Return to Buenos Aires and check in at your hotel. You will have the rest of the day free to explore or relax.
7th Day — Gaucho day in the countryside. Escape the bustling streets of Buenos Aires and enjoy a full day of leisure in the Buenos Aires countryside. You will experience a Gaucho Party, including the typical barbecue, or asado, in the Argentine pampas. Discover the traditional way of life with a horseback ride, a ranch tour, an impressive horsemanship show by the gallant gauchos and a performance of folk song and dance. The excursion runs from approximately 10 am to 6 pm.
8th Day — Buenos Aires to Iguazú. The tour to Iguazú starts departing from the airport in Buenos Aires. Once you arrive our tour guide will be waiting to transfer you to your hotel, and will give you the information for all the exact pick-up times during your stay. You will check in and have free time in the afternoon for exploring the town on your own, for personal activities, or just for relaxing with the hotel facilities such as the swimming pool.
9th Day — the Argentine side. After breakfast you will leave for a full day excursion to the Argentine side of the Iguazú Falls. You will be guided around several paths inside the National Park to witness the incredible view of more than 200 falls, visiting the Green Way, the Upper and Lower Catwalks and the Devil's Throat paths using the forest train. The Great Adventure boat ride is an optional tour inside the park which takes you around the falls — the boat even remains underneath an Iguazú fall. Around 5 pm you will return to the hotel in Puerto Iguazú.
10th Day — the Brazilian side, and back to Buenos Aires. After breakfast we pick you up at your hotel to take you to the Brazilian Iguazú Falls National Park, declared a World Natural Heritage site for being a natural reserve of paramount importance in South America. The main attraction is the contact with the great deal of fauna that can be seen through the light that enters the green roof of the rainforest, as well as the world famous waterfalls that form a circle of 2,700 m of width around the four falls. Torrents of water, whose roar can be heard for miles, plunge some 80 metres down. The panoramic view is unbeatable, since the walkway circuit is directly in front of the waterfalls. At the end of this half day tour you return to the hotel and, at the scheduled time, transfer from hotel to airport and fly back to Buenos Aires.
11th Day — departure. Breakfast. Check-out at noon. Transfer to the international airport at the scheduled time. End of our services.
This trip can be tailor-made to suit your dates, your interests and your budget.
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Three more nights and one more flight take you to Tierra del Fuego: the Beagle Channel, the Les Eclaireurs lighthouse and a national park at the end of the world. If you have two full weeks, that is the complete version of this journey.
It comes down to how many days you have. This eleven-day trip covers the three destinations most first-time visitors come for: Buenos Aires, the Perito Moreno Glacier and Iguazú. The fourteen-day version keeps all of that and adds three nights in Ushuaia and Tierra del Fuego. If you have two full weeks, take the longer one — getting to the end of the world is not something you do on a second trip. If you have around ten days, this is the better use of them.
Yes, all four internal flights: Buenos Aires → El Calafate → Buenos Aires → Iguazú → Buenos Aires. Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world, and these distances are not drivable — Iguazú alone is more than 1,300 km from Buenos Aires. The only thing not included is the transfer at the Buenos Aires domestic airport for those legs.
Because there is no direct flight between El Calafate and Puerto Iguazú — they are at opposite ends of the country. Rather than waste those days in transit we use them: the gaucho day in the Pampas sits between the two legs, and you get a second chance at the city. It is the reason the itinerary includes five nights in Buenos Aires.
They are two different glaciers and two different boats. Day 4 takes you to the Perito Moreno, with the navigation to its front wall and the boardwalks facing the ice. Day 5 is a full day navigation, a longer boat trip north across Lago Argentino to the Upsala and Spegazzini glaciers, which you can only reach by water. Most people expect to be bored by the second and end up preferring it.
No. This itinerary enters three national parks — Los Glaciares, Iguazú on the Argentine side and Iguazú on the Brazilian side — and the fees are paid on site, as with every operator. We tell you the current amounts when we quote, so you can budget for them properly.
The Brazilian side is a half day excursion and you cross an international border to reach it, so bring your passport. Entry requirements for Brazil depend on your nationality and they do change, so check with the Brazilian consulate for your country before you travel. Tell us your nationality when you write and we will flag anything we know of.
As described it is a group service: you share the guide and the vehicle with other travellers, which is what keeps a multi-destination itinerary affordable. We can also quote it fully private, with your own guide and driver in each city. Ask for both and compare — the difference is often smaller than people expect.
October to April is when the whole itinerary works at its best, because Patagonia is open and warm enough. December to February is high summer — the busiest and the one to book earliest. Iguazú is subtropical and works all year, though it is hot and humid in January. Our own favourite months are March, April and October: fewer people, everything still running.
You will go from subtropical Iguazú, hot and humid, to Patagonia, where the wind is the constant rather than the temperature. Pack layers, a windproof and waterproof jacket, comfortable walking shoes, sunglasses, high-factor sunscreen and insect repellent for Iguazú. A small bag for the internal flights helps — there are luggage limits.
Yes. This is a starting point, not a fixed menu. You can add nights anywhere, swap the gaucho day for something else, add the Great Adventure boat ride at Iguazú, add Ushuaia or Bariloche, or upgrade the hotels from comfortable to five star. Tell us what you have in mind and we rebuild it around you.
Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world, and it does not have one landscape but several that barely acknowledge each other. This is the itinerary we send most often to someone writing to us for the first time, because it covers the three that nobody wants to miss — and the internal flights are what make it possible in eleven days.
Buenos Aires is a European capital that eats late and dances tango, with the Tigre Delta an hour away and the cattle country of the Pampas an hour in the other direction. El Calafate is the gateway to Los Glaciares National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, where the Perito Moreno drops ice the size of buildings into a lake. And Iguazú, some 3,000 km north, is subtropical jungle and hundreds of waterfalls shared with Brazil — which is why we give you both sides.
We include the four internal flights, ten nights with breakfast, every transfer and the guided excursions in each destination. What we also give you is the order — which day goes where, so that nothing collides and no flight is wasted. Tell us your dates and how many of you there are, and we will come back within 24 hours with a free quote and an honest opinion if we think something should change.
