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Day 1 Arrive Buenos Aires

Day 2 Explore Buenos Aires (B,D)

Tour the exciting and seductive city of Buenos Aires! This tour includes a bilingual tour guide and visits to typical neighborhoods like La Boca, Palermo, Recoleta, and the Colon Theater, the National Congress and the Presidential Palace. Experience the highlights of Buenos Aires, and appreciate this great city. It is hard to imagine a visit to Buenos Aires without attending a tango show. At Esquina Carlos Gardel, we will experience this intimate dance that unifies the city and its people together in a passionate embrace. The tango expresses the heart and the spirit of Argentina. Enjoy a dinner with wine this evening. The transfers to/from the tango show are included.

Day 3 Fly Ushuaia (B)

Day 4 Beagle Channel and Gable Island (B,L)

This morning you cross the green central valley of Tierra del Fuego to reach Harberton Farm, a private ranch built by the first British missionaries to reach the area. After a short visit you'll board a zodiac and wind through the Beagle Channel to Gable Island, part of the Harberton estate. You'll enjoy a picnic lunch in an old, rustic shelter before embarking on a 3 hour hike around the island. Your path will lead to many amazing vantage points of the Beagle Channel, and if the weather cooperates you might even glimpse the distant town of Puerto Willams across the Chilean border. Returning to the zodiac, you resume your navigation to the penguin rookery on Martillo Island. The location of the island makes it a birdwatcher's paradise; you'll be on the lookout for petrels, skuas, cormorants, seagulls, and albatross. You depart for Harberton and begin the return trip to Ushuaia.

Day 5 Tierra del Fuego National Park (B,L)

Day 6 El Calafate (B,D)

Day 7 Perito Moreno Glacier Walk (B,L,D)

Today you drive into Parque Nacional Los Glaciares for views of the stunning Perito Moreno Glacier. This huge advancing glacier is more than 3 miles wide at its front and over 20 stories high. You'll take a boat across Lago Argentino and pass the massive front wall of blue ice, all the while watching for icebergs. After landing on a small beach you start hiking through the beech forest to the icepack of the glacier and have the opportunity to walk on the glacier with crampons. You'll eat your lunch sitting on the lateral moraine of the glacier, where you can absorb the magnificence of the glacier's anatomy and listen to its thunderous concerto of groaning and cracking ice dropping into the lake below. Tonight, sample some of El Calafate's Patagonian nightlife!

Day 8 Fly Buenos Aires/Return Home (B)

US$ 1865
8 Days starting and ending in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sat-Sat.
Tour Code: AWA8
Single Supplement: US$480

Accommodations: 5 nights comfortable hotels, 2 nights comfortable lodges.

Food Includes: All meals as indicated (B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner); most of our hotels offer free continental breakfast.

Transportation: local flights, buses, zodiacs, your own feet!

Note: Flights Buenos Aires-Ushuaia-El Calafate-Buenos Aires not included. Please add US $565/person (flight cost subject to change and based on specific dates of travel).

Group & Staff: Min 2, Max 12; Patagonian guide and crew throughout.

Personal Budgeting: Allow US$140 for meals not included, US$18 international airport departure tax, US$5 local airport taxes, US$60 optional excursions, $17 entrance fee for the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares

Pre & Post Tour Accommodations: Buenos Aires: Share US$75 pp, Single US$150

Is it for Me? A Patagonia tour wonderfully suited for those looking to explore at a relaxed - yet active - pace. Emphasis is on the wildlife and landscape of amazing Patagonia!

Arrival / Departure Transfers: 1 person US$50 each
2 or more people US$25 /person

Prices are based on a 3% cash discount