Argentina Highlights - Buenos Aires, El Calafate & Iguazu

Bienvenidos & welcome

Upon arrival at EZEIZA International airport & after clearing the mandatory Argentina Immigration & Customs procedures you will be met by one of our professional English speaking guides & then by way of a private air-conditioned vehicle, transfer to your confirmed centrally located city hotel. 

Breakfast

This morning after breakfast you will be picked up from your hotel to embark on a 3 hour regular Buenos Aires historic city sightseeing excursion. Sense, feel & soak up the emotions & ambiance of South America’s most glittering capital city. Take in all the major plazas: Plaza San Martin, Plaza 25 de Mayo, Plaza Congreso & Plaza San Martin; traverse the major boulevards & avenues: Av. Corrientes, Av. Cordoba, Av. 9 de Julio, Av. Callao & Av Libertador; visit the historic districts of San Telmo, La Boca, Montserrat, Once, Recoleta, Puerto Madero & the elegant neighbourhoods´ of Palermo & Belgrano. You’ll see the historic civic buildings, fountains & monuments for which this city is standout: pause in Plaza 25 de Mayo at the Presidential Palace - Casa Rosada, the reverence within Buenos Aires Cathedral, the famous Cabildo & the iconic Obelisco, all the while gaining a knowledge & education through the descriptions & in-depth commentary provided by your local expert bi-lingual English speaking guide.  

At the conclusion of the morning’s historic sightseeing excursion you will be returned to a set arrival point.

The afternoon is free of any pre-arranged activity, therefore giving you free reign & your own timetable for the remainder of the day.

Breakfast & dinner

This is your chance to strike out on your own & explore Buenos Aires as today is free of any pre-organized activities, until this evening. After breakfast if you want to shop or just browse, then we suggest the many boutiques that are on both sides of Avenida Santa Fe, or down Calle Florida a famous pedestrian shopping street & Galeria Pacifico in the central city. Whatever you decide to do today, please be sure to be back at your hotel, dressed in smart casual attire in time to be picked up shortly before 8.00pm for an evening of traditional charm & romance. 

Tango is the trademark dance & rhythm of Argentina & there is no better place to be exposed to this sensational pulse than at a dinner & tango show, with professional tango musicians, singers & the best of tango dance couples.

Dinner includes appetizers, various choices of a main course, deserts, accompanied by with fine local red & white vintages of wine & soft drinks, then tea & coffee, should you wish. This is an evening that will captivate & live on with you as the essence of not only Tango, but Buenos Aires itself. It is likely you will not be returned to your city hotel until approaching midnight, where no doubt sleep will come easily.

Breakfast

This morning after breakfast & checking out of your hotel, you are being picked up & by way of an air-conditioned private vehicle, transferred to the Buenos Aires Jorge Newbery Aeroparque airport to check in there for a flight to El Calafate in the southern extremities of Patagonia. 

Upon arrival to El Calafate you will be met directly outside the baggage claim & in an air-conditioned private vehicle, transferred to your confirmed hotel.

Breakfast

This morning you will need to wake early & have breakfast as you will be picked up at the hotel to embark on a regular day excursion by coach out to the viewing platforms & wooden deck walkways in front of majestic Perito Moreno Glacier. Departing by road you will travel around Lake Argentino & Bahia Redonda. This region is home to a large variety of birds & in particular, black-necked swans, flamingos, wild ducks & coots. Yellow broom sedge (coiron) grasses dominate the open fields as you cross the Patagonian plains. Entering the National Park, the different types of trees: ñires, guindos & lengas are striking. Upon arrival at Glacier Perito Moreno the immensity of this awesome river of ice is evident. Perito Moreno Glacier is born high in the Andes cordillera & as a massive river of frozen ice, creaks & groans as it is slowly pushing forward on the journey down a valley some 50km to its terminal face,that sits almost the equivalent of a building 24 stories high, above a lagoon that has been made by the ice melt. You will have ample time to leisurely wander the marked wooden deck walkways & the viewing platforms that offer the most stunning views of one of the most magnificent glaciers on the planet.

An `optional` short cruise on the lagoon is available, but not included in the excursion, so that would need to be paid for on the day you are here separately at the kiosk. 

At the conclusion of the day, the excursion will retrace its journey of this morning & return guests to their El Calafate hotels.  

Breakfast

No activities are booked for today. We do however suggest that guests undertake one of the most spectacular nautical excursions in this area called “Glaciares Gourmet”.  You would have to pre-reserve this excursion & you can do so through Sundance Spirit’s office in El Calafate, or through the hotel concierge. In high season availability is limited by high demand, so we recommend you consider booking as far in advance as possible to avoid disappointment. For guests who do not wish to indulge in an outdoor activity, El Calafate township offers a good range of things to do & the many artisan boutique have wonderful handcrafted locally produced products that typify this region of Southern Patagonia.

Breakfast

This morning after breakfast & at a pre-arranged time, you will check out of your hotel & be picked up, to transfer out to the El Calafate airport in a private air-conditioned vehicle, there to check in for a flight via Buenos Aires, to Iguazu Falls. 

Upon arrival in Iguazu you will be met directly outside the baggage claim & by private air-conditioned vehicle transferred to the hotel. 

Breakfast

After breakfast this morning you will be picked up & by way of regular coach, driven to the Iguazu National Park Headquarters entrance, to there embark on full day regular excursion of the Argentine side of our planets most majestic waterfalls, accompanied by an English speaking bi-lingual guide.

Iguazu Falls is made up of more than 270 cataracts, spread around three large half-moon shaped valleys. There are two basic circuits, an upper & a lower walking trail The upper path leads to incredible panoramic views of the falls from an extensive steel walkway, also an unforgettable experience, & he lower trail leads down a series of steel stair cases & viewing platforms to the base of the San Martin cataract where the intense water volume releases a misty spray into the air. Then also as an included part of your Iguazu experience, the ´People Mover` narrow gauge train gives guests access along a track of some 3.5km, to the steel walkway that goes out across the mezzanine level of the river to the point where physically Argentina & Brazil’s international border is defined by the thunderous ´Garganta del Diablo` – the Devil’s Throat.

At the conclusion of your day’s activities here at Iguazu Falls, you will be returned to your hotel where the remainder of the evening is free of anything that has been pre-organized.

Breakfast

At a pre-arranged time that will be advised to you a private air-conditioned vehicle will collect you from the hotel & transfer you out to Iguazu airport for check in for your on-ward flight.

This brings to a conclusion the services provided by Sundance Spirit.