Glaciers & Lakes of Patagonia

• Meet the icy giant of Patagonia – Full-day visit with boat trip

During the morning, we will pick you up from your hotel and drive you to Glaciers National Park to enjoy this 6-hour experience.  You will travel about 25 miles from El Calafate to the park, enjoying the views of the Patagonian steppe. Once inside the park, you will take walkways to explore the different viewpoints, and you’ll feel unbelievably close to Perito Moreno Glacier. If you’re lucky, you may even get to see a piece of ice break off and fall from the glacier wall, sinking forever into the lake below.

 Over the course of about one hour, a bilingual guide will provide you with all the information you might want to know…and things you may have never thought about. After this visit, you will take a boat ride that will bring you close enough to fully appreciate the 262-foot ice walls of Perito Moreno! You’ll never feel closer to this gigantic and impressive natural masterpiece. At the end of the day, we will drive you back to your hotel.  

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• Walk over the Big Ice

Have you ever imagined walking across the surface of a glacier? Well, this is your chance! The Mini Trekking tour will allow you to trek on Perito Moreno Glacier… This is one of our favorite Patagonia outings; we’re sure you won’t regret it.  This is an optional excursion you can add to this day.

• Transfer from your hotel to El Calafate airport

Continue your Patagonia trip traveling to the capital of the Lake District. At the appropriate time, we’ll pick you up from your hotel and take you to the airport to take your flight to Bariloche.

• Transfer from the airport to your hotel in Bariloche – Day at leisure

Upon arrival, we’ll drive you to your hotel in Bariloche. Then you will have the day to explore the city or the surroundings.

Bariloche sits on the southern coast of Nahuel Huapi, a glacier-water lake with enthralling islands and beaches. Hills and mountains framing the area allow visitors to enjoy all sorts of hiking trails and winter sports (Cerro Catedral is home to the biggest ski slopes in South America), as well as some mesmerizing views of the natural wonders of Patagonia. This region has it all — horseback riding through the Patagonian steppe, navigations through pristine blue-green waters, and the most mouthwatering chocolate in the country!

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Our recommended Bariloche tours  for your day at leisure:

• Visit Playa Bonita, it is on km 8 of Av. Bustillo (there are public buses leaving from downtown every twenty minutes). During summer months, on hot days, it gets full up with families and brave people who jump into the cold waters of Nahuel Huapi!

• Take a horseback ride through a long-living cypresses and coihues forest, surrounded by mountains and glacier streams until reaching an excellent panoramic view of the outstanding Patagonian landscape. Set off along the shore of the lake to complete this beautiful two hour horseback riding experience.

• Full-day visit – History and nature of Bariloche

Bariloche tours can be completed if you don’t visit legendary places like Cerro Campanario and famous Hotel Llao-Llao. We’ll pick you up from your hotel and for around 6 hours you will tour the area in an active way. Your guide will be constantly focused on sharing the vast history of the area and the most relevant facts about the natural heritage of Bariloche.

You will visit Campanario Hill, considered by National Geographic to be the 8th-best view in the world, and one of the most visited places here—1500 people go to enjoy the view every day. Our guides are local experts and know the perfect time to visit. They will bring you there before the crowds swarm, so that you can have a close-up and intimate experience.

Other fabled places you will visit include Nahuel Huapi and the mild waters of Moreno Lake, Lopez and Capilla mountains, and the world-renowned Llao-Llao Hotel. Get ready to walk between millenary arrayanes trees on a nature-oriented outing through the impressive forest in the Llao-Llao Nature Park.

After filling your lungs with the refreshing air of the forest, you’ll enjoy your boxed lunch, and at the end of the day we’ll take you back to your hotel.

• Full-day visit to Puerto Blest and Cascada de los Cántaros

Today, we’ll pick you up from your hotel and drive you to Puerto Pañuelo on the Llao Llao peninsula where you’ll set out by boat. After one hour of sailing, passing by Centinela Island, the resting place of Perito Francisco Pascasio Moreno, one of the first explorers of Patagonia, you’ll arrive at Puerto Blest. 

Puerto Blest is one of the heavenly ports of Nahuel Huapi Lake and one of the most famous Bariloche tours. A secluded place that has amazed travelers from all over the world with its beautiful vegetation – one of the most varied in Bariloche – and a relaxed atmosphere created by the mountains and the surrounding Valdivian Forest.

Once there, you’ll be able to tour the bay, eat your boxed lunch and walk the shores of Lake Frías to see its peculiar green waters, which help to form the natural border between Argentina and Chile.

From there, and after a short 5-minute sail later, you’ll visit Cascada de los Cántaros (Cántaros Waterfall) and take a walk through the lush vegetation of the Valdivian rainforest, arriving at Lago Cántaros, where the overwhelming 1,500-year-old larch tree will be waiting. At the end of this full-day tour, we’ll drive you back to Bariloche.

• Transfer from your hotel to Bariloche airport

Time to end your Patagonia trip. Today, we’ll pick you up from your hotel and bring you to the airport to take your flight to Buenos Aires.

• Transfer from Buenos Aires airport to your hotel – Day at leisure

Upon arrival, we’ll be waiting to drive you to your hotel in the city. Enjoy your last night in one of the trendy restaurants or bars in Palermo Soho, or maybe visit one of the many milongas (tango houses). Don’t be shy! If you can cross the Patagonian lakes and reach forbidding glaciers in the wilderness, you can definitely mingle with Argentine locals in their favorite dance spots.    

• Transfer from your hotel to Buenos Aires airport

Today we’ll drive you to the airport, where these 9 days in Argentina and your Patagonia trip come to a close. But don’t be sad! You can return whenever you want (we’ll welcome you with open arms), or… continue your trip towards the North of Argentina, to beautiful Salta or the wine region in Mendoza. Argentina still has plenty to offer! Check out our travelers’ favorite trips to Argentina and Chile.