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Trekking To The Glaciers tour 10 days - 9 nights
 

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 Price per person US$2910 based on double  occupancy
 

 Price per person US$2515 based on double occupancy
 

Hotels included in this package
Buenos Aires : Colon Hotel 
El Calafate:Calafate Parque Hotel
Ushuaia :Ushuaia hotel

Hotels included in this package
Buenos Aires : Esmeralda Palace Hotel
El Calafate:Rincon del Calafate Hotel
Ushuaia : Tierra del fuego Apart-Hotel

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Day n º 1: BUENOS AIRES
Reception on Ezeiza´s International Airport. Transfer to the Hotel. Rest of the day off, of agreement with schedules of flight of entry. Accomodation.

Day n º 2: BUENOS AIRES
Breakfast. City Tour for Buenos Aires, crossing 9º of July Avenue, Santa Fe Avenue, House of Government, National Congress, Colón Theatre , Puerto Madero, San Telmo's Neighborhood and La Boca´s Neighborhood, I walk along Caminito. Palermo´s Hood. In the night Dinner - Show of Tango in " Señor Tango ". Accomodation.

Day n º 3: BUENOS AIRES / USHUAIA
Breakfast and transfer to the airport to take a flight to Ushuaia. Reception and tansfer to the hotel. Accomodation.

Day n º 4: USHUAIA
Breakfast. Early in the morning departed from the hotel towards the Glacier Martial to begin, from the base of the same one, a trek on the ice, which will be able to spread up to the top edge from where we will have a panoramic sight of Beagle's Channel, the Bay and Ushuaia's Peninsula. During the walks we will have the possibility of climbing ice, with pickax and gramps in a crack glacier, led by an expert guide of mountain. In the evening we go towards the Valley of Andorra. This schedule is most adapted to be able to make concrete the Avistaje of Beavers. In the above mentioned tour we travel some kilometres out of route (Off Road), to arrive finally at a zone of the forest where several castoreras are. It is necessary to clarify that, the seesigth is not 100% insured, but they fit many possibilities that it is effective. Return to the hotel. Accomodation.

Day n º 5: USHUAIA
Breakfast. At the been convenient departure of the Hotel with direction to the Bay Ensenada where we are waited by a semidirected boat that it crosses passengers up to the Island Redonda. In this tour some colonies of cormarones magallánicos can be observed and in some epochs of the year, marine wolves. Once in the Island Redonda a trek is realized. Later it goes away in boat up to Bay Lapataia, where the trek is begun by paths of interpretation up to Black Lagoon. There it begins the trekking. The trek lasts 3:30 hs approximately and comes near to a panoramic point from where the observes the Lake Rock, Green Lagoon, Black Lagoon, Ovando River, Lapataia River and Bay Lapataia. Since the whole trekking passes out of the public paths, the seesigth of avifauna is much more possible. Later we will realize the excursion to know the beauty of the Hidden Lake and Lake Fagnano, visiting also the Stay Harberton, the first stay of Tierra del Fuego, it is located to 85 kilometres to the east of Ushuaia. Reurn to the hotel. Accomodation.


Day n º 6: USHUAIA / EL CALAFATE
Breakfast and transfer to the airport to take a flight to El Calafate. Reception and tansfer to the hotel. Accomodation.

Day n º 7: EL CALAFATE
Breakfast. The Excursion begins in the Port located in the Bay " Down the Shades ", - approximately 7 km before the viewing-point of the Glacier - where it embarks to cross the Rich Lake, coming to the South-western coast after approximately 20 minutes of navigation with sight of the south wall of the Perito Moreno´s Glacier. After the disembarkation one accedes to the refuge where the guides organize the groups beginning then a trek for the shore of the Lake of approximately 20 minutes up to the Glacier. On having come at the edge of the ice the guides place the gramps to the trippers, who receive instructions on the form in which they must move on the ice. The tour on the Glacier extends during more or less an hour and fifty minutes. During the course of the same one it will be possible estimate a variety of formations of ice as: cracks, seracs, sinks, small lagoons, etc. The trek is moderate. The surface of the ice on the one that is travelled is irregular, but firm and sure. Explanations will be received it brings over of the Flora, fauna and general Glaciología of the region as this way also of the particular phenomenon of break of the Glacier. Ultimately one returns the walk to the refuge crossing the exuberant forest magallánico, where the visitors have lunch contemplating a wonderful sight. Once finished one returns the lunche on to the Port, where a bus waits for them to move them up to the Viewing-point of the Glacier and his gangplanks, where they will be able to remain during an hour. Then the return will be tackled towards El Calafate. Return to the hotel. Accomodation.

Day n º 8: EL CALAFATE
Breakfast. The excursion departs from El Calafate from Punta Bandera, to approximately 50 km from the city, and penetrates for the north arm of the lake to come to the glacier Upsala, one of the biggest, with approximately 50 km from length and 10 km from width. Then it continues towards Bay Onelli and of there, for land, up to the lagoon of the same name, created by the glaciers Onelli, Agassiz and Bolados. Landing in oriental margen of the Peninsula Herminita to initiate a trek in ascent of 3 hours approximately for a path that was a way constructed by the Argentine Army. In this section there are crossed glens and small valleys produced by the step of the Glacier. In the middle of the morning it comes near to the Refuge Upsala, Base of the Continental Patagonian Argentine Ice, which was constructed in the year 1959 by the Institute of the Continental Ice, and from where there can be seen the Hills Phister and North, which waters of thaw are spilt in the Lake Anita. From here there is recaptured the last section of approximately 800 meters to come to the natural viewing-point of the Glacier Upsala, where the passengers will have opposite to his eyes 595 km2 of ice. Return to the hotel. Accomodation.


Day n º 9: EL CALAFATE / BUENOS AIRES
Breakfast and transfer to the airport to take a flight to Buenos Aires. Reception and tansfer to the hotel. Accomodation.

Day n º 10: BUENOS AIRES / CITY OF ORIGIN
Brakfast and transfer to Ezeiza´s International Airport to take your International flight .


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INCLUDED IN THE FEE

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All scheduled guided tours
Domestic flights BUE/ USH/FTE/BUE
Meals as specified in the Itinerary
Accommodations specified in the Itinerary
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NOT INCLUDED IN THE FEE

Not Included the International flights
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