Calafate Básico 2N

ITINERARY:

Day 1

Arrival, assistance and reception by our staff at the airport and transfer in regular service to the selected hotel. 

Day 2

Breakfast at the hotel.

In the morning, departure from the hotel to visit Los Glaciares National Park, which has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The glaciers that gave it its name - about 47 in total - show a world of 10 thousand years ago: cold and wild. 

The most famous is the Perito Moreno Glacier, located at the southwestern end of Lake Argentino, 80 km. from El Calafate. The glacier is named after the great Argentine explorer of the 19th century and is one of the few in the world in advance. This has made it one of the greatest natural spectacles in South America. Every so often, its 60-meter-high front detaches walls of ice as big as buildings that fall into the waters of the Brazo Rico or the Canal de los Témpanos, and then sail out through the Canal towards the main body of the lake. But that is not all. The glacier, as it advances, approaches the Magallanes Peninsula, on the opposite shore of the lake and point of the sector of footbridges and viewpoints. The cycle takes 4 to 6 years and ends up dividing the lake in two. The Rico arm is dammed and rises approximately 35 m above its level. The waters slowly drill a tunnel in the front of the glacier until the pressure makes it collapse. The spectacle is indescribable. The waters rush down in gigantic waves, and then start the whole process all over again.

Return to the hotel. Lodging

Day 3

Breakfast at the hotel.

At the agreed time transfer in regular service to the airport to board the plane for the flight back to the hotel.