Private Journeys

Value Argentina: Explore Patagonia

13 days from £2,523pp

(based on two people sharing & excluding flights)

Argentina / Patagonia

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Overview & Highlights

An economical holiday with walking in the Patagonian lake district, around Fitz Roy and Perito Moreno glacier, with a backdrop of volcanoes and jagged, icy mountains. You also have time to explore on your own.

The world's most spectacular wildernesses can be hard to reach. Not so in Argentine Patagonia, just a short drive away from the airport at El Calafate you enter the stunning Los Glaciares National Park. This budget holiday includes walks in some of the loveliest landscapes in the country including the volcano-dotted lake district.

Your trip begins and ends in cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, considered to be Latin America's most European city, with its wide boulevards, colonial architecture and café society. Fly onto the Alpine-style resort town of Bariloche in the lake district, where you can explore the snow-dusted mountains, lakes and evergreen forests along gentle walking trails. From here you continue south to the windswept landscape of Patagonia, where you get up close to the vast Perito Moreno Glacier, which calves huge chunks of ice into the water below. El Chaltén is the jumping off point for explorations of the Fitz Roy region of Patagonia, which offers you the chance to admire some of the most dramatic mountain scenery on the continent.

Guided cycle tour in Buenos Aires
Hiking on Cerro Otto, lake district
Guided excursion to Perito Moreno Glacier

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Outline itinerary

Day 1

Arrive in Buenos Aires. Transfer to your hotel.

Day 2

Biking tour of stylish quarters of the capital.

Day 3

Fly to Bariloche, lake district (northern Patagonia), transfer to hotel.

Day 4

Guided excursion to Cerro Otto.

Day 5

At leisure in the lake district.

Day 6

Fly to El Calafate (southern Patagonia), transfer to hotel.

Day 7

Visit Perito Moreno glacier; boat cruise on the lake.

Day 8

By bus to El Chaltén; assistance to your hotel.

Days 9-10

At leisure in the El Chaltén district, optional activities.

Day 11

Return to El Calafate by public bus.

Day 12

Transfer to the airport and fly to Buenos Aires. Transfer to hotel.

Day 13

Transfer to airport.

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Things to do

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Bike tour of Buenos Aires

Eat your way around Buenos Aires

Day walks around Bariloche

Visit the Perito Moreno glacier

Day walks around El Chalten

Accommodation

Browse our unrivalled portfolio of accommodation . Every option has been carefully chosen by our team of travel experts, so you can rest assured that you’ll relax in utter comfort.

Argentina / Buenos Aires

Kenton Palace

Argentina / Argentine lake district

Hosteria Las Marianas

Argentina / El Calafate and Los Glaciares National Park

Sierra Nevada Hotel

Argentina / El Chalten and the Fitz Roy Massif

Hosteria Senderos

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What our clients say

The bright colours of the towns and cities, buildings, fruit and vegetables, flowers and trees!
CS, Guildford
Nov 2018
The Iguazu Falls were awesome. We enjoyed all the places we visited. I was recommended JLA from someone who had used them before. We were not disappointed. We have had a really good time, seen so much and had the best tour leader. I am certainly going to use them again, and really hope we have Max again. Thank you JLA.
CG, Stevenage
Oct 2014
Most memorable experience? - Boat trip at Tortuguero. Watching a falcon catch and eat a snake! Seeing Honduran White tent-building bats roosting under a Heliconium leaf.
A superb holiday for those with an interest in wildlife and environment. It is intense, but this results in a highly rewarding experience. The whole holiday was greatly enhanced by having a single guide throughout, who had extensive local knowledge and experience.
ST, York
Feb 2018
An exceptional trip which really gave us a feel for the countries we visited. A special mention should go to our tour leader - he was outstanding.
EJ, Chorley
Nov 2018
It was a wonderful trip. It was all good. In saying what I say next that is not to denigrate anything else. However, here we were at the vineyards outside Mendoza. It is a beautiful day weather-wise. We have had a fine tour of the vineyard and winery. The vineyard is itself beautiful and peaceful. Now we are in a lovely modern building for the 'lecture' and tastings. I am feeling very happy. Can it get any better? Yes. I look beyond the lecturer out of the window and there I see the beauty of the vineyard and 'just' behind that of the high Andes. Breathtaking!
I have been travelling for over half a century but his was my first organised tour and it was wonderful. As I said on my return I would go again next week if my diary was not full, I needed a rest and was not minded to spend as much again so soon.
IM, London
Apr 2017
Overall it was a wonderful trip with an exceptional tour leader assisted by excellent local guides and drivers. We left with memories that will last a lifetime.
GC, Fortrose
Mar 2018

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