17 days tour

North Argentina Adventure (16 Nights)

$ 1,447 .00 USD

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North Argentina Adventure (16 Nights)

This tour includes:

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Ezeiza International Airport pickup and drop off Buenos Aires City Tour AM or PM 3 hours OR Buenos Aires Bike Tour Tango Show with Dinner, Drinks and transfers. Iguazu Bus Station pickup and drop off Full Day Tour to the Falls, Argentina Side Half Day Tour to the Falls, Brazilian Side Safari to the Clouds + Salt Flats day tour Humahuaca Full Day Tour Half Day Wineries Tour Full Day Aconcagua Valley Tour or Wite Water Rafting at Mendoza River (depending on weather conditions) or Hosreback Riding with barbeque.

Accommodation

3 nights Accommodation in Buenos Aires at selected basis with breakfast 3 nights Accommodation in Iguazu at selected basis with breakfast 3 nights Accommodation in Salta at selected basis with breakfast 1 night Accommodation in Purmamarca at selected basis. (Note: accommodation in Purmamarca may be more simple than accommodation in bigger cities) 2 nights Accommodation in Mendoza at selected basis with breakfast

Transport

Bus from Buenos Aires to Iguazu Bus from Iguazu to Tucuman Bus from Tucuman to Salta Bus from Salta to Mendoza Bus from Mendoza to Buenos Aires

Meals

Breakfasts Dinner during Tango Show in Buenos Aires

Not included:

Insurance

Insurance is not included

Others

Transfers to Buenos Aires Bus Station Transfers to Salta Bus Station Transfers to Mendoza Bus Station Entrance fee to Iguazu National Park Argentine side (aprox 20 USD per person) Entrance fee to Iguazu National Park Brazilian side (aprox 24 USD per person) Meals not specified in itinerary Towels in case of Hostel Dorm Room

Optional

Other activities and services not included

Guide

Guide is not included along the trip, only included during day trips in the different destinations.

Flights

International flights are not included

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Itinerary of your trip North Argentina Adventure (16 Nights)

  • Day 1 Day 1: Buenos Aires
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 1: Buenos Aires

      Arrival to Buenos Aires (NOT on Tuesday). Regular transfer from Ezeiza International Airport with the Airport Shuttle. Check in at selected accommodation

  • Day 2 Day 2: Buenos Aires
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 2: Buenos Aires

      Breakfast. 9 am City Tour:  Discover the beauty and wonders of Buenos Aires, see the National Congress, The Metropolitan Cathedral next to the Government House in May Square area. Visit the Colon Theater, one of the most important opera houses in Latin America and San Telmo, traditional neighborhood where Tango performances can be seen in many bars and restaurants. Stop at La Boca colorful neighborhood, which was seat of immigrants - mainly Italians - and now home of some artists.

      Enjoy Palermo, an area that combines its architecture and history with entertainment and amusement in its green spaces. Finally, La Recoleta, an exclusive and elegant neighborhood where the famous cemetery is found.


      Free afternoon.

  • Day 3 Day 3: Buenos Aires-Puerto Iguazu
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 3: Buenos Aires-Puerto Iguazu

      Breakfast and check out at 11 am. In the evening, departure to Puerto Iguazรบ by night bus.

  • Day 4 Day 4: Puerto Iguazu
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 4: Puerto Iguazu

      Arrival in Puerto Iguazu at about midday. Transfer to selected accommodation and check in.  Free day.

  • Day 5 Day 5: Puerto Iguazu
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 5: Puerto Iguazu

      Breakfast. 8 am Full Day Excursion to the Falls, Argentine side:  This Tour take will you to visit part of the Iguazรบ National Park. It preserves 67.000 ha. of giant trees, vines and ferns living with multicolored butterflies, birds and mammals, all of them part of the rich local flora and fauna.

      The park was declared Natural World Heritage in 1984, due to its scenic beauties and the great biological diversity of the subtropical jungle. The famous falls are in the heart of this Park.

      You will start the visit at the Local Museum and continue the Tour along  the Lower  Trail, from where you can see the " Two sisters Falls", the "Bossetti Fall", the "Hidden Fall", a panoramic view of "San Martin island " and the "Union Fall".

      Later you walk the Upper Trail shifting along walkways located above major falls up to the majestic "San Martin Fallโ€ from where you have a panoramic view of the Brazilian falls.

      Finally, you go with the Train of the Jungle up to "Devilโ€™s Throat" station. From there, after 1,000 meters walk along the catwalks, you will reach the spectacular "Devilโ€™s Throat", where the Iguazu river expresses itself with all its strength and the falling water gives the illusion of magic rainbows.

  • Day 6 Day 6: Puerto Iguazu
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 6: Puerto Iguazu

      Breakfast. 8 am Excursion to the Falls Brazilian Side, half day: Your guides take you to visit the wonderful Iguazu Falls, on the Brazilian side, from where you can enjoy a panoramic view of the Argentine water falls

      You will get close to "Floriano", "Deodoro," and "Benjamin" waterfalls, and the walkways lead you also to "Santa Maria Falls." (Beware of visa needs if going to the Brazilian side, eg: Australia, USA, Canada, China, etc)

  • Day 7 Day 7: Puerto Iguazu-Tucuman
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 7: Puerto Iguazu-Tucuman

      Breakfast and check out before 11 am. Bus station drop off. Depature to Tucuman city in the late evening. Night bus.

  • Day 8 Day 8: Tucuman-Salta
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 8: Tucuman-Salta

      Arrival in Tucuman in the evening to connect with another bus heading to Salta. Arrival to Salta, late in the night. Check in at selected accommodation. 

  • Day 9 Day 9: Salta - Purmamarca
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 9: Salta - Purmamarca

      Breakfast. Safari to the Clouds/Purmamarca Excursion:  You will travel in the same route as the famous Train to the Clouds, zigzagging on lonely roads between the blue sky and the Puna.  On your way, you will visit magnificent ruins, scattered houses, small villages and amazing landscapes. Departure from Salta will be at 7 am and you will quickly reach the small town of Campo Quijano and later, the impressive Quebrada del Toro. Soon you will leave all signs of vegetation as you enter the realms of the solitary Puna. In Santa Rosa de Tastil, a pre-Inca city of the XIII century, you will do a short archeological hiking. Later, you will reach San Antonio de los Cobres, a small minerยดs town rich in tradition and the Train to the Clouds final destination.

      Further ahead, a desert plateau will take you to the surreal landscape of the salt flats, where you stop again to walk around and enjoy the contrasts.

      In the afternoon, you will return through the overwhelming Lipan mountains and arrive at the Seven-color Hill in Purmamarca, a landmark on its own. You will overnight in this village suspended in time.

  • Day 10 Day 10: Purmamarca - Salta
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 10: Purmamarca - Salta

      Breakfast. Humahuaca Full Day Excursion:

      The Humahuaca Gorge is a long narrow and arid valley surrounded by beautiful and colorful mountains.  In addition to its natural beauty, this gorge follows the line of a major cultural route, the Camino Inca, offering substantial evidence of its use as a major trade route over the past 10,000 years. It features visible traces of prehistoric hunter-gatherer communities, of the Inca Empire (15th to 16th centuries) and of the fight for independence in the 19th and 20th centuries.

      During the tour we visit the villages of Purmamarca and the Seven color hill, Tilcara, Uquia and Humahuaca.

       Arrival to Salta at 7 โ€“ 8 pm

  • Day 11 Day 11: Salta
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 11: Salta

      Breakfast. Free day to enjoy optional tours or just relax in beautiful Salta city

  • Day 12 Day 12: Salta-Mendoza
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 12: Salta-Mendoza

      Breakfast.  Check Out. In the evening: Night bus to Mendoza.

  • Day 13 Day 13: Mendoza
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 13: Mendoza

      Arrival in Mendoza. Check in at selected accommodation. At 2.30 pm, Half Day Winery Tour: These Tour runs among vineyards in the areas of Lujan de Cuyo and Maipu. You will experience the work culture brought by of immigrants, using  irrigation techniques (canals and ditches) inherited from the former Huarpes Indians.  They managed to change a vast desert into a productive river oasis. This is the scene of the settlement of prestigious wineries, which represent Argentine wines in the world with high quality wines.

      You will visit two wineries, one with traditional organic methods and the other that uses the latest avaliable technology. Guided by professionals in winemaking, you will learn about the vinification methods and processes, bottling and labelling of wines, in the end of the tour you will taste the different grapes that the wineries offer. Departure: 2.30 pm. Sundays 08.30 am

  • Day 14 Day 14: Mendoza
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 14: Mendoza

      Breakfast. 7 am: Aconcagua Valley Day Trip (Alta Montaรฑa): The Tour offers a variety of colors and sceneries. Early in the morning along the river Mendoza, get a view of the majestic mountain range called Cordon del Plata and the Potrerillos dam, colossal work for hydraulic power generation and water distribution for irrigation. 

      Your next visit will be Uspallata, pre-Hispanic settlement of Huarpes indians and the southern  last point of the Inca Empire.

      Here you will see the Vaults of Uspallata, historic โ€œadobeโ€ (mud) buildings, that were used by the chaplain Fray Luis Beltran for casting cannons and guns.


      Afterwards you will visit the villages of Picheuta, Polvareda, Punta de Vacas and Los Penitentes ski resort. Free time for the use of chair lift to enjoy beautiful panoramic views. 

      Later, you will find Puente de Inca along your route, a huge natural bridge with strands of hot springs. 

      Continuing the road and 2750 meters above sea level you will reach the viewpoint of Cerro Aconcagua, the colossus of America (6959 meters high), from where you are going to the Laguna Horcones and the Aconcagua Provincial Park. 

      Following the international route to reach your last destination, Las Cuevas, an European-style village located 3200 meters above sea level. Back to town at 7 - 8 pm

  • Day 15 Day 15: Mendoza-Buenos Aires
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 15: Mendoza-Buenos Aires

      Breakfast. Check out. In the evening, night bus back to Buenos Aires

  • Day 16 Day 16: Buenos Aires
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 16: Buenos Aires

      Arrival to Buenos Aires in the morning. At 2 pm, Check In. Free Day.

      In the evening (8 pm), Tango Show with dinner: To watch from the most spectacular window in the city the blend of the river that brought the immigrants who would give birth to tango, with the most modern buildings of Argentina, is to acknowledge that tango is alive.

      To enjoy โ€œexperiencing Madero Tangoโ€ is to really get to know where tango lives. This musical genre recently declared human heritage is much more than the memory of its golden decades. Today, tango moves your nerve, impassions you, woes youโ€ฆ It is definitely alive and it is the real and vivid story of everyday life. Madero Tango is the only place of its kind where the present and the past merge to create a bond between the audience and tango that is never forgotten.

      Seating from the 3rd to the 5th Row, Side of the Stage, and the 1st and 2nd Rows, Running Perpendicular to the Stage. It also makes it possible for the customers to choose an entrรฉe, a main course and a dessert from among a variety of five options. A bottle of wine, local production, every two customers of the famous Malbec, Cabernet or Chardonnay grapevines is also included. Customers will also have the option of drinking a soft drink or a beer chop per person

  • Day 17 Day 17: Buenos Aires
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 17: Buenos Aires

      Breakfast. Check out. Transfer to Ezeiza International Airport with the regular Airport Shuttle Service.

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Experience Style

Experience Style

Mixed

There will be challenging activities such as hiking, biking, canyoning and trekking, but youโ€™re also going to have other means of transportation and relaxed moments to just chill.

Accomodation level

Accomodation level

Medium

This accommodation includes essential services like a hot shower, electricity, and a nice and comfy bed.

Experience Type

Experience Type

Small Group

Youโ€™ll be accompanied by a small group of travelers just like you.

Physical Rating

Physical Rating

Basic

Almost everyone is fit for these activities. Every hike or physical exercise last less than 30 minutes, such as paragliding and horseback riding. Please ask about specific conditions.

Age range

Age range

Min: 18 / Max: 99

Age range allowed for this experience.

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