TRAVEL DEALS ARGENTINA
PATAGONIA & ROUTE 40 & ANDES (18 NIGHTS)
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DAY 1
Arrival to Salta. Accommodation in shared room. Rest of the day free.
DAY 2
Breakfast. Full day tour to Cachi or Cafayate
Cachi: We are starting our trip taking the route 68 to the South passing through little towns. We will be travelling across Escoipe Gorge, The Enchanted Valley until Mill ´s Stone (3400 masl), from where we´ll be entering into the National Park Los Cardones. We´ll take an old Inca road, passing through the town of  Payogasta until we arrive to Cachi, village that still keeps the architecture of its colonial past. There we´ll visit the church, the main square, the antropological museum and the craft market. At the end of the visit, we are coming back to Salta through the same road.

*Cafayate: We are leaving from Salta to the South, taking the route 68, passing through little towns like Cnel. Moldes, La Viña (agricultural area which main production is tobacco). We are visiting the village of Alemanía, and from there we are entering to Cafayate Gorge, where we´ll see in the mountains the erosion of millions of years, created by wind and water (Devil´s Throat, Amphitheater, The Monk, The Castles, Parrot´s House, The Windows and The Toad). After visiting these places, we are arriving to the town of Cafayate to visit some wineries and to taste the speciality of the region, torrontés wine. After walking through the town, we are coming back to Salta through the same gorge, which will offer us a different landscape in our way back to the city.

DAY 3
Breakfast. Full day excursion “Backpackers to the clouds”. We´ll take route 51 to the West, to San Antonio de los Cobres where we will travel parallel to the railway track of the famous Train to the Clouds. We´ll travel across Bull Gorge, Chorrillos, Ingeniero Maury, Alfarcito, Las Cuevas and Santa Rosa de Tastil, where we visit the ruins with the same name, the town and the antropological museum. We continue to San Antonio de los Cobres where we´ll walk around in this old mining town. Once finished this visit, we´ll change direction, this time to the North passing through route 40 towards the Big Salt Flats, shared with the province of Jujuy. There we´ll see the pools where the salt is extracted. After visiting the salt lakes, we continue to Purmamarca through Lipan´s Slope and Los Amarillos. Once in Purmamarca we´ll visit the town and after this visit we´ll go back to Salta.
DAY 4
Breakfast. Free morning. In the evening departure to Mendoza. Night in the bus.
DAY 5
Arrival to Mendoza. Accommodation in shared room. In the evening Wineries excursion. We visit one craft and one industrial winery.
DAY 6

Breakfast 7.30 am High Mountain excursion. We are starting our trip taking the route 7, go over “The Andes”, Potrerillos (valley before mountains), Uspallata Valley. We visit the historic bridge "Picheuta", Polvaredas, "Punta de Vacas" (Mendoza river beginning), "Penitentes" (sky center), visit to "Puente de Inca" (geology area and hot spring water), Aconcagua Provincial Park (Horcones lagoon), "Las cuevas" border area. If the weather and path are good we visit "Cristo Redentor de los Andes" 4200 meters above the sea level. Return to the hostel.

DAY 7
Breakfast. Free Day. At the evening departure to Bariloche. Night at the bus.
DAY 8
Arrival to Bariloche and free Day. Night at hostel.
DAY 9

Breakfast. We leave to the South by the route Nº 258, going over the Gutierrez and Mascardi lake. After diverting towards the west we begin entering in the Nahuel Huapi National Park.
Our first stop will be in the footpath that leads to the Cesares Cascade and we will do trekking of 45 minutes (approx) where we will enjoy one of the prettiest places of the National Park within viewpoints and cascades. Soon we will continue across the Vuriloches valley, bordering the Manso Upper River when the majesty of the Tronador mountain begins to be appreciated, (highest of the zone with 3,554 mts.) with its glaciers that descend by their slopes.
We do a stop in “Pampa Linda” to have lunch (not included) and soon we continue towards “Ventisquero Negro”, the unique Black Glacier in Patagonia, and if is possible we will do another trekking until the viewpoint “Ada Mariana” to enjoy this unique Glacier.
In order to finalize we do the last trekking becoming absorbed ourselves in the thick forest which will take us to the “Saltillo Las Nalcas”.
We will return to the hostel in Bariloche.

DAY 10

Breakfast and departure to "Puerto Pañuelo" (Port Handkerchief), located to 25 km from Bariloche in front of the Llao-Llao hotel. After half an hour by navigation around the Nahuel Huapi Lake, we arrived at the Anchorena Port, located in the central and narrower zone of the Victory Island. Once we arrive it is possible to ascend by ski lift until the panoramic point that is in the top of the Bellavista hill to obtain a spectacular postcard of the Anchorena Bay and of all the zone that surrounds to the Llao-Llao hotel and "Puerto Pañuelo" (Port Handkerchief). The island also displays different options as one long walk to Gross Port or one visit to "Playa del Toro", in which in addition there is an archaeological site with cave paintings. After boarding and some minutes of navigation we arrive at the Arrayanes Forest in the Quetrihué Peninsula. There, by a footpath of 600 meters we can observe magnificent Arrayanes specimens that form a cinnamon color flowing forest, considered unique in the world by their characteristics.

DAY 11

Breakfast. Departure to Perito Moreno. Accommodation in shared room.

DAY 12

Breakfast. Optional: Cueva de las Manos.
Departure to Calafate. Arrival to Calafate. Night at the hostel

DAY 13
Breakfast. Full Day Glacier Perito Moreno Excursion: We departure from El Calafate early in the morning to enjoy the landscape, the nature, the fauna and the wide variety of birds (trying to arrive to the glacier before everyone). Through the gangways we visit the north face of the Perito Moreno Glacier, in different viewpoints from different altitudes.
DAY 14
Breakfast. Free day.
DAY 15
Departure to Rio Gallegos, connection bus to Ushuaia (Night at the bus).
DAY 16
Arrival to Ushuaia and free Day.
DAY 17
Breakfast. We take the excursion Lakes off Road, in this excursion you get shaken up inside a 4x4. However, Lakes is a trip for all ages. That doesn’t mean we won’t be driving into the lake itself to surf the waves, or taking on impossible mud tracks, or rescuing the truck ourselves from natural ensnarement using the winch. On this trip you can not miss, we’ll be crossing the Andes, and following Lake Fagnano for 10 miles (15km) up to the banks where Canal’s cabin is waiting for us. In this idyllic place, located in the middle of a thousand-year-old forest, we’ll be lunching on an azquisite barbeque and spicing up the after-dinner chats with some well deserved toasts. On the way back, we’ll make a stop at Hostería Petrel, facing Lake Escondido. We’ll drive again through National Road 3 coming back to Ushuaia. End of the escapade, beginning of a great friendship. Return to the Hostel.
DAY 18
Breakfast. National Park Full Day Excursion. In the morning 9am aprox we go to Lapataia National Park that combines sea, mountains and forest.
Lapataia Bay, the coast of the Beagle Channel, the most incredible flora and fauna with red foxes, woodpeckers, steamer ducks, condors, eagles, beaver dams and peat bogs, all rubbing shoulders in the most spectacular setting. After the trekking, you have the chance to sail in a Zodiac to Redonda Island, or row in a duckie along the beautiful internal rivers of the park. You can not miss! - a whole new vision of our majestic park. Walking, rowing or sailing, we get right in to this beautiful region and we experience it right up close. By combining any of these activities, you can see for yourself the imposing variety and quantity of animal species, plants and landscapes. Return to the hostel.
DAY 19
Breakfast. Free Day. End of our services

PRICE : 4300 ARS

Available since middle of  November to March.


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  • 3 nights accommodation with breakfast in Hostel in Salta, shared room
  • Tour Cachi “or” Cafayate
  • Tour Backpackers to the clouds
  • Bus Salta – Mendoza
  • 2 nights accommodation with breakfast in Hostel in Mendoza, shared room.
  • High Mountain excursion
  • Half day winery excursion
  • Bus Mendoza - Bariloche
  • 3 nights accommodation with breakfast in Hostel in Bariloche, shared room
  • Tronador Multitrek excursion
  • Victoria Island and Arrayanes Forest excursion
  • Bus Bariloche – Perito Moreno
  • 1 night accommodation with breakfast in Perito Moreno, shared room
  • Bus Perito Moreno - Calafate
  • 2 nights accommodation with breakfast in Hostel in Calafate, shared room
  • Perito Moreno Glacier excursion
  • Bus Calafate – Rio Gallegos
  • Bus Rio Gallegos – Ushuaia
  • 3 nights accommodation with breakfast in hostel in  Ushuaia, shared room
  • National Park Lapataia: Trekking and navigation excursion
  • Lakes off Road excursion

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