Duration of journey: 22 days, 21 nights

Total drive distance: about 4500 km

Best months to travel: September to April

Price: €

Includes: all overnights with breakfast, all private transfers with bilingual guide in Buenos Aires, city Tour in Buenos Aires with guide, van with German and English speaking driver / TC, gasoline during the whole tour, boat excursion and whale watching on Valdés, boat excursion on Beagle Channel, all entrance fees in national parks and reserves, horseback riding at estancia La Oriental, ferry to Tierra del Fuego

Day 1:
Arrival at Buenos Aires airport, private transfer to hotel. Overnight in a 4 star-hotel in the city of Buenos Aires. Optional: in the evening tango-show in San Telmo.


Day 2:
In the morning (starting from hotel 9 am) 3 hour city tour with guide, in the afternoon transfer (from hotel 1,5 hours before flight departure) to the national airport and flight to Trelew, where your driver/guide will receive you. Drive to Puerto Mardyn. From May to December this is the place where the southern Right Whale arrives and remains to mate and give birth. A boat cruise allows us to enjoy those animals from a very short distance. Overnight in Puerto Pirámides at a 3 star-hotel.
Drive distance: 60 km on paved road.


Day 3:
Full day tour around Península Valdés, visiting the most important sea elephant colony at the east cost, than, in the north a fur seal colony and marine birth reserve. Along our drive we will see a lot of other animals as Guanacos, Nandues, Maras and an endless number of birds in the steppe. Overnight as day before.
Drive distance: 360 km (190 on gravel road)


Day 4:
Our trip leads us toward south, where we visit Cabo Dos Bahías. Hundred thousands of penguins arrive at this cost to mate and give birth. We can watch them running just around us.
Continuing to Comodoro Rivadavia we overnight at 3* hotel.
Drive distance: 610 km paved road


Day 5:
Today the road we follow turns toward west to Sarmiento, in the middle of a green and fertile region next to the biggest lakes of the Patagonian "meseta", the Musters and Colhue Huapi lakes. We visit the amazing Petrified Forest reserve enjoying the wonderful sunset over that very special scenery for photographers. Our drive continues to the west until we reach the legendary Ruta 40, Argentinian´s longest road (4600 km), where we will really be impressed by its wildness.
Overnight at one of the oldest "estancias" in Patagonia, Telken.
Drive distance: 500 km (160 km gravel road).


Day 6:
Day free, nice possibilities to make some hikes in the surroundings of the estancia, and to watch birds on a small lagoon near to the main house. Overnight as day before.



Day 7:
Drive to the Cuevas de las Manos (prehistoric cave paintings). The Cuevas were a sacred site for the Tehuelches and their ancestors so that we can find about 9000 years old paintings, mainly hands.In the afternoon we continue our trip southwards and than to the west, approaching the Andes and the huge snow covered Cerro San Lorenzo. Overnight at Estancia Suyai on Pueyrredón lake.
Drive distance: 290 km gravel road.


Day 8:
Hike along the lake, deep into the wilderness, towards the Chilean border, with overwhelming vews over the Patagonian steppe. Overnight as night before


Day 9:
Optional horseback riding or hike into the Rio Oro Valley, towards the huge San Lorenzo. Overnight as night before


Day 10:
After breakfast and once again along the Ruta 40, we head southward to El Chaltén. This part of our trip leads us through the (by far) vastest and loneliest region in Patagonia, only interrupted by some huge estancias, without seeing a single vehicle on our way. In the evening arrival at El Chaltén, where the legendary Mount Fitz Roy and Mount Torre are part of one of the most amazing mountain regions in the world. Overnight at a 3* hotel.
Drive distance: 600 km gravel road.


Day 11:
Hiking to Laguna de los Tres, enjoying an incredible view of Mount Fitz Roy along the whole trek. After 3 to 4 hours we reach the lagoon which lies at the feet of Mount Fitz Roy, offering a breathtaking close up view of huge granite peaks soaring above us. Overnight as night before.


Day 12:
Hiking to Laguna Torre, the base camp for the ascents to Mount Torre, one of the most difficult summits in the world. The view we get while having lunch is just overwhelming over all of those ice covered peaks and huge glaciers. Late afternoon drive to Calafate on Lago Argentino and overnight at an estancia next to Calafate.
Drive distance: 220 km gravel road.


Day 13:
Full day lake excursion into the amazing glacier world of the Onelli-, Upsala- and Spegazzini galciers. On our way we shall observe lots of house-sized chunks of ice broken form the glacier. Overnight as day before.


Day 14:
Full day excursion to the famous Perito Moreno Glacier, one of the highlights in Southern Patagonia.Being the only glacier in the world which is permanently advancing, it has been declared by UNESCO a world heritage. We shall wait for the sunset, because the scenery of its amazing shapes and colours is the best during this hours. Overnights as night before.
Drive distance: 180 km gravel road.


Day 15:
After crossing the vast Patagonian steppe we reach we reach Cerro Castillo, where we can purchase some food supplies and then we continue to Torres del Paine National park. The Paine massif is the most impressive mountain wilderness region in the Patagonian Andes, breathtaking rock spires, tumbling glaciers, milky green lakes, beech forest and windswept grasslands, which supports an amazing variety of geese, ducks and black necked swans, guanacos, foxes and nandús.Overnight at Hostería in Rio Serrano region.
Drive distance: 390 km, mostly on gravel road.


Day 16:
Hiking to Torres del Paine. After a challenging hike through rolling grassland, then crossing beech forests and finally steeply up along the moraine we shall approach the base of the vertical rock face towering more than 1000 meters directly upward. Overnight as night before.


Day 17:
Short transfer to Grey lake, with unforgettable views of the Paine Horns (Cuernos del Paine) and the Paine Massif, as well as Lago Grey and the Grey Glacier. If weather permits there is an optional boat excursion to get closer to the glacier with its huge dimensions flowing from the vast Patagonian icecap. On our way we shall observe lots of house-sized chunks of ice broken form the glacier. Overnight as night before.


Day 18:
Again toward south and crossing the endless steppe, we reach Punta Arenas in the afternoon, an important city on the Magellan channel and base for the Antarctic expeditions. Overnight in a 3-star hotel.
Drive distance: 340 km, on paved and gravel road.


Day 19:
Today we have a long day driving mostly on paved and gravel road, crossing the border to Argentina and reaching Ushuaia in the evening. The unspoiled and wild nature of Tierra del Fuego consists of vast grasslands, old beech forests, snow covered peaks and deep green valleys. Overnight at a bungalow with a panoramic view over the Beagle channel and Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world.
Driving distance: 450 km.


Day 20:
In the morning drive to the National Park and short hikes through Lapataia Bay and Tierra del Fuego National Park. At the afternoon boat excursion on Beagle Channel (duration: 4 hours), visiting the Isla de los Pájaros with colonies of cormoranes and other sea birds, the Isla de los Lobos crowded with sea lions. Overnight as night before.


Day 21:
In the morning flight to Buenos Aires, private transfer into town and overnight at a 4 star hotel.


Day 22:
Private transfer (from hotel 3 hours before flight time) to the international airport and departing flight.



Price: €

Includes:all overnights with breakfast, all private transfers with bilingual guide in Buenos Aires, city Tour in Buenos Aires with guide, van with German and English speaking driver / TC, gasoline during the whole tour, boat excursion and whale watching on Valdés, boat excursion on Beagle Channel, all entrance fees in national parks and reserves, horseback riding at estancia La Oriental, ferry to Tierra del Fuego

Not Included: flights, airport taxes, optional excursion and activities, insurance, medical insurance, extras, meals, extras tips and gratitude to the guides.

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