The falls, the ice, and everything between.

The ice front at Perito Moreno, the falls from the Argentine bank, a tango floor in San Telmo, a Malbec cellar under the Andes, the Beagle Channel and the whales of Península Valdés. Most Argentina trips get built around these six.

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The steel balconies face the ice front from a few hundred metres and the calving does the rest. The boats push closer. The crampon trek puts you on top of it. These three carry the most travellers; the full list splits the rest by how much ice you want underfoot.

• 1Perito Moreno Glacier & Optional Boat Cruisefrom $80
• 2Perito Moreno Glacier Trekking Tour and Cruisefrom $396
• 3Perito Moreno Glacier Full Day Tour with Optional Boat Safarifrom $80

The classic

Balconies first, then the boat

8 hours· from $80· El Calafate pickups

Two hours on the walkways watching blocks drop into the Canal de los Témpanos, then an hour on the water where the wall stands taller than the boat.

On the ice

Crampons on, out across the glacier

5–11h· from $396· age limits apply

Across Brazo Rico by launch, harness and crampons at the moraine, then hours walking blue ice past meltwater mills and cracks you can see the bottom of.

The far walls

Upsala, Spegazzini and the icebergs

8 hours· from $161· sails from Punta Bandera

The all-day navigation up Canal Upsala through the iceberg field to Spegazzini, the tallest face in the park, well past where any road goes.

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More travellers take these than anything else in the country, and each one earns the day differently.

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Taste Argentina’s best bites across Palermo with Sherpa Food Tours, including wine, steak, empanadas, dessert, and local stories.

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2 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,475 reviews Buenos Aires City Private Tour with Local Guide from $126 3 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 2,586 reviews Perito Moreno Glacier & Optional Boat Cruise from $80 4 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,226 reviews Buenos Aires Small-Group City Tour from $38 5 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 2,122 reviews Piazzolla Tango Show with Optional Dinner from $48 6 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 1,855 reviews Hop-On Hop-Off City Bus Tour from $35 7 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 1,714 reviews Buenos Aires Hop-On Hop-Off Bus and Exclusive Benefits from $35 8 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 1,587 reviews La Boca Guided Walking Tour in English from $13

Every tour on the site, grouped by price. A good Argentine day starts at about the cost of a long lunch.

Under $50

136 tours

City walks, tango seats, delta boats and park entries: the everyday best of the country.

• 1Buenos Aires Small-Group City Tourfrom $38
• 2Piazzolla Tango Show with Optional Dinnerfrom $48
• 3City Highlights Guided Tour with Transferfrom $38

$50–150

230 tours

The full-day classics: glacier balconies, both falls circuits, a cellar day with lunch and a driver.

• 1Local Foodie Adventure in Buenos Aires with Sherpa Food Toursfrom $90
• 2Buenos Aires City Private Tour with Local Guidefrom $126
• 3Perito Moreno Glacier & Optional Boat Cruisefrom $80

$150 and up

142 tours

Ice treks, whale season on the peninsula, private cars for the wine roads and the flights that save a day.

• 1All Day, Small Group, Luxury Wine Tour with Gourmet Lunchfrom $240
• 2Gaucho Day Tour Ranch at an Estancia from Buenos Airesfrom $168
• 3Gaucho Small-Group Full Day at a Farm in Buenos Airesfrom $168

Vineyards and glaciers exist elsewhere. A dance the port barrios invented, an ice field ordinary walkers are allowed to cross, and a gulf whales pick for calving belong to this country alone.

Born in the port barrios

The Tango Floor

Tango came out of the tenements and dockside bars either side of the Río de la Plata in the 1880s and never left. The grand halls run a staged show with dinner and are worth the ticket. The milongas that locals go to start near midnight, cost the price of a drink, and will happily let you sit at the edge of the floor all night watching.

1. 1Piazzolla Tango Show with Optional Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 2,122 reviews
2. 2Tango Show at Tango Porteño & Optional Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 981 reviews
3. 3Intimate Underground Tango Show by Secreto Tango Society★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 893 reviews

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Walk on the ice

The Minitrekking

Perito Moreno is one of the very few glaciers on earth still advancing, and one of fewer still that lets walkers strap on crampons and cross it. A single concession runs the ice treks, they cap by age and by group, and in high summer the slots are gone weeks ahead. The reward is an hour on blue ice, ending with whisky over a chunk of the glacier.

1. 1Perito Moreno Glacier Trekking Tour and Cruise★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 805 reviews
2. 2Torres Del Paine Full Day Overland Truck 4×4 from El Calafate★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 375 reviews
3. 3Tierra del Fuego Emerald Lagoon Trekking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 271 reviews

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Calving season

The Southern Rights

From about June to December southern right whales come into the sheltered gulfs either side of Península Valdés to give birth, near enough to watch from the cliffs at Puerto Pirámides without a boat. A few hours south, Punta Tombo holds one of the largest Magellanic penguin colonies on the continent, and the path runs straight through it.

1. 1The Best of Peninsula Valdés in one day★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 232 reviews
2. 2Cruise Shore Excursion Peninsula Valdes – Pto Madryn – Patagonia – Argentina★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 111 reviews
3. 3Valdes Peninsula: Full Day with Whale Watching★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 98 reviews

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