The falls, the ice, and everything between.
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The days Argentina is famous for.
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.
Balconies first, then the boat
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.
Crampons on, out across the glacier
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.
Upsala, Spegazzini and the icebergs
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.
Buenos Aires gets eaten, walked and danced.
San Telmo on a Sunday, a parrilla working through nine cuts, the milonga that opens when the show closes. Nearly half the tours in Argentina start in this city and the good tables go early.
The tours Argentina books most.
Every review →More travellers take these than anything else in the country, and each one earns the day differently.
1
Local Foodie Adventure in Buenos Aires with Sherpa Food Tours
Taste Argentina’s best bites across Palermo with Sherpa Food Tours, including wine, steak, empanadas, dessert, and local stories.
From · $90
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2
Buenos Aires City Private Tour with Local Guide
from $126
3
Perito Moreno Glacier & Optional Boat Cruise
from $80
4
Buenos Aires Small-Group City Tour
from $38
5
Piazzolla Tango Show with Optional Dinner
from $48
6
Hop-On Hop-Off City Bus Tour
from $35
7
Buenos Aires Hop-On Hop-Off Bus and Exclusive Benefits
from $35
8
La Boca Guided Walking Tour in English
from $13
Mendoza pours in the shadow of Aconcagua.
The bodegas of Luján de Cuyo and the Uco Valley open their tables around midday and nobody rushes you off them. Book the driver with the wine: the road back through the vineyards is no place to be counting glasses.
At Iguazú, the Argentine bank is the wet one.
Argentina holds most of the falls and all the walkways that get you inside them: the Garganta del Diablo catwalk over the drop, the lower circuit under the spray, the boat that drives beneath Salto San Martín. Brazil holds the panorama. Most travellers want both, in that order, and that means two days and a border.
- 1Foz do Iguaçu: Brazil/Argentina Sides Iguazu Falls Day Tourfrom $49
- 2Iguazu Falls Tour, Boat Ride, Train and Safari Truckfrom $159
- 3Argentine Experience: Immersive Dinner & Wine Pairing in Iguazúfrom $65
What a day out costs in Argentina.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. A good Argentine day starts at about the cost of a long lunch.
City walks, tango seats, delta boats and park entries: the everyday best of the country.
The full-day classics: glacier balconies, both falls circuits, a cellar day with lunch and a driver.
Ice treks, whale season on the peninsula, private cars for the wine roads and the flights that save a day.
Only in Argentina.
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.
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.
- 1Piazzolla Tango Show with Optional Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 2,122 reviews
- 2Tango Show at Tango Porteño & Optional Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 981 reviews
- 3Intimate Underground Tango Show by Secreto Tango Society★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 893 reviews
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.
- 1Perito Moreno Glacier Trekking Tour and Cruise★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 805 reviews
- 2Torres Del Paine Full Day Overland Truck 4×4 from El Calafate★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 375 reviews
- 3Tierra del Fuego Emerald Lagoon Trekking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 271 reviews
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.
- 1The Best of Peninsula Valdés in one day★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 232 reviews
- 2Cruise Shore Excursion Peninsula Valdes – Pto Madryn – Patagonia – Argentina★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 111 reviews
- 3Valdes Peninsula: Full Day with Whale Watching★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 98 reviews
Nobody in Buenos Aires eats before ten.
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Book these before you fly to Argentina.
Most of the country can be arranged from your hotel the night before. These cannot. They run on a single concession, one narrow-gauge line, a migration and a room with forty seats in it.
- 01Perito Moreno Glacier Trekking Tour and CruiseOne concession runs the ice trek and it caps by age and group size. Summer dates go weeks ahead.
- 02End of the World Train TicketOne narrow-gauge line, a handful of departures a day, and a cruise call can take the lot.
- 03Valdes Peninsula: Full Day with Whale WatchingThe southern rights are in the gulfs from roughly June to December. Outside the window the boats stay tied up.
- 04Piazzolla Tango Show with Optional DinnerThe rooms worth sitting in are small and the dinner tables go first, Friday and Saturday especially.
Argentina runs on a calendar that flips at the equator.
Patagonia opens from December to March, when the refugios are staffed and the wind still knocks you sideways. The whales are a winter act. Mendoza brings the fruit in during March. Buenos Aires is kindest in the shoulder months, and the falls run hardest after the summer rain. Pick the region to suit the month, not the other way round.
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Salta & Jujuy82 tours
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Bariloche126 tours
Puerto Madryn42 tours
El Calafate235 tours
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