Two great tours to enjoy wildlife in and around Buenos Aires
Southern Pampas with Punta Rasa 3 Days – 2 Nights
Northern Pampas with Otamendi and Ceibas 3 Days – 2 Nights
Both tours start and end in Buenos Aires
Tours run on request – Prices based on group size.
The Pampa is an extensive humid plain shared by Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. In Argentina, the Pampa Grassland covers an area of more than 50 million hectares in the central part of the country. This unique habitat is well represented in the Province of Buenos Aires, where birders and naturalists can enjoy nature in a diversity of wildlife reserves spread throughout its territory. There is no need to go too far from Buenos Aires City to see some of these reserves, and actually Costanera Sur, one of the most well known birding spots in South America, is located right in front of the business district of this city.
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Condors and Glaciers of the Patagonian Andes
4 Days – 3 Nights
Starts and ends in El Calafate
Tour runs on request – Prices based on group size.
The emblematic and worldwide known Moreno Glacier is the dramatic evidence of a remote era in which Patagonia was covered by glaciers. The 717,800 hectares of Los Glaciares National Park harbor this -at present the only advancing glacier in Argentina- and other 47 huge glaciers. Experience the southern Patagonian wilderness, a land where ancient Southern Beech forests, endless arid plateaus and impressive inland lakes give frame to the most incredible array of Patagonian wildlife. Los Glaciares National Park has been declared a Worldwide Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO.
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Nature at its best in the uttermost part of th Earth
4 Days – 3 Nights
Starts and ends in Ushuaia
Tour runs on request – Prices based on group size.
Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of America, is a large archipelago spread out in the southern boundaries of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Its main island, called Isla Grande, is shared by Argentina and Chile. On the northern shore of the Beagle Channel, Ushuaia -the southernmost city on Earth and the capital of the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego- is the gate to the most spectacular sceneries of them all. Luxuriant Southern Beech and Winter’s Bark forests are home to outstanding birds, like the Magellanic Woodpecker, and the shores and small islets of the channel hold dozens of nesting colonies of seabirds.
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Where Dusky Swifts dive through foaming falls
4 Days – 3 Nights
Starts and ends in Iguazú (Argentina) or Iguaçu (Brazil)
Tour runs on request – Prices based on group size.
The most important forest south of the Amazon is formed by a set of subtropical rainforests including the Brazilian “Mata Atlántica” and the Interior Atlantic Forest in the Argentine province of Misiones. These forests host dozens of unique species of orchids, small primates, bats of rare habits and endemic birds. The most remarkable natural wonder of Misiones is Iguazú National Park, with its unparalleled falls. Here, the Iguazú River falls 70 meters down, forming a fan of cascades with more than 250 individual falls.
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The Valdés Peninsula & Punta Tombo
4 Days – 3 Nights
Starts and ends in Puerto Madryn or Trelew
Tour runs on request – Prices based on group size.
Northeastern Patagonia is a semi-arid steppe, outlined by the deep blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean. In the heart of the Argentine Patagonia, the Province of Chubut holds the most spectacular natural treasures of them all. The Valdés Peninsula is home and breeding ground for a great diversity of marine mammals. Punta Tombo is for far the biggest of all nesting colonies of Magellanic Penguins on Earth, with more than half a million nesting birds, and it is certainly a magic place where visitors can enjoy walking right next to these amusing penguins.
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