19 days Brazil and Argentina Discovery
The majestic Iguazu falls on the Brazil-Argentina border
This fascinating tour takes you through the steamy jungles of the Amazon basin to Glaciers and National Parks at the end of the world; from the Patagonian Andean forest to the foot stomping nightlife in Rio and Buenos Aires; and finally to an increadible waterfall in front of which Angel Falls and the Niagara are said to resemble a faucet and a flush respectively!
Highlights: Canoe tour for alligator spotting and nature hikes and piranha fishing in the Amazon, city tours of Rio and Buenos Aires, full day excursion in Tierra del Fuego National Park and sailing along the Beaggle Channel, full day excursion ex-Ushiaia across the Andean mountain range to the lakes; glacier excursions in Patagonia; and finally to the Iguazzu falls.
DAY 1: SAN PABLO Arrive to the airport, reception and transfer to the Hotel
DAY 2: SAN PABLO / MANAOSBreakfast at the Hotel. Transfer to the airport, flight to Manaos. Pick-up at 13h30 in Manaos´s airport and transfer to the Amazon Ecopark Jungle Lodge
Check-in/ welcome drink after which guests will be shown to the room. Following visit to the Monkey Jungle. Dinner and evening tour by canoe for Alligator Spotting .Overnight at the lodge.
DAY 3: MANAOSBreakfast followed by a Nature Hike. Lunch. After a short rest, visit the home of local Amazonian residents (‘caboclos’) with opportunity for fishing. Dinner. Overnight at the lodge.
DAY 4: MANAOSBreakfast and full day tour to the Meeting of the Waters with lunch. Optional canoe ride with an opportunity for Piranha Fishing(*). Arrival at the lodge by 17h30. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
DAY 5: MANAOS / RIO DE JANEIROBreakfast .Free time to enjoy natural pools and swimming at the river bank. Check-out at 11h30 and transfer to Manaus. Fly to Rio de Janeiro. Arrive, reception and transfer to the hotel. Rest of the day at your leisure.
(*) canoe ride with opportunity for Piranha Fishing .
(*) This activity is not included at Package rate.
DAY 6: RIO DE JANEIROBreakfast at the hotel. Half day excursion to the Corcovado.
CORCOVADO From any place of the city, the visitor can see the most beautiful postcard of Rio de Janeiro: Christ the Redeemer statue in the mountain of Corcovado, located at 710 meters above the sea level and inaugurated in 1931.
This tour begins in Cosme Velho's neighborhood from where the cog train starts a trip through the Tijuca Forest, the largest urban forest in the world, up to the statue.
Once there, a panoramic and extraordinary view of Rio will be seeing including the Sugar Loaf, the Guanabara Bay, the beaches of Southern Zone and the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon.
After the visit of the Corcovado, the tour will continue to São Conrado area with a brief stop at the Pepino beach from where you can appreciate the flight of the hang gliding .
DAY 7: RIO DE JANEIROBreakfast at the hotel. Half day excursion to the Sugarloaf.
SUGAR LOAF This tour begins with a city panoramic view through downtown Rio, passing by the Sambodrome, the Metropolitan Cathedral, in pyramid form, with internal diameter of 96 meters and height of 80 meters. Get to know the traditional Cinelândia square with the historical buildings, the Municipal Theater, the National Library and the National Museum of Fine Arts. By taking the Aterro do Flamengo, you will be taken to the neighborhood of Urca where it is located one of the largest symbols of the city: the Sugar Loaf. This visit is made in two steps by cable car. The first cable car takes passengers to Urca Hill which is 215 meters high and from where one can have a beautiful view from the Guanabara Bay and its islands, the Rio-Niterói bridge and Corcovado hill. From this stage, a second cable car will be taken up to the top with 395 meters to find a splendid view from Copacabana beach, the Santa Cruz fortress and some beaches of Niterói.
DAY 8: RIO DE JANEIROBreakfast at the Hotel. Day at your leisure.
DAY 9: RIO DE JANEIRO / BUENOS AIRESBreakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport. Fly to Buenos Aires. Arrive and reception in the airport, transfer to the hotel. In the afternoon, private city tour. In the evening dinner and tango show at ‘La Ventana’
CITY TOUR We will discover the magic of Buenos Aires in a 3 hours and a half city tour in which you will visit the outstanding building of the National Congress, the ancient Council, the Metropolitan Cathedral and the Capitol (better known as "Pink House"). The buildings that surround the "Mayo Square" consist of the above mentioned spots. The tour also includes the magnificent areas of Recoleta and Palermo, with their beautiful parks and buildings, the Colon theatre, one of the five most important Opera theatres of the world and many other buildings and palaces of architectural, historical and cultural value. We will visit San Telmo area, one of the most antique districts of the city, as well as the Boca district, with its "caminito"- a picturesque pedestrian street, where you will find its colourful metal sheet tenements. Finally, the tour will lead us to the recently recycled district of Puerto Madero, old area of the Buenos Aires port. The tour also will include a visit to the Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore, awarded by The Guardian newspaper as the second of the ten most beautiful bookstores of the world. Over there, in its building inaugurated in 1919 and below its dome, among balconies and intact ornamentation, the coffee and reading areas are found.
DAY 10: BUENOS AIRES / USHUAIABreakfast in the hotel, transfer to the airport. Fly to Ushuaia. Arrive and reception at the airport, transfer to the Hotel
DAY 11: USHUAIABreakfast at the hotel. Full day excursion to the National Park and Sailing along the Beaggle Channel.
NATIONAL PARK OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO Inside this national park, next to the city of Ushuaia (just 6,87 miles away), we will be able to watch lakes, small lakes and rivers. Here guanacos, red foxes, beavers and condors live together among forests of cherry trees, lenga trees and Antarctic Beeches (in Spanish ñires). It is the only national park of the country that has a marine coast. During the tour we go deep into the rugged topography and along the crossing mountain roads towards the ‘Lapataia’ River, where we have an excellent view of the Green Small Lake and the Lapataia Bay. Over there we will have a clear idea of the original inhabitants (Onas or Yamanes), since the place keeps several archaeological zones. During the tour, we will visit the Train Station of the Southern Fuegian Railway - Station of the end of the World - and we will make a stop (optionally) to take the train that covers the National Park along forests and peat bogs. The narrow gauged convoy will guide us through the old alignment that the prison train had, which was used for the work of the prisoners.
SAILING ALONG THE BEAGLE CHANNEL The tour starts at the tourist port of Ushuaia. From this site, the landscape is a combination of sea and mountains and the mounts of Olivia and Five Brothers as well as the Ranchs Fique and Túnel can be admired.
From there, the tour continues to the centre of the Beagle Channel, reaching the Lighthouse Les Eclaireurs, in the homonym archipelago. This lighthouse sometimes is mistaken with the one of ‘the end of the world’, which is located at the States Island and shows the sailors the access to the Ushuaia bay. Heading to the Wolves Island, it is possible to sail in complete silence around the island and observe this beautiful colony of sea lions - the South American sea lions and the South American fur seals- in its permanent habitat.
The catamaran continues the trip towards the Birds Island, where one can match the majesty of the Imperial and Magallanes Cormorants, albatross, petrel birds, Squas birds and 20 different species of seabirds. Later on, sailing through Paso Chico, we will make the return trip to Ushuaia, with a view of the beautiful frame that Martial Mount and the homonym glacier give to the city.
DAY 12: USHUAIABreaksfast at the hotel. Full day excursion Escondido and Fagnano Lake.
ESCONDIDO AND FAGNANO LAKES We leave Ushuaia to the north, to reach the Fuegian Andes, through valleys covered by peat bogs. At the Garibaldi Pass (450 metres above the sea level), we will cross the Andean Mountain Range, with the incomparable view of the Hided Lake and Fagnano Lake. This great spit of sweet water, 62.5 miles long, is able to be sailed in spite of its strong winds and it is also good for fishing. From there, we will start going down and after visiting the Petrel lodging house over the coast of the Hided Lake, we will continue until reaching the zone of the sawmills, particularly the MartÃnez one, currently deactivated and located over the coast of the Fagnano lake. From that point, we will start the return trip to the city, making a stop to taste the typical and famous barbecue made of Fuegian lamb.
DAY 13: USHUAIA / EL CALAFATEBreakfast in the hotel, transfer to the airport. Fly to El Calafate. Arrive and reception at the airport, transfer to Hotel
DAY 14: EL CALAFATEBreakfast at the hotel. Full day excursión to the glacier Perito Moreno.
PERITO MORENO Leaving Calafate we must cover 50 miles to reach the National Park (declared by UNESCO as Humanity Patrimony). Once inside the park we will be able to observe the arboreal vegetation of the Patagonia Andean forest, which is mainly from the ‘notofagus’ family. Further on, we will have access to the footbridges of the glacier, with fantastic panoramic viewpoints. In this area there exists a big quantity of glaciers, and the most famous is the Perito Moreno: it has a frontage of 3.12 miles and is 60 metres high above the level of the Argentine Lake, and a total surface that exceeds the one from several big cities of the world. It is one of the few glaciers that is still in full advance. During any season of the year the visitor can enjoy its constant collapses of ice towers that break into multiple ice floes. In variable periods of time, one unique phenomenon that calls experts and tourists around the world is performed: the breakage of the natural dry dock that the glacier produces while advancing over the river. This phenomenon is a spectacle of wonderful and incomparable characteristics. The park also offers alternative and optional tours, such as tours to the lakes or mini-trekking along the Perito Moreno glacier.
DAY 15: EL CALAFATEBreakfast in the hotel. Full day excursión Upsala and Onelly Glaciers
UPSALA AND ONELLY GLACIERS We leave early in the morning towards Puerto Bandera, to get on board a sea craft that covers the north branch of the Argentine Lake to reach the Upsala, the Onelli and the Spegazzini glaciers. The sailing is done among adrift ice floes, until reaching as first stop the Upsala glacier, which has a surface of 590 km2, and is one of the most extensive glaciers of America. After covering the front area, we head to Onelli Bay. Over there we disembark and make a walk of about 800 metres inside the forest, until reaching the homonym small lake, where small ice floes make a huge white carpet. From that spot we can observe the Onelli, Bolado and Agassiz glaciers.
After lunch, we resume the sailing to the Spegazzini Glacier, which is the highest of all (135 metres high). Return to the docks by the end of afternoon.
DAY 16: EL CALAFATE / BUENOS AIRESBreakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport. Fly to Buenos Aires. Arrive, reception and transfer to the hotel Ayres de Recoleta.
DAY 17: BUENOS AIRES / PUERTO IGUAZÚBreakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport. Fly to Puerto Iguazú. Arrive and reception at the Iguazu´s airport, transfer to the Iguazu Jungle Lodge. In the afternoon, half day excurtion to the brasilian falls.
BRASILIAN FALLS Visit to the National Park do Iguazú, in Brazil: It is a giant balcony from where the waterfalls in all their extent can be viewed, having also the choice of observing them from more distant and wider angles. The area to be covered is made of an only circuit of footbridges that is located in front of the falls, and offers a panoramic view which is really astonishing. The tour offers a wide route from which all the splendour of the landscape falls and waterfalls can be observed.
DAY 18: PUERTO IGUAZUBreakfast at the hotel. Full day excursion to the argentinean side of the falls.
ARGENTINEAN FALLS Tour to the National Park of Iguazú: the visitor will find more than 270 water falls along the cliffs and islets, split into a half moon that is the shape of this beautiful geographical feature. From the visitors” centre, the paths can be covered on foot or a picturesque little train can be chosen for that purpose. The National Park has two circuits to be covered: one at a lower surface and the other at the upper one. In the lower circuit, one can reach the base of the falls, where the magnificence of their beauty can be appreciated. It is worth it to travel by boat towards the San Martin Island. In the upper circuit, the tour is a bit more sedentary where unique landscapes can be viewed from footbridges and viewpoints, which makes the tour an unforgettable experience.
DAY 19: PUERTO IGUAZU / SAN PABLOBreakfast in the hotel, transfer to the airport in Foz de Iguazu. Fly to San Pablo.
INTERNAL FLIGHT ROUTING: SAO PAOLO- MANAUS- RIO- BA- USHUAIA- EL CALAFATE - BA- IGUAZU - SAO PAOLO
Cost on request
Other Itineraries:
11 Days Classic Brazil Tour
13 Days Colonial Towns Tour 
