The most-booked day in the country★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · Perito Moreno Glacier & Optional Boat Cruise
Argentina makes you fly. Here is what to book at each end.
Which side of Iguazú to give the day to. Whether the glacier justifies El Calafate. What a Mendoza bodega lunch really costs, and which tango house takes the dinner seriously. Reviews of every tour you can book in Argentina.
The glacier, a tango house, the falls, lunch in a Mendoza bodega.
Four bookings a first Argentine trip gets built around. What each one costs, and what the people who went say about it.
- 01The ice dayPerito Moreno Glacier & Optional Boat CruiseSteel walkways face the glacier from four hundred metres, and the boat gets you under the wall. Take the earliest bus out of El Calafate.
02The tango nightPiazzolla Tango Show with Optional DinnerA full orchestra on Avenida Corrientes, with the option of steak and Malbec from eight. The dinner seats are closer to the floor.
03The wet oneGran Aventura Boat and Argentinian Falls TourThe Argentine catwalks in the morning, then the launch that runs straight into the spray under the falls. Bring a change of clothes.
04The bodega lunch3 Wineries, Olive Oil Factory Tour & TastingThree Mendoza wineries, an olive oil press and a long table at the end of it. Cheaper than a night out in Buenos Aires.
Nothing in Argentina is near anything else in Argentina.
The country runs 3,700 km from the Bolivian border to the Beagle Channel, and the best of it sits at the far ends. Every region below is a domestic flight out of Buenos Aires, which means the itinerary is decided at the booking stage and not on the ground.
Every Argentine day out →- 1h 45flight IguazúThe catwalks, the boat under the falls, the jungle train. from $18
- 1h 50flight MendozaMalbec, an olive press and Aconcagua on the skyline. from $34
- 2h 10flight SaltaRed canyons, a salt pan and the painted hills of Jujuy. from $29
- 2h 20flight BarilocheSeven lakes, a chairlift and chocolate on the main street. from $25
- 3h 15flight El CalafatePerito Moreno, and the Fitz Roy day beyond it. from $75
- 3h 30flight UshuaiaThe Beagle Channel, the penguins, the end of Route 3. from $20
Buenos Aires is flat, walkable and never in a hurry to eat.
Everything in Buenos Aires →Palermo for the cafés, San Telmo on a Sunday, La Boca in daylight only, and a tango house somewhere after ten. Almost all of it is walkable, and the guided mornings cost less here than anywhere else in the country.
Dinner at the table, or just the show
Every big house sells the night twice: a seat for the show alone, or the whole evening with steak and Malbec from eight. The dinner tables sit closer to the floor, which is the real reason to pay for one.
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Caminito first, San Telmo on a Sunday
La Boca is three painted blocks and a stadium, and the guides keep you on them for good reason. San Telmo is the opposite: a whole quarter of antique stalls that only comes alive on Sunday.
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The delta, where the city runs out
The Paraná breaks into a thousand channels an hour above the centre and the only way around is by launch. Rowing clubs, stilt houses, a fruit market at the pier, back in time for dinner.
See the full list →Ice, penguins or the end of the road. Patagonia makes you choose.
El Calafate is the glacier and Ushuaia is the water, and they are a long way apart even from each other. Four kinds of southern day out, what it costs to get on each one, and what you actually see.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · Perito Moreno Glacier Trekking Tour and Cruise
The glacier balconyWalkways along five kilometres of ice wall that calves while you watch.
The end of Route 3Lenga forest, Lapataia Bay and the sign where the highway stops.
The Beagle ChannelSea lion rocks, cormorant colonies and the lighthouse at the end.
Walking with penguinsA catamaran to Martillo Island, where the colony ignores you completely.
Every day out from Ushuaia →
Argentina’s most popular days out.
Every tour on the site →The tours more travellers take than anything else in the country, and what earns each of them the slot.
1
Perito Moreno Glacier & Optional Boat Cruise
Visit Perito Moreno Glacier from El Calafate, explore 4 km of boardwalks, and add a close-up boat ride in Los Glaciares National Park.
From · $80
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2
Piazzolla Tango Show with Optional Dinner
from $48
3
City Highlights Guided Tour with Transfer
from $38
4
Hop-On Hop-Off City Bus Tour
from $35
5
La Boca Guided Walking Tour in English
from $13
6
Brazil/Argentina Sides Iguazu Falls Day Tour
from $49
7
La Recoleta Cemetery Guided Tour in English
from $13
8
Tango Show at Tango Porteño & Optional Dinner
from $40
Iguazú is two countries, two days and one very wet boat.
The Argentine side puts you on catwalks over the Devil’s Throat and takes most of a day. The Brazilian side hands you the whole postcard from across the gorge in three hours. The launch that drives into the spray is the part nobody regrets paying for.
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Argentina eats late, and it eats standing next to the fire.
Uco Valley bodegas build a four-course lunch around the tasting, the Cafayate vines sit at 1,700 metres, and an estancia asado goes on the coals at noon for a table at three. Book the winery lunches before you fly — the good ones run a single sitting a day.
- 13 Wineries, Olive Oil Factory Tour & Tastingfrom $34
- 29-Course Argentine Meat Tasting at Fogón Asadofrom $93
- 3Gaucho and Ranch Day Tourfrom $168
Salt flats, painted hills and a road that climbs to 4,000 metres.
Salta sits at the bottom of the best driving country in Argentina. North through Purmamarca to the Hill of Seven Colours and over the Cuesta de Lipán to a salt pan the size of a city, or south through the red canyons to the Cafayate vines.
What a day out in Argentina actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. A guided morning in Buenos Aires costs less than lunch. A glacier costs what a glacier costs.
Barrio walks, tango seats, the Argentine side of the falls and half a day among the Mendoza bodegas.
Full days: the glacier balcony, the Beagle Channel, Salinas Grandes and the estancia asado.
Ice trekking on Perito Moreno, private guides, Torres del Paine and the long Patagonian drives.
- 1Gaucho and Ranch Day Tourfrom $168
- 2Perito Moreno Glacier Trekking Tour and Cruisefrom $396
- 3Penguin Watching Tour by Catamaranfrom $180
Three things that happen in Argentina and nowhere else.
Steak and mountains exist everywhere. A glacier you can hear breaking, a dance invented in a port city, and a working ranch that feeds forty people off one fire do not.
The Perito Moreno rupture
Most of the world’s glaciers are retreating. This one keeps pushing across the Brazo Rico arm of Lago Argentino until it dams the water behind it, the lake rises, the ice is undercut, and every few years the whole front collapses in an arch. The walkways face it from four hundred metres, and the sound arrives a beat after the ice does.
- 1Perito Moreno Glacier & Optional Boat Cruise★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 2,586 reviews
- 2Perito Moreno Glacier Trekking Tour and Cruise★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 805 reviews
- 3Glaciers Gourmet Experience – Full Day Cruise★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 285 reviews
Tango, and where it is actually danced
Tango came out of the tenements around the docks and spent decades being disreputable before the theatres claimed it. The big houses on Avenida Corrientes put a full orchestra behind a two-hour show with dinner. The milongas in San Telmo are just rooms where people dance until three. Both are real, and they cost very different money.
- 1Piazzolla Tango Show with Optional Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 2,122 reviews
- 2Tango Show at Tango Porteño & Optional Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 981 reviews
- 3Madero Tango Show with Optional Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 748 reviews
A day on the estancia
Ninety minutes west of Buenos Aires the city stops and the grass keeps going. The estancia day runs to a fixed shape: horses in the morning, empanadas out of a clay oven, an asado that takes four hours to reach the table, and folk dancing nobody warns you about.
- 19-Course Argentine Meat Tasting at Fogón Asado★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 826 reviews
- 2Gaucho and Ranch Day Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 809 reviews
- 3Gaucho Day Trip from Buenos Aires: Santa Susana Ranch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 272 reviews
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By kind of day — ice, vines, water or dance floor
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