PATAGONIA

Patagonia, endless void, comprising it all, boundless steppes, granite peaks soaring to the clear blue sky, vast expanse of ice, great deep blue and emerald lakes ... all that and…much more for the attentive visitor to enjoy !
Vast, wild open spaces, beaten by the winds, by the dazzling light, give the feeling of being in a land at the “end of the world”, where sharp peaks, deep valleys, glaciers, pine forests, highlands, steppes and lakes, offer unique and breathtaking landscapes.
Patagonia, is the kingdom of wilderness, where time seems to stand still and where its incredible nature is there to be discovered.

TIERRA DEL FUEGO and USHUAIA

About 3,200 km from Buenos Aires, in Tierra del Fuego, extreme strip of land south of the American continent, is placed Ushuaia that shares with Puerto Williams a small Chilean city, the title of southernmost city of the inhabited world.
Officially founded in 1884, is nowadays a very important strategic, commercial and industrial centre for the region, directly on the shores of the Beagle Channel is characterized by a sub antarctic climate, mitigated by the influence of  the two oceans, with temperatures ranging from -10 ° in the winter to 25 ° in summer, its landscape is very varied, with a combination of mountains, glaciers, sea and forests .
Best time to visit is from November to April.

PENINSULA VALDES

Located in the north-eastern area, of the region of Chubut, this vast wildlife reserve of some 4000 square kilometre, where only one small village (Puerto Piramides) is found, is the undisputed realm of whales, penguins, elephant seals and sea lions, sole and undisturbed inhabitants of that strip of wild untouched land, of great interest, not far, is found the world’s biggest natural reserve of Punta Tombo, where Magellan penguins, by the thousands, find refuge for their mating and reproduction season.

BUENOS AIRES

Dating back to 1536, Buenos Aires had a remarkable growth, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, when it became one of the most important cities of Latin America, last to become capital among the great South American metropolis, charming with its lush parks and tree lined avenues, with an intense cultural life desplayed in its many theatres, museums and exhibition centre, with a rather interesting architecture, where historic buildings of European tradition, are often combined, with modern attractive buildings, Plaza de Mayo, is the heart of the city, where are found: the Cabildo, the Metropolitan cathedral, and the presidential palace, the famous Casa Rosada; of particular interest are some of its quarters or “barrios” as they are locally called, such as: “la boca” notorious for being the first settlement of Italian immigrants and for being the cradle of  one of the city’s top soccer teams; Palermo, definitely one of the most fashionable residential area in town; Puerto Madero, new and very lively with its many night spots and restaurants, for a good meal of the best meat in the world, accompanied by a great local wine.

THE GLACIERS

One of the most magnificent natural sights in the world awaits the visitor, when reaching the vast area of perpetual snow, icebergs, primeval forests, lakes and deep woods, originating from a giant ice cap at the top of the Andes from which slide 47 of the largest valley glaciers, in the rest of the world glaciers are normally found above 2.500 meter of altitude, but at the Patagonian latitude, they start sliding much lower, like 1.500 meter, arriving as low as 200 meter above sea level. Best bases, to visit and explore some of the most famous glaciers in the world, such as: Perito Moreno, Upsala, Viedma, Grey and Tyndall, are the towns of El Calafate on the shore of the Argentino lake and the town of El Chalten beneath the Fitz Roy mountain.