NATURAL TREASURES ESTEROS IGUAZU
ARGENTINA
Beyond Buenos Aires – Natural Treasures
Posadas -Esteros Del Iberá- Puerto Iguazú- Buenos Aires
Eight Days
DAY 1: Arrival in Buenos Aires
Reception at the airport and transfer to the hotel. Check –in. Half-day city tour visiting the main attractions in Buenos Aires: The National Congress, Plaza de Mayo, Casa Rosada, the Cathedral and the Cabildo, San Telmo,La Boca, Palermo, Puerto Madero and Recoleta. Return to the hotel. Overnight Accommodations
DAY 2: Buenos Aires
Today is Fiesta Gaucha!. It is an excursion that allows the visitors to admire the traditional dances, the typical local activities and enjoy Argentine songs and dishes. Apart from the quincho, where we will have lunch, you can visit the original house of the estancia, which has been turn into a gaucho museum. The excursion develops as follows: the guests are greeted at arrival with empanadas and wine, spare time for horse and carriage riding, visiting the museum, etc. We will later have an exquisite asado, with salads and beverages. After lunch, we will enjoy a show of traditional songs and dances. Afterwards, we will have coffee and pastelitos (local pastries) and we will see a demonstration of tropilla and carrera de sortijas (traditional races).
Overnight accommodations (B/L)
DAY 3: Buenos Aires / Posadas
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport to your flight to Posadas. Reception at Posadas airport and transfer to the inn. Depart from the inn for a tour through the Iberá Swamps. Boat excursion to observe the flora and fauna of the place. The visitors will be able to watch the marsh deer, yacarés (caimans), Paraná otters and more than 350 bird species. Trekking and visit to the Centro de Interpretación.
Overnight accommodations (Full board)
DAY 4: Iberá Swamps
Natural – Cultural visit to the Camba Trapo marshland where the transition area of the Paraná Jungle and the Eastern Chaco can be appreciated, with its picturesque flooded Caranday palm trees, refuge area for many nocturnal animals such as the black tatouay (naked tailed armadillo), skunks, aguará pope (raccoon) and foxes, among others Horse ride along the south end of the Iberá lagoon.
Overnight accommodations (Full Board)
DAY 5: Iberá Swamps / Puerto Iguazú
During the morning transfer in a private vehicle to Puerto Iguazú. On the way, we will visit the San Ignacio Jesuit Ruins, to admire the extraordinary prosperity reached by the native civilization under the Jesuit social order, which allowed them to achieve a great material and spiritual development. We will continue to Puerto Iguazú, traveling through the marvelous landscapes of the Misiones rainforest.
Overnight accommodations. (B).
DAY 6: Iguazu Falls
Full day excursion to the Argentine waterfalls, traveling in the Ecologic Train along its railroads: “Visitors Center”, “Waterfalls”, and “Garganta del Diablo”, starting the circuits in each one (Inferior, Superior and Garganta del Diablo). Optional: Great Adventure or Nautical Adventure. Overnight accommodations (B)
DAY 7: Iguazu Falls / Buenos Aires
Transfer to the airport to board flight to Buenos Aires. Reception at Buenos Aires airport and transfer to hotel. Join us for an evening of Tango and dinner; transfers included.
Overnight accommodations (B/D)
DAY 8: Depart Buenos Aires
Transfer hotel to airport for your flight to your next destination. (B)