Tour to Brazil "Ice to Sun" with Iguazu and Patagonia on 10 days

Brazil

10 days / 9 nights

Buenos Aires (2N) + Calafate (2N) + Foz de Iguazu (2N) + Rio de Janeiro (3N)

Day 1: Buenos Aires
Arrival at Buenos Aires airport. Private transfer with driver to the hotel.

Day 2: Buenos Aires
After breakfast, our guide will pick you up at your hotel for a half day city tour in Buenos Aires.
This panoramic tour will take you through the highlights of South America's most European and cosmopolitan city. We'll drive along 9 de Julio Avenue where the renowned Colón Theater and the Obelisk, symbols of our city, are located. We'll visit Plaza de Mayo, surrounded by important historic buildings like the Casa Rosada, the Cathedral and the City Hall. We'll also visit Plaza San Martin, Alvear and Plaza del Congreso. The tour will drive us along the old fashion Avenida de Mayo and the dynamic Avenida Corrientes. Explore neighborhoods filled with colors and history, like La Boca and San Telmo, and the sumptuous neighborhoods of Palermo, Recoleta and the modern Puerto Madero, a busy gastronomic and entertainment area. In the evening visit to an unforgettable tango show with dinner. (Group tour without a guide)
In the evening enjoy an amazing Tango Show and Dinner. Tango is still alive. A good way of penetrating its spirit is visiting one of the restaurants that offers tango shows of an excellent level, to enjoy tango´s sensual magnetism taken to the stage by some of the best dancers, singers and musicians in Buenos Aires! After a delicious dinner, you will follow a spectacular presentation of acclaimed popular and sensuous Tango, performed by the world's best. It is the music of Buenos Aires par excellence. Tango is felt in the air of the city, as humidity!

Day 3: Buenos Aires / Calafate
Breakfast at the hotel. Private transfer to the airport to board flight to Calafate. Arrival in Calafate. Private transfer with driver to the hotel.

Day 4: Calafate
Breakfast at the hotel. Group tour to the Perito Moreno glacier in SIB with an English speaking guide.
Perito Moreno Glacier - a magnificent giant ice glacier   the length of the river   100 km, a height greater than 60 m and a width of about 4 km, which is slowly slipping from the Andean peaks in the water of the Argentine Lake. Hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world come here to admire the spectacular sight as well as the powerful crumbling ice walls of the glacier which slowly fall under water, raising up huge waves.

Day 5: Calafate – Iguaçu
Breakfast in the hotel. Private transfer without guide to the airport to board your flight to Iguazu.
Meeting with driver and transfer to the selected hotel.

Day 6: Iguaçu
Breakfast. Excursion to the Argentine waterfall with a guide. 
You will walk on paths through the falls which give you the opportunity to have a look under the falls. You feel the strength of the falling water from up close and enjoy the 55.500 hectares natural park surrounding this spectacular beauty! Within the park, take the train to the marvelous devil's throat the strongest of all the waterfalls. Stand directly above the falling water and admire the strength of this natural phenomenon. Transfer back to the hotel.

Day 7: Iguaçu - Rio de Janeiro
Breakfast in the hotel. Our guide will pick up you to start the Brazilian Falls excursion. The waterfalls of Foz de Iguassu, located on the border of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, are 275 huge water streams falling from a terrible height. Waterfalls are located in the national park with unique flora and fauna, arose as a result of a volcanic eruption and displacement of earth layers. The name of the waterfalls in translation from Guarani means "big water". 275 waterfalls, each has its own name, are thrown with a roar in the gorge “Devil's Throat”. The contrast between the calm and even lazy flow of the Iguassu River above the waterfalls and the powerful overthrow of the seething streams of water from a height of 72 meters into the abyss is amazing. You can stand for hours without looking up, contemplating this spectacle and thinking about the magnificence and eternity of our universe. After the tour you will be transferred to the airport with a driver to board your flight to Rio de Janeiro.

Day 8: Rio de Janeiro.
Breakfast at the hotel. Half-day excursion to the Sugar Loaf with a guide. The first stop is the mountain Urca, with wide viewing area, where you can eat in a restaurant or have a drink at the bar. The mountain Sugar Loaf offers a beautiful view of Rio, Copacabana beach, the bay, the surrounding mountains, the islands in the ocean, bridge Niteroi, a statue of Christ. Then you will go by car to the central regions of the old Rio, where you can admire several ancient churches, monasteries, the main cathedral of the city, as well as buildings, built in colonial style.

Day 9: Rio de Janeiro.
After breakfast we go on a city tour and visit Christ the Redeemer with an English speaking guide. Where you can admire several ancient churches, monasteries, the main cathedral of the city, as well as buildings, built in colonial style. Arriving at the station, from where we take the cable car which takes us up Corcovado Mountain through the jungle to the top of Corcovado hill. Both sides of the railway offer spectacular views of the forest Tijuca, which is inhabited by monkeys and other exotic animals and birds. At the top of Corcovado hill, at an altitude of 700 m above sea level, stands the symbol of Rio – The Statue of Christ the Redeemer (38 m), which was built in 1931. From the top of Corcovado you can enjoy breathtaking panoramas of the metropolis and its surroundings: Niteroi Bridge, Guanabara Bay, the Botanical Garden, the world's largest stadium Maracana, the Sugar Loaf and many other breathtaking sights.

Day 10: Rio de Janeiro
Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer from Rio de Janeiro Airport without a guide to board your international flights.