El Calafate countryside balcony tour by truck
Location: El Calafate, Argentina
Activity: Walking Tours
Languages spoken: English, Spanish
Duration: 4 hrs
Difficulty: Easy
Good to know: You can only buy this activity for 10 persons at a time. If you require more places, kindly place more orders.
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- Available from: 18/11/2024
Highlights
- Enjoy the marvelous landscapes of El Calafate
- Have a privileged view of Lago Argentino
- Go back in time with Laberinto de las Piedras
- See Mt Fitz Roy and Mt Torre in El Chalten
All about the trip
Three daily outings, the tour departs from the different hotels from El Calafate and takes 35km over the mountain line located behind the town. The track takes us to marvelous landscapes with an incredible variety of vegetation in high altitudes.
Reaching 1050 m over the sea level, our first stop is a natural viewpoint where we will enjoy the most stunning sights of El Calafate and the central part of the Lake Argentino. We will also enjoy sights of the magnificent Andes mountain range at the back and at certain times, the area of accumulation of the glaciers, towards Boca Del Diablo, (the narrowest part of the lake, on the road to the Upsala arm).
Even more, If we have a clear and sunny day we will be able to see Mt Fitz Roy and Mt Torre in El Chalten and maybe the condor, master of our sky, let us see its flight. An unforgettable sight.
Afterward, we continue our way up to the Laberinto de las Piedras, point only reachable by Mil Outdoor. This is a formation of the Cretaceous period, 85 million years ago, once a river, nowadays, fossils are found to take us back and make us witnesses of the history.
A snack will be served at the Huyliche restaurant and from there we will start our descent by the north slope of the mount to the Piedra de Los Sombreros, exotic iron formations only found in four places around the world.
After this trip to remote eras of the history of the planet, we return to El Calafate with the omnipresent view of the Lago Argentino.
What is included in the price
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off from hotels in El Calafate
- Snack
- Bilingual English and Spanish speaking guide
What is not included in the price
- Optional gratuities
- Transfer from the airport to the hotel
- Transfer from the hotel to the airport
Instructions
The hotel pick-up will be 20 minutes before the scheduled activity. Your exact pick-up time will be confirmed on the previous day of the tour.
Please note that there are some hotels in the city that are not included in our pickup routes. If your hotel is not included, we will contact you to inform you of the closest pick-up location. We ask you to wait for the guide in the lobby of the indicated hotel.
This activity is organised by Gray Line Argentina, 4113 Staghorn Lane, Weston, 33331, Argentina, +54 911 6215 4101, p.stefanyuk@graylineargentina.com.
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Contact
Do you have a question or need more information about the activity?
You can reach our European office between 9am and 5pm CET on weekdays and between 11am and 5pm on weekends and holidays.
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