Plan a trip
An empty, straight Patagonian highway runs through low steppe toward the jagged snowy Fitz Roy massif under a blue sky.

Sample journeys
Start and end in Buenos Aires

5 routes

Trips that work.

Routes built around the distances, not against them. Every one can be changed.

  • 12 nights
  • 13 nights
  • 14 nights
  • 11 nights
  • 7 nights

Each of these starts and ends in Buenos Aires, where international flights arrive. Under each one is its travel budget: how much of the trip goes on moving between places.

Journeys.(05)

Side by side.

  1. 01

    The Big Contrast

    City, jungle falls and Patagonian ice in under two weeks. The classic first trip, paced so you are not living in airports.

    1. Buenos Aires 3 nights
    2. Iguazú 2 nights
    3. El Calafate 2 nights
    4. El Chaltén 3 nights
    5. El Calafate 1 night
    6. Buenos Aires 1 night

    4 domestic flights, about 28 hours door to door between places, roughly 3.5 days travelling.

    12 nights
    October to April

    Two hikers sit on the shore of Laguna Torre, with icebergs in the lake and Cerro Torre glowing gold at sunrise above the glacier.
  2. 02

    Malbec & the Andean North

    Wine country under Aconcagua, then the painted valleys and high-altitude vineyards of Salta and Jujuy.

    1. Buenos Aires 3 nights
    2. Mendoza 4 nights
    3. Salta 2 nights
    4. Purmamarca 2 nights
    5. Cafayate 2 nights

    3 domestic flights, about 20 hours door to door between places, roughly 2.5 days travelling (including getting back to Buenos Aires).

    13 nights
    March to May, or September to November

    Striped red, ochre and grey ridges of the Serranía de Hornocal near Humahuaca, with a band of white cloud drifting along the summits.
  3. 03

    Patagonia, Coast to Cape

    Whales and penguins on the Atlantic, the great glaciers and granite towers, then the Beagle Channel at the end of the road.

    1. Buenos Aires 2 nights
    2. Puerto Madryn 3 nights
    3. El Calafate 3 nights
    4. El Chaltén 3 nights
    5. Ushuaia 3 nights

    5 domestic flights, about 33 hours door to door between places, roughly 4 days travelling (including getting back to Buenos Aires).

    14 nights
    October to December

    A group of Magellanic penguins walks across wet sand at Punta Tombo, their bodies reflected in the shallow water.
  4. 04

    Lakes to Glaciers

    The Lake District around Bariloche, then south to the ice. Best in summer, when there are direct flights between the two.

    1. Buenos Aires 2 nights
    2. Bariloche 4 nights
    3. El Calafate 2 nights
    4. El Chaltén 3 nights

    3 domestic flights, about 22 hours door to door between places, roughly 2.5 days travelling (including getting back to Buenos Aires).

    11 nights
    December to March

    View through trees over the turquoise bay of Lake Nahuel Huapi at Villa La Angostura, with forested shores and mountains behind.
  5. 05

    One Week, Done Properly

    For a single week: Buenos Aires, Iguazú and a night on a pampas estancia. Two places done well instead of five done badly.

    1. Buenos Aires 3 nights
    2. Iguazú 2 nights
    3. Pampas estancia 2 nights

    2 domestic flights, about 9 hours door to door between places, roughly 1 day travelling.

    7 nights
    All year

    Gauchos in berets on horseback beside a wire fence on open pampas
The granite spires of Monte Fitz Roy glowing pink at sunrise above dark foothills

Now join the dots.

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