Locally Hosted Independent Tour Suggested Departure Day: Friday

ITINERARY (Subject to change without notice):

Friday - Depart USA: Depart Miami, New York or Los Angeles on overnight flight

Saturday - Arrive Buenos Aires: Morning arrival. Meet and transfer to the Alvear Palace   in the heart of fashionable Recoleta for 3 nights with buffet breakfast daily. Afternoon city tour of Buenos Aires, often called "The Paris of South America". Drive down the widest boulevard on earth, 9 de Julio, past the Obelisk commemorating 400 years of history, past the Colon Opera House and many other places of interest in this sophisticated European style city.

Sunday - Buenos Aires : Day at leisure to explore Bueos Aires at your own pace.  Today there is a street fair in Recoleta and an outdoor antique flea market in historic San Telmo.This evening you will enjoy dinner and tango show at the Esquina Carlos Gardel. (B/DS)

Monday - Buenos Aires: Day at leisure to explore Buenos Aires at your own pace. Explore the art galleries and museums, shop for leather or arrange an optional excursion into the Pampas for a traditional lunch at an estancia. (B)

Tuesday - Buenos Aires - Iguazu Falls: Transfer to the airport for flight to Iguazu Falls & transfer to Hotel Sheraton Iguazu Internacional on the Argentine side of the falls for 2 nights with Continental breakfast daily. This afternoon you will visit the Argentine side of these awesome falls, offering an "up-close and personal" encounter with the falls, via boardwalk along base of several smaller falls and boat to the viewing point at the edge of the falls. (B)

Iguazu Falls is truly spectacular. On the Argentine-Brazilian border, they are 60 feet taller than Niagara and about half as wide again. Spanning more than a mile wide precipice, 275 falls plunge an average of 300 feet to the river below. Above the impact of the waters on the rocks at the tip hovers a perpetual cloud of mist. Eleanor Roosevelt is said to have exclaimed when she first saw Iguazu Falls: "Poor Niagara! This makes Niagara look like a kitchen faucet!"

Wednesday - Iguazu Falls: Today you will spend the entire day visit the Brazilian side of the falls - from this vantage point you will have panoramic vistas of the falls. You'll take the walking tour to view the falls from many angles and levels, with plenty of time to photograph and explore at your own pace. Then take the Macuco Safari Excursion - a jeep-train ride through the National Park and thrilling motorlaunch excursion to the Salto de Macuco for a totally different vantage point. Then make a stop at the Parque de Aves for a visit to the huge walk-through aviaries highlighting the birds of Brasil and from around the world. Lunch included enroute, with afternoon transfer back to your hotel on the Argentine side. (B)
         NOTE: Because you are entering Brasil a visa is required. You will need to obtain one prior to your departure from the USA.

Thursday - Iguazu - Buenos Aires-Bariloche: Morning transfer to the airport for flight to Buenos Aires to connect with your flight across the pampas to the edge of the Andes and the summer-winter resort town of San Carlos de Bariloche. Meeting and transfer to the Hotel Llao Llao for 3 night stay with Breakfast daily. (B)

Friday - Bariloche: This morning you'll drive through town and out along the Nahuel Huapi Lake on the "Circuito Chico" routing for spectacular vistas of the forests, mountains and lakes, and take the chairlift to the summit of Cerro Campanario for spectacular panoramas of the area. In the afternoon, you're free to explore at your own pace. Bariloche is full of boutiques, chocolate chops, restaurants and tea hours. (B)

Saturday - Bariloche: At leisure to explore this charming resort at your own pace. The Llao Llao has a golf course and a spa, and you can arrange optional visits in the area, such as a motorlaunch excursion on Lake Nahuel Huapi or perhaps a drive along the Seven Lakes route. (B)

Sunday - Bariloche - Buenos Aires: Morning at leisure. Hotel check-out is 1 PM and afternoon transfer to the airport for flight to Buenos Aires. Upon arrival at the domestic airport, meeting and transfer from Aeroparque Airport to Ezeiza International Airport for your international departure flight. (B).

Monday - Arrive Miami: Morning arrival and make connections to your home city.

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