Itinerary

March 17 – Buenos Aires

Arrival. Reception at Ezeiza International Airport, and transfer to your hotel.Rest of the day at leisure.

Lodging at Hotel Mansion Dandi Royal for two nights.

March 18 - Buenos Aires

After breakfast Tom will show some of his work from Patagonia and we will meet with the group. Afternoon to photograph tango dancers in La Boca for a few hours. Late in the evening you will enjoy a tango show and dinner at the traditional &quotEsquina Homero Manzi" (transfers included).

Lodging at Hotel Mansion Dandi Royal. (D)

March 19 – Los Glaciares National Park: El Chalten/Fiz Roy

After breakfast we will photograph Tango dancers in the Dorrego Plaza before we leave to the airport at about 1:30 pm for a 3:40 pm flight to El Calafate. Our bus will be waiting at the airport in El Calfate and will take 3 hours to drive us through the Patagonia steppes to El Chalten. This is a small village close to Viedma Lake and Glacier, with the Fitz Roy chain of peaks as its backdrop. This area, north of Los Glaciares National Park, with its peaks: Fitz Roy (11,073 feet) Cerro Torre, Torre Egger, Aguja Standhardt, Aguja Poin-cenot, and St. Exupery, constitute a singular challenge for climbers around the world. The landscape photography is AMAZING here! Sunset shoot from outside town.

Lodging at Hotel Los Cerros for three nights . (B, D)

March 20 – Los Glaciares NP: El Chalten/Fiz Roy

Today you will enjoy some hiking and driving to great areas for photography. We'll start at sunrise with the first light on the mountains. In the morning we will photograph Gauchos and horses with Fitz Roy in the background followed by an afternoon shoot at Salto Grande, a spectacular waterfall.

Lodging in El Chalten Hotel Los Cerros. (B, D)

March 21 – Los Glaciares NP: Viedma Glacier

Full day boat excursion on the Viedma Lake to view and photograph the spectacular Viedma Glacier, and short trekking on the glacier with crampons visiting the ablation areas and ice caves. (hats and gloves mandatory). We will photograph, ice climbers in colorful gear…this is an amazing adventure! Picnic lunch during the excursion. Photograph the sunset.

Lodging Hotel Los Cerros in El Chalten. Dinner. (B,L,D).

NOTE: We may change today excursion due to weather conditions, and you would visit other area.

March 22 – Los Glaciares NP: Perito Moreno Glacier

Drive back for 3 hours to El Calafate, a small town located along the shores of Argentino Lake. The landscape of the region is a combination of arid steppes to the east, where eagles, falcons, lesser rheas, guanacos, hares, foxes and pumas live, and forests of lengas and nires near the West Andes. Arrival, and lodging at Estancia Alice. Lunch and free time in El Calafate. Photograph different activities at the ranch, gauchos and sheep.

Barbeque dinner and show (asado) (B, D)

After breakfast we will do a Gaucho Model shoot with off camera flash at the hotel. At 1030 we will depart to photograph the spectacular Perito Moreno Glacier. This park of 600.000 hectares (2,300 square miles) has thirteen glaciers that flow into the Argentino and Viedma lakes. Perito Moreno Glacier, is one of the few glaciers in the world that is still progressing. It is only 500 ft above sea level, which makes it very accessible, allowing one to stand in front of a mountain of ice that measures 60 m (180 ft) by 5 km (2.5 miles). The constant fall of huge towers of ice from its walls and into the lake is an unforgettable spectacle. Picnic lunch during the excursion.

Dinner and lodging at the estancia. (B,L,D)

March 24 – Torres del Paine National Park / Chile

Today, you will cross to the border with Chile (Cancha Carrera/Cerro Castillo) and drive to Torres del Paine National Park. Torres del Paine is a large park (450,000 acres) declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. Today you will visit Sarmiento, Nordenskjold and Pehoe Lakes. You may enjoy a short hiking to Grey Lake to view part of the glacier. The park is particularly rich in fauna, and you'll be likely to see guanacos, lesser rheas, black-necked swans, geese, flamingos, Magellanic woodpeckers, and peregrine falcons and condors on the mountain slopes. Picnic lunch during the excursion.

Lodging and dinner at Hotel Rio Serrano for two nights. (B,L,D)

March 25 – Torres del Paine National Park / Chile

Photograph the sunrise. Discover areas of beautiful scenery for photography and look for flamingos, condors and guanacos.

Picnic lunch and dinner at the hotel. (B, L,D)

March 26 – Torres del Paine NP - El Calafate - Buenos Aires

After breakfast, we will drive back to El Calafate, Argentina, with many photo stops along the steppes. Afternoon flight to Buenos Aires. Arrival and transfer to your hotel.

Lodging for one night in downtown Buenos Aires. (B)

March 27 – Buenos Aires / USA

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