Buenos Aires is for Sybarites.

If it comes for sensuous pleasures, the excellent cuisine, including aphrodisiac food, gets the night ready. The city offers first rate various alternatives with a common characteristic: the possibility to have dinner very late at night and the promise to discover a whole world of sensations.

Las Cañitas, and the so-called Palermo Holywood and Palermo Soho neighborhoods, are very fashionable gourmet districts, the spot of choice of actors, models and publicists. On the other side of the city, you can visit Puerto Madero and its top restaurants sitting alongside the river.

The islands of Paraná River Delta

Tigre is the starting point to visit hundreds of islands forming up the Paraná River Delta at the mouth of Río de la Plata (River Plate), where lots of residences, hostels and sports clubs are located. Tours along the Delta and to Martín García Island - a natural and historical reserve - start from the river port of Tigre.

It is advisable to take the Tren de la Costa (coastline train), which 15-Km-long journey bordering the coast of Río de la Plata takes you through the districts of Vicente López, San Isidro, San Fernando and Tigre, where you will see some historical mansions. Train stations have shopping malls or coffee shops and restaurants. Parque de la Costa, an amusement park located at Delta station, offers different shows and outdoor entertainment. You can also go on catamaran rides along the Delta.

Horseback riding activities at the San Isidro racetracks are also interesting.

The Pampa Plains

This herbal sea, almost trees lacking is the widest extension of Argentina, and the agriculture engine of this country. Its natural richness includes salty lagoons full of pink flamingos, at Luro Park and the National Park Lihuel Calel and are also home of local species like the puma, guanaco, and a big chinchilla called vizcacha. The most important urban centers are: La Plata, Luján, Rosario and Santa Fe, all of them  with interesting churches, museums and colonial style buildings.

Train to the Clouds

It is one of the three highest trains in the world. It travels through the vertiginous mountains of the Andes Mountain Range and moves along astonishing landscapes.
It leaves from the city of Salta, runs along the Valle de Lerma (Lerma valley), gets into Quebrada del Toro (Bull's Gorge) and reaches the Puna.

The final point of the trip is the kilometer 1350 where you will find La Polvorilla Viaduct which is 224 metres long and 63 meters high. It is the highest railway line, at 4200 m.a.s.l. and one of the most important ones in the world due to its characteristics. 
The whole trip takes almost 15 hours, crossing 29 bridges, 21 tunnels, 13 viaducts, 2 "curls" and 2 zigzags. Due to the height at which the train moves, it is quite common to see clouds under its bridges or at the mountainsides, hence the choice of its name.
The train offers several services such as: restaurant car, panoramic car, folk spectacles, consulting room, audio, video and bilingual guides.

Quebrada de Humahuaca (The Humahuaca's Gorge)

UNESCO has acknowledged the area as a "Mankind Heritage", to cross through it is to live a plenary session of color and beauty of nature, together with the magic of an immemorial culture. The small "Quebradeños Villages" connect history and traditions by ancestral roots. 

The imprint of the conquest actually persists in a natural way together with the pre-Columbian old culture, like the cult to the Pachamama, the Inti Raijmi, the Manca Celebration, the Señalada, the Flachada, the Misachicos, the fervent Carnival, the deep devotion by Virgins and Saints and the Andean music. All this enhanced by the warm and hospitality of its inhabitants.

The attractive hills that accompany this Gorge, are by it selves a wonderful spectacle, standing out the Seven Colors Hill in the locality of Purmamarca, that is unique in the region and in the rest of the country. The combination of colors is the mark that match the difference and delights for the eyes of whose observing it.
The Humahuaca's Gorge is possible acceded from the following localities: San Salvador de Jujuy , Humahuaca , Purmamarca and Tilcara .

Iguazu Falls 

UNESCO has acknowledged the area as a "Mankind Heritage", the Iguazu Falls are a sublime spectacle.
They are located within a wild uncultivated setting surrounded by subtropical vegetation. Its 275 falls, some of them with more than 70 meters of height, make up a world of cascades that fall with such a strength that give birth to clouds of little atomized drops, in which the sun light decomposes in spectacular rainbows. 

Among the main falls we can mention the Mitre, Belgrano, Rivadavia, Three Musketeers, San Martín, Bozzetti, Two Sisters and the famous Devil's Throat, one of the most impressive falls due to its size and scenographic effect. 
The Iguazu National Park, which lodges the famous falls, contains more than 400 species of birds, around 2 000 vegetal species and an immeasurable world of insects making of this biome one of the richest natural environments of the country. They are near the locality of Puerto Iguazú

Esteros del Ibera (Swampy Lands)

The swampy lands and ponds of Iberá and the ecosystems that make them up are, without any doubt, one of the richest biological areas of Argentina.
Approximately between the 20 and el 30 % of the Provincial Reservation of Esteros del Ibera is formed by ponds. There are more than sixty ponds that joined to swampy lands and marshes, make up an environment of extreme humidity giving birth to a remarkable diversity of animal and vegetal species.
Among the vegetal species we can find: Ombues, American Timber trees, Jacarandaes, Silk-cotton trees, Willows, Espinillos, Yatay Palm trees; and water plants such as Royal Water Lily, Water Hyacinth, the little cabbage and the Lesser Duckweed.
Among the fauna species we find great reptiles such as Alligator, rodents such as The Coypou and the Capybara (the biggest rodent in the world), The Swampy Deer, The Howling Monkey or Carayá, The small Grey Fox, The Wildcat, The Black Armadillo or Tatú, apart from Ferrets, Hares, Weasels, Vizcachas, Boas, Rattlesnakes, Pit vipers, etc.
Appart from these species, there are hundreds of bird species and an infinity of insects, among which we can find varied beautiful butterflies. 
It is near the locality of Mercedes ( 125 km.) and the small village of Colonia Carlos Pellegrini (within the reservation), both located in Corrientes and comprising infrastructure for the tourist .

El Palmar National Park

The final aim of this Park and National Reservation close to the locality of Colón in Entre Ríos, is to preserve a representative sector of the large Palm trees area that extended over the zone up to the end of the last century.
These palm trees, of almost 12 meters of height, posses

Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley) and Talampaya

The Provincial Park Ischigualasto (Valle de la Luna) in San Juan and the National Park Talampaya in La Rioja, are next one to each other, and both of them are paleontologist and archaeological deposits of utmost importance. 
Fossils of vertebrates, footprints and rests of dinosaurs, ferns and petrified Araucaria trunks imprints, are just some examples that show its relevance. 
They also posses geological formations that were wind-eroded resulting in curious shapes; natural sculptures very similar to real elements forms 
The fauna of this region consists of guanacos, Patagonic hares or maras, foxes, ferrets and sierra squirrels, among others.
Finally, in Talampaya we can see several petroglyphs and ceramics belonging to the inhabitants that occupied the land before the arrival of the colonization, and which are still object of numerous studies of scientists and investigators from all over the world. 
Both parks offer the tourist specialized guides and in Talampaya there is a vehicles private service that is in charge of taking the visitors into the park.
The city of La Rioja and the locality of San Agustín del Valle Fértil (in San Juan) are the nearest points to reach both parks.

Mount Aconcagua

Also called the "The roof of teh Americas", is the highest peak in the American continent. It is located in the province of Mendoza, and its summit rises up to the 6.959 meters above the sea level.
It is the goal of mountain climbers from all over the world. Reaching its summit is a hard challenge that requires very good training and careful planning 
It is located within The Aconcagua Provincial Park and those who do not practice mountaineering can find many other activities in the zone, generally related to adventure tourism.
Excursion to the Aconcagua Provincial Park can be made from the province of Mendoza, among many other possibilities that this province offers. 

The Atuel's Canyon

Thirty seven kilometers away from the city of San Rafael , this extraordinary geomorphologic formation begins waters behind the floodgates of the The Nihuil's Dam, extended along 550 meters  and almost 40 km level saving.
Waters above of the imprisoned Great Valley, an extraordinary green water mirror emerald, we can  get into the Canyon itself. It is a present evidence of the world's origins, that by means of the erosion of the wind and the water has modeled rocks, conforming the most varied natural sculptures like: The Museum of Wax, The Rivadavia's Armchair, The Lizard, The Old Ones, The Monsters, The Enchanted City, The Hanging Gardens, The Monks, The Castles, The Fist, The Mommies, The Lion's Head, and other that call our attention.
Some have baptized to this place as the mini Colorado Canyon, resemblance in some characteristics to the existing one in the United States.

Valdes Peninsula

This geographical accident, one hour far from the city of Puerto Madryn, is the principal center of sea fauna in Argentina, due to its diversity and abundance.
Here you can watch: southern franca whales, Orcas, sea wolves and elephants, penguins and a great variety of sea birds. 
The zone of Valdes Peninsula and its roundabouts are, moreover, suitable for the practice of nautical activities and, especially, for scuba diving.
Its long beaches with transparent waters and imposing cliffs offer the tourist a landscape of striking beauty. 

The Route of the Seven Lakes

Leaving from San Martín de los Andes and arriving at Villa La Angostura or San Carlos de Bariloche (and vice versa), this singular mountain road of the Argentine Patagonia encounters, all along its track, several lakes of singular beauty. Their waters are transparent and of different tones ranging from blue to emerald green. 
In these lakes it is likely to find a great variety of trouts, and there are some points of the road that are considered excellent for sporting fishing.
San Carlos de Bariloche, San Martín de los Andes and Villa La Angostura are beautiful tourist mountain villages with an excellent service infrastructure for the tourist. They offer a large quantity of excursions and activities to do both within their cities or in their roundabouts. 

Perito Moreno Glacier

It is located within The Glaciers National Park and was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its front covers 5 kilometers and it has almost 80 meters of high above sea level. Ice blocks of different sizes are constantly coming off the glacier and falling into the waters of the Argentine lake causing astounding sounds and impressive waves over the surface, turning this moment into an unforgettable spectacle. 
This glacier is one of the few ones in the world that is in constant development. 
Several lake and terrestrial excursions can be done, and even it is possible to walk on its surface being in close contact with the glacier ice, meeting its inner peaks and ponds. Within the park, located at 80 km. from the locality of El Calafate, the tourist can visit other nearby glaciers and take part in varied activities.

Beagle Channel and Antarctic

Right from Ushuaia, the southernmost city of the world, the tourist can join in excursions to sail the waters of the Beagle Channel. 
Its bays and islets bathed by transparent waters and its variety of birds including  cormorants, penguins, sea gulls, swallows and mammals turn the visit to the Beagle Channel into an unforgettable experience. There are daily excursions in different kinds of boats that go to Cape Horn, The Estados' Island, Bridge Islands, The Wolves, The Birds and Les Eclaireurs lighthouse.
Another mysterious and fascinating possibility is visiting the Antarctica. There exists several itineraries that take from 8 days to 2 weeks, where you can accede (going ashore by means of rubber boats) to scenarios especially chosen due to the beauty of their landscapes or the richness of their fauna. 
The boats posses all the facilities and comfort necessary for this type of trips

Ski Centres

Argentina has several winter centers for the practice of ski and snowboard. 
Las Leñas Valley in Mendoza , Mount Cathedral in San Carlos de Bariloche, Chapelco in San Martín de los Andes, La Hoya in Esquel, Mount Bayo in Villa La Angostura and Mount Castor in Ushuaia are the most important centers of the country. However, there are several smaller centers such as Vallecitos and Penitentes in Mendoza, Caviahue in Neuquén and some others that are apt just for the cross-country style in Ushuaia.
The skiing season starts in June and finishes in October, depending on the snowfall volume registered in the year. However, the best months for the practice of this sport are July and August.
Refer to our section Ski Centers to know the technical cards and ski runs maps of the main centers for the practice of this sport

Thanks to Argentina Turística and Argentine Republic's Tourism  Office