The 6 main tourist attractions in Argentina

 

The Argentine Republic has innumerable tourist attractions that receive millions of visits per year. It is best to book a complete tour with an expert and local Argentine travel agent that already includes airfare, hotel, excursions, tours, and transfers to and from the airport.

 

Regarding the most visited and valued tourist attractions by national and foreign tourists, we can highlight:

 

1. Buenos Aires. The city of Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan city that houses more than 3 million people daily, including visitors and those who live in the city. Buenos Aires has little to envy capitals like Paris, London or Madrid. It is diverse, imposing, bustling and you can find everything the tourist is looking for and more.

 

2. Iguazu Falls. They are the largest waterfalls in the world. The Iguazú Falls are located on the border between Brazil and Argentina. In Argentina they are in the north of the province of Misiones. On the Argentine side, they are protected by the Iguazú National Park, which has 67,000 hectares. The falls are impressive and are a sample of the immense work of nature.

3. Perito Moreno Glacier. This glacier shows an impressive phenomenon once a year: its great mass of ice advances continuously, causing the detachment of gigantic blocks of ice on its front 5 km wide. This detachment generates a roar similar to that of thunder.

4. Salta. The province of Salta in the north of the country borders Bolivia. The city is colonial and has a great historical legacy. In Salta is the town of Cafayate that is very visited by tourists. You can see the hill of the seven colors and there are isolated places for rural tourism.

5. The vineyards of Mendoza. Mendoza is a province that borders the Andes. Mendoza vineyards produce some of the best wines in the world. Numerous Italian and French winemakers work in these vineyards in order to practice and learn about all types of Mendoza grapes. In Mendoza, as in Italian Tuscany, there are various wine and food tours that tourists can do.

 

6. Bariloche. Nestled in the middle of Patagonia, the city of Bariloche has a German style due to German immigration after the 2nd. World War. With spectacular landscapes that surround it, during the ski season international competitions are held (from June to September). Cerro Catedral is the most important ski resort and you can also visit the Nahuel Huapi National Park with stunning views of the lake and mountains.

Latest and up to date reviews and comments about 01Argentina.com Travel Agency

In this blogger section the passengers of 01Argentina.com Travel Agency can leave us their comments, reviews and impressions about the travel packages they used in our country Argentina to visit the main Tourist destinations such as The Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentine Patagonia, the capital city of the country Buenos Aires and of course the famous Iguazu Falls. We are very interested to hear the reviews about the hotels, the hospitality they have received from our English-speaking tour guides and the services in the airplane, buses for the tours and private cars for the transfers to the airports.

We are extremely pleased to receive, from our passengers, recognition for our tourist services and expressions of affection for Argentina and our Travel Agency.

Excellent Tours in Ushuaia and Puerto Madryn Patagonia 

I wanted to thank you for the whole trip you organized to my wife and I in the best tourist destinations in Argentina. It went extremely well and we loved all the places visited, the hotel Dazzler Puerto Madryn and the Cap Polonio Hotel in Ushuaia, the tours in Puerto Madryn to the Peninsula Valdes with Whales Watching and the full day tour to Punta Tombo to the see the half-millions Penguins Reserve with Gaiman Town were perfect with a very professional attention of our English Speaking Tourist Guides in both tourist destinations. I still have to visit El Calafate with Perito Moreno Glacier and the Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia, so for a next opportunity I will be writing for help in organizing those complete tour packages too. Again a thousand thanks for your hospitality and for offering me specially a personalized and safe trip.

Marcela Purita Italy 28/07/2020

Phenomenal Tour to Argentina

Everything was excellent during the complete tour package we booked with your travel agency entitled “The Best of Argentina from North to south” from all points of view, all I can say is THAK YOU 01Argentina Travel Agency staff for all the logistics and how well organized the tours were You really made us feel perfect in our 45thAnniversary. Everything was phenomenal, the transfers upon arrival for each of our domestic flights, the accommodations and the Tour guides, they really were delightful. Thank you very much for your services!! Your Travel Agency is totally recommended. Our experience in Argentina was very good and in regard to all the tourist destinations we have visited we feel that El Calafate with the Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia Argentina was the most beautiful place I have ever seen in the world!!! In addition our experience as foreign tourists has been the best we ever had. The people with whom we were in contact like travel agents and tour coordinators showed us that they appreciated our visit to your country. I would use your services again and recommend your travel agency to other tourists. 

Thank you and see you soon.

Lucas Thompson Swiss 30/07/2020

Greetings from Canada! 

My friends and I enjoyed a wonderful Tour to Argentina! Thank you very much for arranging this amazing tour for us. The driver and tour guide had our full attention through out the whole trip. You have made 20 senior folks from Canada very happy. Thank you.

Thank you again for the gift of the champagne. We drank it the night we went to the tango show Madero Tango in the beautiful neighborhood of Puerto Madero, which was very good also with an incredible view of the riverwalks!

We had a very nice time and we were shocked by so much natural beauty there is in Argentina. I found the tours to Iguazu Falls and Patagonia very well organized, everything was as planned. The attention in the local Travel agency was very good and it really was nice to meet the staff in person. We liked the hotels you chose, particularly those in Puerto Natales and Calafate. The excursions were good too, the people very friendly and available. The Australis cruise was really incredible, we really liked it.

All the best 

Peter Perillo’s group Toronto Canada 25/07/2020

Salinas Grandes, a white disert in north of Argentina

Salinas Grandes, a white desert at 4,000 meters high

It is one of the most beautiful white extensions of Argentina with sporadic turquoise tones and almost perfect reflections.
Argentina, wide in territory and beauty, has several of those places that you always want to return to, one of them is the Province of Jujuy and its wonderful Salinas Grandes. The effects that nature can produce in the face of the stranger are unpredictable, as in the Salinas Grandes, in the province of Jujuy, very close to the border crossing of Jama that connects with Chile.
The name "grandes" is because it is the third largest salt flat in South America with an extension of more than 12 thousand hectares in the open sky. One of the whitest areas that can be found in Argentina and with a texture of robust hardness that will be necessary to appreciate closely to understand.

Located about 190 kilometers from the provincial capital, the Salinas Grandes capture the attention of visitors of all ages and awaken great creativity by having camera in hand. An immense depression totally depopulated that becomes even more attractive if a few hours before it rained. Where only the artisans who work the salt reside and offer delicately carved objects with picks and axes.

Although the access is relatively easy, climbing costs and winding up to over 4,100 meters, there are also many agencies that offer the route in Jujuy -also in the neighboring province of Salta-. In case of doing it in a particular way, it is important to load enough fuel, bring food, although in the area there is a restaurant, sunglasses to protect the sight and light shoes to splash in this real show.
Ancestral territory
The origin of the Salinas Grandes, scarcely smaller than those of Uyuni in Bolivia and those of Arizaro in Salta, dates back between 5 and 10 million years, when the basin was completely covered with water coming from a volcano. The gradual evaporation of this liquid and its components, is what gave form to this salt that has a crust whose average thickness is 30 centimeters and resists the weight of vehicles to medium trucks.

According to scientists, it is a chemical-evaporite sediment that in turn is divided into three types of zones: polygonal salt, salt efflorescence and silt. Those who will explain the secrets of extraction and the processes for its industrialization, are the same workers who remain in the place and receive the visitor with all kindness.
At first glance, everything will look the same. But each area was sectioned in arbitrary hexagons that extend to the side of National Route 52 through which it is accessed and officiated as the only alteration. The silence is practically total and each step forward will sound crispy to the ears.

The north of the country offers tourists countless destinations of great beauty, and the surroundings of the Salinas Grandes are also to highlight:

•  Despite the high altitude, they serve as the base of an endorheic basin that continues northward in the Guayatayoc Lagoons.
• To the southeast, the picturesque Sierra de Chañi and the old villages that make up the Quebrada de Humahuaca. During the ascent journey you can even make brief stops in Yala where it is possible to camp, Leon with just 500 inhabitants, Volcano with its lime deposits, Tumbuaya on the banks of the Rio Grande, in whose church images and pieces of goldsmiths from colonial Cuzco are conserved. Purmamarca, when you will see the first cactus.
•  Then the curve will lead to the Cuesta de Lipán, crossing hamlets such as Quisquira, Patacal and La Ciénaga, until you reach the Abra de Potrerillos.
• Back now the backdrop will be the polychromatic hill of seven colors, with green, pink, yellow, violet, white and gray tones that correspond to different minerals. Unique in the country, where to make exciting photographic safaris, hikes, horseback rides and even bicycle circuits.
• To the west, you will pass a path surrounded by large poplars and willows. And it is even possible to take a few kilometers to the famous RN 40 that leads to San Antonio de los Cobres or Abra Pampa.