Ushuaia Tour: The Southernmost City in the World

You will be greeted at the Ushuaia airport by one of our Argentina For Less representatives. Then you’ll head for your comfortable Ushuaia hotel, and you will have the rest of the day to explore the marvelous city of Ushuaia. You will have the evening to explore the area at your leisure.

Read our Ushuaia newsletter article or our Ushuaia Travel Guide for ideas on what to see and do in Ushuaia.

After breakfast, you will start your tour exploring the Tierra del Fuego National Park. From the Tierra del Fuego Train Line, you can take in the breathtaking views of this 240 acre park and its snow covered mountains, rivers, lakes and vast natural forests. The flora here is spectacular – the land is covered in fire bushes, beech trees, box-leafed barberries, and orchids and violets. You’ll cross the Lapataia River and stop in Laguna Verde, where geese and ibis migrate during the summer. You can take a delightful walk up Laguna Negra, or the Beaver’s Path, to see the Beaver dams. In Lapataia Bay, you can visit the ruins of the Yamana people. You’ll pass Lago Roca before returning to Ushuaia for the next part of the tour.

After exploring the Tierra del Fuego Park, you will take a boat cruise along the famous Beagle Channel.  You will gain panoramas of Ushuaia Bay and see the diverse marine wildlife, such as cormorants and fur seals, on De los Lobos and De los Pajaros Islands. On one of the Bridges Isles, you can explore the island for concheros, or giant shells, and enjoy the views of Chile and Argentina. You will also see the Les Eclaireurs lighthouse. During the cruise, you can enjoy snacks and the favorite Argentine drink, mate. In the afternoon, you will be taken back to your Ushuaia hotel.

After breakfast, you have the opportunity to take an additional Ushuaia tour, or you can be transferred to the airport for your journey home or to the next destination on your Argentina vacation.

*Prices listed are seasonal; please consult a Travel Advisor for further details

PLEASE NOTE:
As of 1 January 2010, an entrance fee (Reciprocity Fee) is chargeable for citizens of the United States, Canada and Australia visiting Argentina. For further details, please read this article on the Latin America For Less Travel Blog.

• Hotels based on US. Standards.
• All tours stated in the itinerary.
• 2 hotel nights in Ushuaia.
• All transfers and entrance fees.
• All breakfasts.
• English speaking tour guides.

Prices Valid May- September

Prices Valid October- April

This two hour Ushuaia tour of the city plumbs the depths of Ushuaia’s history, taking you to the historic center of town, the port, and the hilly streets where you can see the lay of the land. The Ushuaia tour finishes at the Museum of the End of the World, where the guides can spin long yarns about the city’s history – mixed in with legendary pirates, adventurers, and Indians.  You can also visit the prison, where you can learn about the convicts who once rode the Convict Train into Ushuaia, as well as the Maritime Museum.

This full day tour takes you to the Gable Island, the largest island in the Beagle Channel. Wild, isolated and uninhabited, the island features an old sheep-shearing storehouse and some traces of the native Yamana Indians. While enjoying a warm and healthy breakfast in a comfortable hut, you’ll prepare for the two-hour hike crossing the south of the island to reach the Beagle Channel. On the island, you’ll hike through some old native settlements and see many birds such as gulls, steamer ducks, petrels, cormorants, albatrosses and Magellan Penguins. After lunch your cruise continues to the Penguin Rockery at Martillo Island, home of a colony of Magellan Penguins and some Gentoo Penguins. You will return to Harberton Ranch and an estancia which belongs to the descendants of the first British Missionaries that reached Tierra del Fuego, and was managed for many years by Ms. Natalie Goodall, one of the area’s foremost naturalists. After a short visit you’ll return to Ushuaia.

*Penguin tour available from November to March.

This full day tour of Fagnano and Escondido Lakes takes you in a 4x4 vehicle excursion from Ushuaia to the beautiful, rugged landscape of the bottom of the world. From Ushuaia, you’ll take National Route 3 heading about 60km north, where you’ll be able to enjoy the landscape of the Carabajal and Tierra Mayor Valleys. At Tierra Mayor you will have free time to try snow shoe hiking, Nordic skiing, dog sledding, or simply enjoy the views from the toasty warm hostel. A Fueguian lamb barbeque (included) will be served. You’ll continue up to Paso Garibaldi, a panoramic spot with an impressive view of the Escondido and Fagnano Lakes. You’ll then arrive at the shores of Fagnano Lake from where the tour will continue off road along the coast for about 10km. After skirting the Bombilla Lagoon the vehicle goes back into the woods and following a secondary road eventually rejoins Route 3, where you’ll head back to Ushuaia.

*Optional kayaking at Escondido and Fanano Lake for an additional price.

This five hour Tierra Mayor dog sledding and snowshoeing trek is a thrilling way to tour Ushuaia. Depart in the morning for Tierra Mayor, where you will get hitched up to a dog sled pulled by a pack of Huskies. You will mush your dogs along old logging trails until you reach a woodcutter’s shelter, a small log cabin with a cozy fireplace. After your sled ride, you can enjoy a cup of hot chocolate in the shelter. Then gear up for the next part of the adventure, a one and a half hour snowshoe trek through the snowy hills of Tierra Mayor. Gliding across snow a meter deep, you will arrive at the Alvear icefalls and enjoy terrific views of the Tierra Mayor valley. Return to the shelter, warm up with more hot chocolate, then strap on the snowshoes and descend down the logging trails to the Tierra Mayor entrance. You will then transfer back to your Ushuaia hotel.

*The trek is moderately challenging. 
*This excursion is available June-September 

This full day trek takes you to Laguna Esmeralda, or Emerald Lagoon. You will transfer from Ushuaia to Tierra Mayor, where you will start your trek. You will cross peat bog areas and lenga (tall deciduous beech) and cohiue (evergreen beech) forests which have been standing for hundreds of years. You may be lucky enough to see foxes, condors and beavers. You will enter into the heart of the Fueguian Natural and Landscape reserve when we reach the Emerald Lagoon. The color of the water, the surrounding landscape and its position; surrounded by the Fueguian Andes, is an invitation to stop for lunch on the shores of the lake.  Finally we’ll start our way back to the shelter and later to the hotel.

Beavers are completely herbivorous mammals living on twigs, bark and leaves (to which they add grass in spring and summer). They build dams for protection and as a winter reserve of food. The departure from Ushuaia for this tour takes place during the summer evenings entering a private ranch and crossing the Andean Range in a comfortable Land Rover. After a 25 minute ride, you’ll be deep inside the Sub-Antarctic Beech Forest and the home of the beaver’s dams. You’ll be able to see the beavers at work as, due to a lack of predators, they have become extraordinarily abundant. Late evening return to Ushuaia after a dinner consisting of a healthy stew, with wonderful views of the city at night.