Embark on a great adventure sailing around Cape Horn.
10 Days / 9 Nights
Buenos Aires - Ushuaia - Australis Cruise - Punta Arenas
USD 2545
Australis will take you on an amazing journey to the “uttermost end of the earth”. On the Ushuaia – Punta Arenas route, you will enjoy the splendor and beauty of unique natural scenery and wildlife. You will travel on one of the industry’s most comfortable ships designed to make your trip as pleasant and remarkable as possible through the Strait of Magellan and Beagle Channel. Our expedition cruises give you the chance to experience authentic adventure travel. Take a journey to Cape Horn and view the same incredible beauty that Charles Darwin enjoyed centuries ago or capture footage of marine life during your journey. The possibilities are endless. Experience wildlife and nature like you never have before with Patagonian travel.
Arrival at the International airport and transfer to the hotel. Rest of the day at leisure.
This excursion transmits the emotion of a multiple Buenos Aires. We will get to know the symbol of our city: the Obelisk. We will go through squares like Mayo, San Martín and Alvear. Avenues: Corrientes, De Mayo, 9 de Julio, among others. Neighborhoods with history like La Boca and San Telmo, sumptuous like Palermo and Recoleta, modern like Puerto Madero. The parks Lezama and Tres de Febrero, and commercial and financial areas and the Football Stadium.
Today transfer to the airport in Buenos Aires to take your flight to Ushuaia. You will be met in Ushuaia airport by our staff who will take you to your accommodation.
Pick up at the hotel to enjoy one of the most incredible tours in Ushuaia. We invite you to reach the true End of the World to feel the excitement of being in a unique and magical place.
We will head towards Tierra del Fuego National Park, which is located 12 km from the center of the city of Ushuaia.
Before entering the National Park, we will stop at the End of the World Train station (optional) where passengers who wish to can choose to take the mythical train ride (about 60 minutes) that ends inside the National Park.
Those who do not take the train ride can enjoy a short walk in the Tierra del Fuego forest.
Once the train ride is over, the group will meet again inside the Park with the vehicle and guide to continue the tour to Ensenada, a bay that combines the Andes, the sub-Antarctic forest and the sea in one place.
We will continue to other panoramic points within the area.
We suggest the following optional excursions:
After breakfast transfer to the pier to embark the Australis Cruise.
Between 10:00 PM and 5:00 PM, we will check-in at Avenida San Martín 409, next to the pier, to embark at 6:00 PM. After boarding, we will make a welcome toast and introduce the Captain and his crew. The ship will sail to the far south immediately after. Through the mythical Beagle Channel and the Strait of Magellan, we will travel through Patagonia and the channels of Tierra del Fuego.
We will sail through the Murray Channel and Nassau Bay, arriving at Cape Horn National Park, where we will disembark, if weather conditions permit, to experience the magic of walking through one of the southernmost points of the world, surrounded by charm and legends.
In the afternoon, we will disembark at Wulaia Bay, a historic site of one of the largest settlements of the native Yagans canoeists. We will reach a viewpoint, walking through the Magellanic forest in. which lengas, coigües, canelos, and ferns grow, among other species.
In the morning, we will sail along the northwest arm of the Beagle Channel to enter and disembark in the Pia Fjord.
We will make a trip to the viewpoint from where you will see the homonymous glacier, whose main peak extends from the top of the mountain range to the sea. During the afternoon, in our Zodiac boats, we will navigate between high rocky walls until reaching the Porter Glacier.
In the morning, we will navigate the Cockburn Channel to enter the Agostini Sound, where you can appreciate the glaciers that descend from the center of the Darwin Mountain Range, some of them reaching the sea. During the morning, we will disembark in Zodiac boats for a walk around a lagoon formed by the melting of the Aguila Glacier. In the afternoon, we will navigate in Zodiac boats to approach the Condor Glacier. We will learn about the formation of glaciers and their influence on the abrupt geography of the Fuegian channels.
We will disembark at Magdalena Island first thing in the morning if weather conditions are suitable. On the island, we will be able to see a huge colony of Magellanic penguins. This excursion is replaced by a landing on Marta Island in September and April, where South American sea lions can be sighted from Zodiac boats. Then, we will arrive in Punta Arenas, disembarking at approximately 11:30 hrs.
*In September the cruise will visit Marta Island instead of Magdalena Island.
Transfer to the Airport for your departure flight.
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