Argentina is the eighth biggest country in the world, and in terms of landscapes, it is one of the most diverse places imaginable, offering vibrant jungle, wild-life packed wetlands, dramatic glaciers, mammoth mountains, sprawling pampas, dune-dotted beaches and shockingly turquoise lakes. To help you make some tough decisions, here are the best places to visit in Argentina.
1. Perito Moreno Glacier
Perito Moreno glacier is located in Southern Patagonia. It’s a chunk of ice 250 km2 (97 sq mi) in area and 30 km (19 mi) in length. It’s one of 48 glaciers fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in the Andes, which (by the way) holds in its icy grasp the world’s third-largest store of fresh water. From one water-based attraction to another. Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park is very well served by an extensive system of catwalks that allow you to get very close to the face of this breathtakingly massive river of ice. Clearly catwalks are something that Argentina does very well.
2. El Chalten, Santa Cruz province
Still within the Los Glaciares National Park lies hikers paradise El Chalten. Purely a tourist village, hikers come here for the warmer months (November to February) to visit the surrounding Cerro El Torre and Cerro Fitzroy. Walkers are rewarded with spectacular views of valleys, glacial rivers and lakes reflecting adjoining mountains on paths varying in degrees difficulty. The centrally located tourist office has hiking maps and advises on potential dangers and path closures.
3. Iguazú Fall
When it comes to destinations to see before you die, the Cataratas del Iguazú should rank near the top of the list. There’s nothing quite like this towering mass of spray and sound, which can be found straddling two countries amid 2,250 square kilometres of parkland. Some 275 waterfalls punctuate this stretch of river. At its largest and most dramatic conjunction, the water is churned into thick creamy clouds that tumble through rainbows of light. The resulting spray rises for so many metres that, from a distance, the falls can almost seem to be travelling in two directions.
4. Quebrada de Humahuaca
Places like Iguazú Falls and Perito Moreno glacier are firmly on the tourist radar in Argentina. But here’s somewhere equally fabulous that’s not: the Quebrada de Humahuaca in the far north-west of the country, in the Province of Jujuy. the Quebrada de Humahuaca is a ravine 150 km long and over two thousand meters above sea level, located not far from Argentina’s border with its northern neighbor, Bolivia. It is spectacular due to its rock formations and its incredible multicolored hills, which truly must be seen to be believed.
5. Bariloche, Villa La Angostura, and El Bolsón
The massive national parkland surrounding the towns of San Carlos de Bariloche, Villa La Angostura and El Bolsón display natural Andean drama in its rawest form. Standing thousands of metres over the plains, rock faces obscure even the higher summits of ice-capped volcanoes; turbid rivers carry glacial spring water to vast turquoise lakes in the valleys below; shores are stitched with forests that shelter some of the rarest trees on the planet, the arrayanes.Each town in this region offers a different kind of experience. Bariloche is not only the gateway to Argentina’s first national park, Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi, and the world-famous serpentine Ruta de los Siete Lagos (Seven Lakes route), but it is also one of Argentina’s top tourist centres, with an advanced infrastructure that supports year-round activities. Villa La Angostura is a smaller version of Bariloche, with equally high levels of dining and accommodation. El Bolsón is the laid-back member of this mountainous triumvirate, and still reflects the influence of the hippie squatters who first dreamed of creating an ecological haven here in the 1970s.
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