Argentina · 1-DAY TOURS
Every trip has one free day too few. These 15 full-day tours justify the slot, priced and timed so you can decide in minutes and get back to the fun part.
Spend a full day traveling from Salta into Jujuy with an English- or Spanish-speaking guide. Visit Purmamarca, the 7 Color Hill, Cuesta de Lipan, and Salinas Grandes. Guides such as Eduardo, Monica, Cesar, and Monserrat have been praised for clear explanations and careful care at high altitude.
“Great guide, comfortable transportation, enough time at each spot and beautiful scenery.”
Leave Mendoza at 7:30 am for a full-day ride along Route 7 toward the Chilean border. You’ll stop at Potrerillos Dam, Uspallata, Puente del Inca, Aconcagua viewpoints, and Pichueta. Round-trip transport and a guide are included, with English assistance at key points. Lunch costs extra, and much of the day is spent on the road.
“The trip is quite long, but well worth it. It includes many interesting and breath-taking stops along the way. Lorena, our guide, was very knowledgeable and provided the commentary in both Spanish and English. Remember to bring water and sun screen :)”
Leave Buenos Aires at about 9:30 a.m. for Estancia Santa Susana, a country ranch near Los Cardales. Expect empanadas, wine, a carriage ride, ranch museum and chapel, a generous Argentine barbecue, tango and folk music, and gaucho horsemanship displays. Hotel pickup is limited to downtown, with central drop-off after the return drive.
“The place was very nice and cosy (even if it was big and with 300 guests). The gauche show as well as the gaucho show was good. The horseback riding on the other hand was lousy. We expected to be allowed to ride the horses, not to go on a ride at horses with their head in the arse of the horse in front.”
Travel from Salta through Lerma Valley villages and the red-rock Quebrada de las Conchas to Cafayate. You’ll stop at the Devil’s Throat, Amphitheater, and other formations, taste regional wines including Torrontés, and have two hours to explore Cafayate. English and Spanish guides lead the trip, with Angie and Jasmine especially praised for their care and clear explanations.
“The tour was great🥰 I highly recommend it Just one ☝🏻 thing - they not gonna pick up you, in last moment they gonna txt you and tell that you need to came by yourself”
Spend about eight hours traveling from downtown Buenos Aires to Don Silvano Ranch for empanadas, horseback riding, an asado lunch, folk music, mate, and gaucho horsemanship. Guides speak English and Spanish. Expect a polished tourist ranch, short guided rides, hotel pickup from central hotels, and a city-center return.
“Awesome Trip. Great food! Good wine! Loved the guide. Gave us so much information on Argentina, the nation and the area!”
Leave Salta at 6:30 am for Cachi, Los Cardones National Park, Bishop’s Cliff, and the Calchaquí Valleys. Your guide explains the region’s geology, history, plants, and wildlife, with guides such as Jeremy, Pablo, Leo, and Cecilia praised for clear commentary. Lunch in Cachi is on your own.
“Great tour. Highly professional and very informative guide. Lots of stops on the way up, with time to take photos. Comfortable bus, good price. As others have said: you might want to go eat lunch in Salta itself, say at one of the restauraRead more”
Travel from Puerto Natales to Argentina’s Los Glaciares National Park on a 16-hour guided day trip. You’ll cross the border, meet your guide near El Calafate, and visit Perito Moreno Glacier. English and Spanish guidance is available. Bring your passport, Argentine pesos, and food for the day. The optional boat ride costs extra.
“Very long day. I did it after a long hike day and it was nice to do something that didn’t require a lot. Crossing the boarder was clear. We didn’t pick up our guide until we got into El Calafate.”
This full-day Mendoza excursion takes you from Potrerillos Dam to Aconcagua Provincial Park, with stops in Uspallata, Puente del Inca, and Las Cuevas. You travel by air-conditioned vehicle with a Spanish and English-speaking guide. Guides have included Hugo and Federico, while summer trips may continue to the Cristo Redentor monument at 4,200 meters.
“Our guide Hugo was so good. Very informative and personable. Highly recommend the tour. So much to see”
Spend 12 hours traveling from Salta through the Lerma and Calchaquí Valleys to Cachi. You’ll cross Cuesta del Obispo, reach 3,384 meters at Piedra del Molino, walk in Los Cardones National Park, and visit Cachi’s museum and church. English and Spanish guides include Gabriela and Jasmine.
“The guide Jasmine was fabulous! Very knowledgeable and funny, made our trip so enjoyable!”
Leave Mendoza for Don Daniel’s ranch, where you’ll learn the mate ritual, eat homemade sopaipillas, and saddle up for roughly 3.5 hours on mountain trails. Guides such as Matias, Martin, Noemi, and Timotheé have led guests through the Andes, with an asado or cold lunch at 2,700 meters, weather permitting.
“Indico para os amantes da natureza. Deliciosamente exótico! Faria o passeio novamente. Uma emoção única! Deliciosamente exótico! Faria o passeio novamente. Uma emoção única!”
Travel from Salta through Cafayate, Cachi, Salinas Grandes, Hornocal, and Humahuaca on a four-day guided minivan trip. Expect hotel pickup, English or Spanish guiding on most days, dramatic mountain scenery, a winery visit, and one Spanish-only Hornocal excursion. Food and drinks are extra.
“For the most part, teehee that this is more like a chaperoned excursion than something which is actively guided, but they do a good job of taking you plenty of amazing places.”
Spend about 13.5 hours traveling north from Salta through the Quebrada de Humahuaca. Visit Purmamarca and Seven Colors Hill, Maimará, Tilcara, Uquía, the Tropic of Capricorn, and Humahuaca with an English- and Spanish-speaking guide. Hotel pickup is available in central Salta, though much of the day is spent on the bus.
“After reading the reviews this tour was mostly as expected. A lot of time in a crammed bus, but you do get to see some beautiful landscape. There is too much time planned for shopping at touristic stops, and too little time to explore the rock formations and nature that we all went on the tour four (nobody is interested in the ceramic workshop, let's face it). I went on another tour with a different provider (Tiamar) towards Cafayate the next day, and it was so so much better (smaller group, more personalised, much more time out in nature and less time on the bus). Wouldn't book again with this…”
Travel by ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento for a guided walk through the UNESCO-listed Old Town. You’ll see Calle de los Suspiros, the city gate, lighthouse, basilica, and convent ruins, then have free time to eat and explore. Hotel pickup, ferry tickets, and English, Spanish, or Portuguese guiding are included.
“This is our first time to visit Uruguay. Our tour guild Alejandra is nice and knowledgeable, give us brief introduction about the history of Colonia… Our driver picked up us on time, Everything goes smoothly!”
Spend about six hours with an English-speaking guide tracing Buenos Aires from Plaza San Martin to San Telmo, Recoleta, Palermo, Puerto Madero, and Plaza de Mayo. Expect serious walking, one taxi ride, a cemetery visit, coffee or lunch at your own cost, and guides such as Carlos, Clemencia, and Soledad.
“Very knowledgeable guide on the history, architecture and politics of BA and Argentine.”
Spend 10 hours exploring Península Valdés from Puerto Madryn with a bilingual guide. Walk near Magellanic penguins at San Lorenzo Ranch, look for sea lions and elephant seals at Punta Norte, and watch for guanacos, rheas, maras, foxes, and armadillos. Guides such as Alex, Esteban, and Martin have led highly praised small-group outings.
“Small group, only 4 of us. walking with the penguins was amazing, you are literally amongst them. Definitely recommend this trip.”
Pick an evening, a glacier or a cellar.
