Traveling Well Includes…
• All gratuities to Tauck Directors, local guides, naturalists and ship staff • Cruise aboard L’Austral, Le Boréal or Le Soléal accompanied by onboard naturalists • A water-repellent, hooded parka provided aboard ship by Tauck – yours to keep • Shore Excursions guided by expert naturalists, ornithologists, historians or oceanographers • Two nights in Buenos Aires and sightseeing in Ushuaia & Tierra del Fuego National Park • Buenos Aires sightseeing including famed La Recoleta Cemetery & a tango performance • 2014 bar & restaurant beverages throughout the day aboard ship, including house wines & spirits • Airport transfers upon arrival and departure as noted • 34 meals, service charges, applicable fuel surcharges, taxes and porterage
A place unlike any other, Antarctica offers the experience of a lifetime for those who dream of getting up close to... waddling penguins, curious and comic... breathtaking icebergs in blue, green and fascinating shapes... incredible seabirds – wandering albatrosses, gulls, cormorants and terns... leopard seals, Antarctic fur seals and crabeater seals showing little fear of humans... perhaps a magnificent whale, skimming icy waters for a tasty meal... an unbelievable world of white... a continent untouched by humans until the turn of the 20th century... unspoiled nature, shared by knowledgeable guides... a world that offers something new – and wonderful fun!
1. ARRIVE BUENOS AIRES Tour begins: 2:00 PM, Caesar Park Buenos Aires. A transfer is included upon arrival from Buenos Aires Ezeiza International Airport to your hotel. Join us for a city sightseeing tour that includes a visit to La Recoleta Cemetery, the city’s oldest and most elaborate – including the Duarte family mausoleum where Evita Perón’s embalmed remains were laid to rest. Join us this evening for a welcome reception and dinner featuring live music and an irresistible tango performance. Meals D
2. CITY SIGHTSEEING Your exploration of Buenos Aires continues today, with sightseeing that includes Avenue 9 de Julio, where nine lanes of traffic in both directions are separated by beautifully gardened medians – an engineering coup and a pedestrian challenge! At the heart of downtown, you’ll see Plaza de Mayo, home to Catedral Metropolitana, a neoclassical building completed in
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1863. And in Palermo, the largest residential area of Buenos Aires, you’ll find pretty neighborhood gardens designed in 1800, following the examples of London’s Hyde Park and Paris’ Bois de Boulogne. The remainder of your day is free, perhaps exploring the interesting neighborhoods of San Telmo, a hotspot for tango with plenty of good places to eat, and Bohemian La Boca, at the mouth of the Riacheulo River – once the port of entry for thousands of hopeful European immigrants. Meals BL
3. FLY TO USHUAIA / EMBARK SHIP Fly south along the coast of Argentina to the southernmost city in the world, Ushuaia. Isolated from the Argentine mainland by water and mountains, this frontier town is surrounded by lakes and bays, forests and glaciers. You’ll get a taste of life in the city closest to Antarctica during sightseeing that takes you up
Zodiac transfers ashore bring you right up close to Antarctica’s beauty
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