Days 1–3: Buenos Aires → Days 4–5: Puerto Iguazu → Days 6–8: El Calafate & the Glaciers. Domestic flights are the main mode of transport, with a roughly 1 hour 50 minute flight from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu and about 3 hours 20 minutes to El Calafate.
Head into the city after landing, stroll around Plaza de Mayo and Casa Rosada, explore the San Telmo neighbourhood in the afternoon, and enjoy the city lights at the Obelisco and Avenida 9 de Julio in the evening.
Visit the colourful Caminito street and La Bombonera stadium in La Boca in the morning, check out the modern architecture in Puerto Madero in the afternoon, and catch a tango show in the evening to experience the city’s soul.
Explore Recoleta Cemetery and the art gallery in the morning, then head to Palermo Park and shopping area in the afternoon. Fly to Puerto Iguazu in the evening.
Arrive in Puerto Iguazu and visit the Triple Frontier landmark in the afternoon to observe the confluence of the Iguazu and Paraná rivers and take in the meeting point of three countries.
Spend the whole day exploring Iguazu National Park, walking the Devil’s Throat catwalk and the upper and lower trails. Optional boat rides let you get close to the falls. Bring a rain jacket—the catwalks get very misty.