Patagonia is definitely the most visited region of Argentina. 

To ease the search for tours, we have divide Patagonia into its 3 natural regions:

The Southern Lakes
Central Patagonia
Southern Patagonia


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TOURS STARTING FROM THE SOUTHERN LAKES REGION (Bariloche)
The region of the lakes is a group of National Parks of incredible beauty. Vast extensions of virgin forests surround innumerable lakes with the remarkable frame of the Cordillera Austral Patagonica, where nature offers a different scenery each season of the year. In winter (June to September), the captivating snowed hills make skiing a local passion. In the summer (December to March), the exuberant flora transforms everything into a symphony of colors. In autumn, the landscape changes as forest are covered with leaves of different shades of ochre, yellow and red contrasting with the remaining evergreen vegetation. 
LAKE CROSSING - Bariloche is the starting point of the famous International Lake Crossing from Argentina to Chile (or viceversa). From Monday to Saturday (Sep 1 to Apr 30) you will be able to cross the Lake in 1 day from Bariloche to Puerto Montt. From Monday to Friday (Jan 2 to Feb 28 and May 2 to Aug 31) you will be able to cross in 2 days with an overnight in Peulla.

TOURS STARTING FROM THE CENTRAL PATAGONIA  REGION (Peninsula Valdes - Comodoro Rivadavia)
Its coasts, with numerous geographical irregularities that form gulfs, bays, estuaries and cliffs that dive in the green water of the Atlantic Ocean, are the center of a wide variety of marine fauna while in its core, the plateau possess the biggest and oldest fossilized trees of the planet. The Moreno Glacier of Santa Cruz is one of the world's few advancing glaciers: a 60-metre-high river of rising, toppling and exploding ice. In the Valdés Peninsula the sea elephants have the only continental enclave in the world, a magical place where the southern whales regularly come to the Nuevo and San José gulfs to breed. Patagonian hares, ñandúes (South American ostrich) and guanacos run about the steppes and the largest colony of Magellan penguins in the world nest at Punta Tombo. 

TOURS STARTING FROM THE SOUTHERN PATAGONIA REGION (Lago Argentino - Ushuaia)
It is difficult to describe the beauty of the Andes mountains in the provinces of Patagonia. The southwest extreme of Patagonia offers resources unique in the world. The Los Glaciares National Park heads this long list of places with granite peaks and ice fields whose glacial tongues end in lakes of unequaled beauty.Silent forests a thousand years old where the vegetation reaches down to the shores of calm pools of water. And to the South, Tierra del Fuego and Ushuaia the most southern enclave in the world and the open door to the immense and mysterious Antarctic. 
SAIL TO THE END OF THE EARTH - From Ushuaia you can take a cruise to the Antarctic or go on a catamaran trip along the Beagle Channel where you can see seals, Magellan penguins, cormorants and other sea birds

 

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