All Glaciers

This lacustrine excursion starts at 50 km. from El Calafate, taking routes 11 and 5 to board at Puerto Bandera and navigate some 70 km. along the north branch of Lake Argentino.

Once you go through Boca del Diablo, the narrowest point of the Lake, you begin the trip along the North Branch of the lake. Throughout the tour you will be able to observe an incredible scenery and a variety of shapes and colors, in the enormous blocks of ice detaching from the majestic Upsala Glacier, the biggest one on the National Park. After you pass the front wall of this glacier the navigation continues to Puerto Las Vacas in the Onelli Bay.

There the catamaran stops for three hours to allow for an 800 meter walk through a Patagonic forest of Lengas and Ñires (regional trees) up to Lake Onelli. At this point you will experience fantastic views of the Onelli, Bolados, Agassiz and Heim glaciers; which give away to the Lake small icebergs that drift up to its outfall in the Onelli river.

Sometimes the return trip is done by entering the channel of the Spegazzini Glacier where you will find yourself in the middle of the mountain of ice with the presence of the Heim, Seco and Spegazzini glaciers, with walls at record heights among the visited glaciers reaching in some sectors 125 meters.
This excursion may be reversed due climatic conditions.


After this fascinating trip you will not be able to forget Patagonia. Fortunately, your films and photos will remind you that it was not a dream.