TOUR CIRCUIT OPTIONS

Ushuaia offers visitors innumerable tour circuits that will take you to heavenly spots within a vast geographic area including all kinds of landscapes of unmatched beauty, with the magic and enchantment of storybook rivers, mountains, steppes, lakes, forests, valleys and glaciers.

Tours for all tastes and budgets are accessible. You may arrange your own tailor-made program, because Tierra del Fuego and the city of Ushuaia are capable of offering unconventional sightseeing trips in addition to the conventional tours. You may decide from the cultural, social and sports events in the yearly calendar of activities.

Our visitors should be aware that they are the fortunate visitors of one of the world's few areas which have remained almost untouched by mankind. This is what makes us sure that you will not find your stay to Tierra del Fuego unsatisfactory.

The best way of clasifiing the tours is by north, central and south areas.

- North
- Central
- Antarctica
- South

NORTH

This is where we can find the typical Patagonian bas--relief plateau - rounded, low, hills with low vegetation. This area has major livestock (especially sheep) farming establishments, many of which are expressly prepared to receive tourists, and some of which also include oil and natural gas wells.

To the north of Ushuaia, at a distance of 230 km stands the city of Ro Grande.
Founded July 11, 1921, it is on the shore of the Argentine Sea close to the mouth of the river with the same name. This area special attraction is the internationally famous major trout fishing facilities. Lately, thanks to a special promotion law, the city has become a focal point for the assembly and production of electronic equipment.

In 1893, Salesian missionaries of Nuestra Seora de la Candelaria chose this city as an evangelical center for the conversion of the local Selknam aborigines. Monsignor Fagnano, a member of the Don Bosco, was the head of the mission. When the local population vanished, the mission building became the area's first preparatory school, and in 1983 it called a National Historical Monument. The Chapel, the Mission, the building housing the Mara Auxiliadora sisters and the "Monseor Fagnano Regional Museum" make up an attractive circuit to relive the past in this remote area.

By Route "B" or RP 8, a gravel road paralleling the Rio Grande, one may travel to the west, passing on by the Estancias (ranches) Cauchicol, Despedida, Aurelia, San Jos and San Justo, up to the Chilean border.

On Route "C" or RP 5, at km 20, is "Estancia Mara Behety", dating from 1899, named after the wife of a wealthy Spanish merchant Jos Menndez. This ranch has an architecture that is called "rustic Fueguian style" (mostly twentieth century), and features a huge Shearing Barn.