From El Calafate you can take tours in an important fleet of buses for excursions, modern boats, bilingual specialized guides and many more things.

Travel agencies organize tours and excursions that go from the classical viewpoint of the glacier Perito Moreno to audacious expeditions that go through the glaciers from one side to the other.

The variety of excursions that are offered form El Calafate satisfy every taste, always enjoining the best landscapes.

Besides, it can be done visits to typical farms of the zone, take cavalcade, excursions in 4x4 and other outdoors activities.

This archeological place has an original geologic conformation, sedimentary rock and steppe vegetation. You can see eaves and natural caves that the prehistoric man used.

Some of them where used by them to do their cave paintings. Nowadays there is plenty of information to understand this sacred and mysterious art that dates from the 4000 BC.

These great cave paintings can be visited through path of interpretation in which the visitors will be in front of an amazing culture in an authentic fantasy atmosphere.

Antique Commission of Public Works the regional museum El Calafate offers to its visitors a great gallery with archeological material.

In it you will find “boleadoras”, cut stones, tip arrows, flora, fauna, birds, geologic material, and many other things.

You can also see thing that reminds of the history of the place such as antique photos of the first inhabitants.

This museum can be visited in the morning or in the afternoon; it also has access for wheelchair and all the exhibited information has been translated to braile system.

In the city tour there is the possibility of visiting the marvelous sites that El Calafate offers in a comfortable bus.

This service has a guide who is in charge of taking you through the history of the first inhabitants, the flora, fauna and other interesting details of this small place.

The circuit visits the main street of the antique town showing the typical first building of the pioneers.

A visit to Nimez lagoon that is a few meters to the coast of the Argentinian lake, a visit to the farms where fine fruits are grown and the Centre of Historic Interpretation where you will learn about the important history facts that happened here.

This ecological reserve is located at just a few kilometers of the commercial centre of this touristic village in a zone close to the Argentinian Lake.

In the reserve of the birdfauna of Nimez Lagoon stands out nearly 80 species of beautiful and colorful birds that display all its elegance to those who visit it.

Among the main species there are flamingos, the cauquenes, the swans of black neck, the bandurrias, the teros and the ducks. It is an ideal place to enjoy the dawn or sunsets in summer.

Besides, there is the possibility of doing guided tours with a bilingual explanation about the main characteristic of each specie and its relation with the habitat.

Some of the most outstanding places to visit which are also really close to El Calafate are: National Park The Glaciers that has a wide range of expeditions and excursions for every taste, and also Ushuaia, another beautiful place on the south of Argentina.