Vinciguerra Glacier Tours and Tickets

Gear up for an exhilarating mountain adventure on a small-group trek to Vinciguerra Glacier and Tempanos Lagoon. A quick drive from Ushuaia leads you to the trailhead, where a diverse range of wild trails awaits. With your guide, you’ll traverse through the Fuegian forest, climbing 600 meters in elevation, and emerge above the tree line at the lagoon. Weather permitting, the group will circle the lagoon to glimpse the glacier’s crevices.

A promotion that will test you from the beginning. We tour a Ramsar site, recognized as a wetland of international relevance. The rivers, beaver dams, peat bogs and glaciers protect a water resource of great importance for nature. The guide explains everything about the terrain, vegetation and glacier. As we leave the vegetation behind, we can contemplate the mark that glacial erosion has left in the surroundings. Upon arriving at Laguna de los Tempanos, we prepare to enjoy this beautiful place to begin approaching the Glacier. A unique experience in the city!

We leave the hotel heading north through the upper part of the city towards the Andorra Valley, where the trail that will take us to the Vinciguerra Glacier begins. Along the way we will enjoy a variety of landscapes such as peat bogs, lush forests of lenga trees and end in the high altitude valley of the Milk River, which is located in the vicinity of the glacier. Here you can take advantage of the wonderful views of the area, and if the weather is good we will take a short break. We continue along the side of the river and finally reach the Laguna de los Témpanos. Here we will continue bordering the lagoon until we reach the imposing Vinciguerra Glacier. The landscape will reveal a mysterious world of crevasses and sinkholes that you will be able to immortalize in photographs. Once the experience is over, we resume our march, in this case descending towards the Andorra Valley, and then return with the transfer to the hotel.

Explore the breathtaking landscapes of Tierra del Fuego on a challenging day hike to the Vinciguerra Glacier. This trek takes you through enchanting native forests and across deep peat bogs, culminating at a stunning glacial lagoon at the foot of a towering ice giant. Covering approximately 13 kilometers with an elevation gain of 600 meters, the 7-hour hike demands physical fitness as you navigate steep climbs and uneven terrain in a truly wild environment.

Our experience seeks to personalize the service to the maximum, ensuring that our traveling friends can contemplate a very complete trekking in the best possible way. We arrived at this magnificent place, crossing a valley, a peat bog and ascending the rocky slope of a mountain. The views of the glacier and the Laguna de los Témpanos are unmissable. We begin the walk in the valley of Andorra, where after crossing ancient peat bogs we enter the Fuegian forest, gaining altitude until we reach the shores of the Laguna de los Témpanos where we will have impressive views of the Vinciguerra Glacier. After exploring the surroundings and touching the ice, we will enjoy the box lunch and begin the return walk.

Welcome to one of the most impressive natural wonders of Ushuaia: The Vinciguerra glacier is a spectacle of nature. With its ice peaks rising into the blue sky and its imposing crevasses, this glacier will take your breath away. Its shades of bright blue and white contrast with the surrounding landscape of forests and mountains, creating a stunning and photogenic sight.

We leave from the hotel towards the Tierra Mayor Valley, the guide will give us the instructions to start the journey together, crossing the valley in the middle of the winter night, a path of torches marks the WAY to the entrance to the forest until we reach the hut, where the cook awaits us with the brochettes and the native stew cooked on the fire. Fuegian wines and the specialty of the night, "the Hachero's coffee", dinner is nuanced with a guitar. The return is decided by you at this moment: according to the option you choose when booking: You can return by snowmobiling or walking with snowshoe equipment. You will always be with a guide who will accompany you in this incredible Ushuaia Night experience

Explore the Vinciguerra Glacier, the Témpanos Lagoon, and the Andorran Valley on this full-day trekking excursion. In a small group of 15 or fewer, follow your guide through pristine natural scenery off the beaten path. Enjoy a boxed lunch at the glacier's foot. Round-trip hotel pickup and drop-off from selected Ushuaia hotels are included for convenience.

Make the most of your limited time in Ushuaia on a small-group hiking tour to Tempranos Lagoon. With a guide navigating every step, you won’t have to worry about wrong turns or missing the best viewpoints. The invigorating trek takes you to Glaciar Vinciguerra, where you can touch the glacial ice. Refuel with a complimentary box lunch with a bottle of water, then return to Ushuaia.

Departure from the hotel towards the Tierra Mayor Valley, in this great snow-covered valley we begin the journey in sleds pulled by Huskies, after crossing the valley we enter the forest by an old lumberjack path, in the middle of this hundred-year-old Lenga forest we arrive at the refuge del Hachero (small log cabin heated by firewood). We say goodbye to the Huskies and our guide helps us put on our snowshoes (without which we would not be able to walk due to the thickness of the snow that normally reaches a meter), the objective: The Alvear Icefall and the Valle viewpoint, the Returning to the refuge is faster and more fun since it is downhill and culminates in the Hachero refuge. In the refuge we recover energy with a hot chocolate. From the logger's refuge we return to the Tierra Mayor valley walking with snowshoes.