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From El Calafate: Estancia Nibepo Aike Tour

By Estancia Nibepo Aike
Free cancellation available
Price is £81 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 7h+
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview
  • Discover the history of the pioneers of this recondite place
  • Learn about a typical Patagonian Estancia
  • Watch a sheep shearing demonstration
  • Enjoy a delicious roast of Patagonian Lamb

Activity location

    • El Calafate
    • El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • El Calafate
    • El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina

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Half-Day Tour
  • Activity duration is 7 hours7h
    7h
  • English

Choose this option to take a half-day morning tour with lunch with 1 drink and a bilingual Spanish and English-speaking guide.

Starting time: 08:15
Price details
£81.33 x 1 Adult£81.33

Total
Price is £81.33
Full day tour + Cristales horse ride
  • Activity duration is 12 hours12h
    12h
  • English

Choose this option to take a full-day tour with 3-hours of horseback riding, lunch and a bilingual Spanish and English-speaking guide.

Starting time: 08:15
Price details
£137.53 x 1 Adult£137.53

Total
Price is £137.53

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Hotel pickup and drop-off from El Calafate
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Lunch or dinner (depending on start time)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    3-hour or 45-minute horseback ride (depending on option chosen)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Drinks during the meal
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Coffee
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Breakfast/tea
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Bilingual Spanish and English-speaking guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Horseback riding (if option without is chosen)

Know before you book

  • Not allowed: Drones, Pets
  • Not suitable for: Children under 11 years, People with mobility impairments
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Depart from El Calafate and set off along the provincial Route 15, also known as 'The Road to the Estancias'. Keep your eyes peeled for condors, foxes, and hares along the way. Admire the scenery as you cross Rico River and watch as the landscape becomes more mountainous. Travel along the edge of Roca Lake and enter Los Glaciares National Park to reach the Estancia.

When you arrive, be welcomed by your host and head into the rustic dining room. Have a hot drink (tea, coffee, or mate) accompanied by home-made cakes and pastries. Enjoy this good moment to pause and take in the magnificent view of the Andes mountain range. Then, start your walk around the main buildings of this typical Patagonian estancia which was formerly devoted to sheep rearing. Nowadays, it has become the most prestigious Hereford breeding ranch in the area, while still retaining a small herd of sheep.

At the stables, enjoy an optional horse ride and go out to explore the surroundings accompanied by a guide. Alternatively, take a good long walk with excellent views of the Southern Arm of Lago Argentino. Discover the diverse rocky outcrops eroded by glacial action and incredible geological formations. Follow the footpath through native woodland - a habitat for an abundant variety of native flora and fauna. Keep your eyes peeled for caranchos, parakeets, hares, woodpeckers, and eagles.

After the walk or horse ride, meet the group at the shearing shed. See inside and learn about the work of the team through a shearing demonstration. Listen and watch as the process is described from the shearing of the animal to the baling of the fleece, ready for the wool to be stored and transported. Then, watch a horse-handling demonstration. During the day, also participate in the morning cow milking and in the afternoon sheep herding.

Finally, return to the dining room and sit down to enjoy some tasty Patagonian roast lamb while enjoying the impressive view of the mountain range. Return to El Calafate at the end of the day where your tour concludes.

Location

Activity location

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    • El Calafate
    • El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • El Calafate
    • El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina