FD ICE RIVERS: Upsala & Onelli Glaciers

Departure from the hotel to Puerto Banderas, located 50 Kms from  El Calafate, to embark on the catamaran which will sail through the North Arm of Argentino Lake until it approaches the front wall of Upsala Glacier, going through the amazing barrier of icebergs which constantly break off the glacier wall. Upsala Glacier is the biggest glacier in Los Glaciares National Park with a surface of 1.000 Km2 . The glacier is constant receding and the process has been speeded in the last decade due to the notorious global heating, specially affecting this particular glacier because  most of its frontal surface  is floating on the  water surface.
From here the navigation continues through Onelli Channel till Onelli Bay where you will disembark to start a 800 meters hike through the Andean-Patagonian forest to the homonymous lagoon where Onelli, Bolado, and Agassiz Glaciers descend from the surrounding mountains approaching the water surface, filling it with  infinity of icebergs which enhance the exquisite beauty of the place.
Lunch at Onelli Bay(Optional).
When the weather conditions make impossible to disembark at Onelli Bay, the catamaran will moor at Las Vacas Pier, a place located near Spegazzini Glacier,  where  a refuge that was once used for the trekking excursions to the Continental Ice Field is located.
Return to Punta Bandera and transfer to the hotel.(arriving at 6 PM approximately).

Daily departures from November to April- Departure: 08.00 AM/ Arrival: 6.00 PM
Tour length: 10 hours.