Glacier Perito Moreno

See it before you pay for it

Three ways people see the Perito Moreno Glacier

The balconies come with every tour: tiered walkways in Los Glaciares National Park, built straight across the channel from the ice wall, where blocks calve off into the water and the sound arrives a second later. The boat runs about an hour on Brazo Rico and shows you the same wall from lake level. The ice trek is the third way in — crampons on, a guide ahead, and the surface of the glacier under your own boots.

Side by side

Walkways, the boat hour, or crampons on the glacier

People book these interchangeably and then find out they bought different days. The walkway tours run eight hours from El Calafate and give you the balconies opposite the ice wall, which is what most photographs of this glacier are taken from. The boat versions add roughly an hour on Lago Argentino in front of the same wall. The trekking days are longer and cost more because a guide takes a small group onto the ice in crampons — an hour up there on the mini trekking, most of the day on Big Ice.

Two-minute check

Which Perito Moreno day fits yours?

Three things decide it: whether the balconies are enough or you want the ice under your feet, whether you want the hour on Lago Argentino built into the price rather than sold at the pier, and how long a day you are willing to give it — eight hours for the classic trip, eleven for the trekking and cruise, twelve for Big Ice. Answer three questions and find out before you pay rather than at the pickup.

Six ways to spend the day

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What it really costs

What a Perito Moreno Glacier tour costs, line by line

Prices are per person and cover the round trip from El Calafate, the drive into Los Glaciares National Park and the time on the walkways opposite the ice wall. What moves the number is what you add to that: the hour on Lago Argentino, or a guided walk on the glacier in crampons, which needs a small group and gear for everyone in it.

The honest answer

Is a Perito Moreno Glacier tour worth it?

Sixty dollars buys a full day out of El Calafate, and the question is really about the other four hundred. The balconies are in every ticket and they put you straight across from an ice wall that drops blocks into the channel on its own schedule. Paying more buys proximity: an hour on Lago Argentino level with the wall, or crampons, a rope of guides and the surface of the glacier itself. The trekking day rated 4.8 across 852 reviews is the one most people pick once they have seen both.

What it's like

One glacier, three ways to stand in front of it

If the balconies are not enough

The three days that put crampons on your feet

Most of this page looks at the glacier. These three stand on it. The equipment is supplied, a guide leads the route between the cracks and sinkholes, and each of them carries the walkways and time on the water as well. They are the longest days here, and the listings state their own age and fitness notes.

Practical

Plan the day

Five things decide how it goes: which of the sixteen tours you take, whether the boat hour is in your price or waiting at the pier, what you wear on the walkways where the wind comes off the ice, how early you book the trekking days that run small groups, and which month you come to El Calafate.

Best time

When to come

Tours run all year, because the road from El Calafate into Los Glaciares stays open and the walkways stay open with it. What changes month to month is daylight, how crowded the balconies get, and whether the ice treks are running their full roster.

Worth knowing

Six things that aren't in the listing

Common questions

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