The shopping center and casino in Mar del Plata

Mar del Plata Beach is an important bathing resort city of Argentina. It is the preferred beach city in Argentina for the gay community because it has a growing gay nightlife scene.

It is located to 414 kilometers of the city of Buenos Aires, in the Province of Buenos Aires.

Mar del Plata Beach is a modern city that brings a coast of more than 17 kilometers with beaches and one impressive infrastructure of services: hotels of all the categories, commercial pensions, restaurants, bars, discos, cinemas, theaters and galleries. Also it has the biggest casino of the world!

The development of Mar del Plata as a seasonal resort in the early 20th century led upper class tourists from Buenos Aires to build a European-inspired architecture, based mainly on the picturesque and later on the art deco styles. This gave Mar del Plata the nickname of the Argentine Biarritz.

Mar del Plata gay

Its numerous parks, squares and gardens, with colorful varied flowers offer the tourist a singular surrounding landscape.

Two exits are inevitable in Mar del Plata: to go to the port to eat fish and to buy sweaters in the factories.

Enjoy the sea sun sand in Mar del Plata! Spend a couple of days at this magnificient city. See you in Mar del Plata!

Los Glacieres National Park

On the southwestern Argentine side, there are more than 300 glaciers, some of them in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Glacier National Park, extends for 217 miles (350 km) along the Andes. Los Glaciares is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and includes ice fields covering about 40% of the surface, two lakes and 47 major glaciers. Thirteen glaciers reach toward the Atlantic, while the glaciers Perito Moreno, Mayo, Spegazzini, Upsala, Agassiz, Onelli, Ameghino feed the lakes in the park. Among them is Lago Argentino, the largest lake in Argentina, and already 15,000 years old.

History of the Perito Moreno Glacier

Looking west at Glacier (Perito) Moreno from Cerro Buenos Aires

Perito Moreno is named for Francisco Pascasio Moreno, whose nickname was Perito. More formally known as Dr. Francisco P. Moreno, Honoris Causa, (1852-1919), he was the first Argentine to travel the area and his Reminiscencias Del Perito Moreno were later compiled by his son. Moreno gave the Argentine nation the land that became Nahuel Napi National Park. Many places in southwestern Argentina are named for him. It was he who named Cerro Fitzroy after the captain of HMS Beagle.

Advice: when visiting the glacier, you can see gigantic pieces of ice break away with a thunderous crack and plunge into the water (a process called “calving”). It’s awesome, don’t miss it.

Ice break away at The Perito Moreno Glacier

Get a trip to Argentine Patagonia, starting in Ushuaia, and enjoy the fantastic view of the south seas as well as its unique Fagnano and Escondido Lakes, its lengas forest, and the End of the World Prison. If you want to, you can also ride the End of the World Train. Enjoy it!

Ushuaia, the southern city in the World is waiting for us to show us the wonderful ocean views, its lengas woods and its spectacular Fagnano and Escondido lakes. You will also be able to enjoy the trip on the legendary End of the World Train and visit the famous End of the World Prison, today turned into a museum.

For this package to Ushuaia and Tierra del Fuego, Buenos Aires Gay Travel has selected the best hotels in each category so that you can choose the one you prefer.

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