Adventure tourism implies to carry out activities with adrenaline, sports that in our place of origin are not possible whether for the natural setting or because we do not have predisposition for the adventure. Mountaineering, trekking, cavalcades. Hang gliding, paragliding, flights with and without motor, hot air balloons. Whitewater rafting, navigation in kayak, boating, windsurfing and diving. These, among others, are the activities that take place in Argentina with different levels of difficulty. It is not only the activity which can vary, but also the settings that make this type of tourism even more exciting.
Activities and regions: White water and Rafting: Some of the outstanding places for the practice of this sport are: Atuel River (San Rafael, Mendoza), Manso River (Bariloche, Rio Negro), Juramento River (Salta), Hua-Hum River (San Martin de los Andes, Neuquén), Aluminé River (Pehuenia Village, Neuquén), among others. To the traditional rafting is added: doky, runners (sit on top), col river, river kayak.
Crossing Kayak and Boating: humid Pampa and the rivers of the Litoral Plain are perfect settings for the practice of these disciplines. There are purely sports proposals of long breath as the rivers Paraná, Carcarañá, Bermejo or Uruguay, and other oriented to the ecotourism, like the tours though the ecosystem of Chaco, by the estuaries of Iberá, or the forest of Parana, in Missions. The crossings in the Northeast of the country add visits to native communities situated in the heart of the mount and the sight of wild fauna that go closer to the water during the months of drought.
Diving: the Argentine sea and especially Puerto Madryn, is the goal of the ambitious divers that desire to visit underwater parks and remainders of shipwrecks. Lake Traful is also a noticeable destiny inside the mountain range and the Estuaries of Iberá.
Nautical: The extensive Atlantic seaboard that shares seaways has attracted navigators of the entire world for centuries. In the center of the country, the crossing of the Rio de la Plata to the Uruguayan ports as Colony of Sacramento, satisfies the nautical tradition of clubs of Buenos Aires. The channels in Tierra del Fuego, the Island of the States or the Falklands Islands, are marine challenges of myth. Ushuaia is a complete port for whose who think about Antarctica.
Windsurfing and Kitesurf: Nahuel Huapi lake reaffirms their Patagonian hegemony for windsurfing and kitesurf, while the dike Cuesta del Viento, in a desolate spot of San Juan province, is the great surprise among the lovers of these sports, with winds that can even stop the kits from unfolding. In the coast of Buenos Aires, Pinamar, Mar del Plata and Monte Hermoso, are ideals for the practice of these sports. Also the lake Nihuil in San Rafael.
Surfing: the Atlantic coast of Buenos Aires province possesses an extensive runner of around 100 kilometers of beaches characterized by its good conditions for the practice of the surfing.
BY AIR:
Paragliding and Hang gliding: the free flight in Argentina has a lot of margin to explore and to experience. The pre mountain range chains of the west and the northwest, of dry and semiarid climate suppose an enormous potential to fly in paragliding or hang gliding. The center of the country, with mountains of Cordoba and San Luis, attracts the sportsmen too. Finally, the North Patagonia offers all what it has, and the experimental tests already performed suggest the creation of a ramp in the zone of the glaciers.
Parachuting: Lobos, a city of Buenos Aires, has been declared " national capital of the parachuting". Nevertheless, there are flight centers in important cities of the oriental plain of the country. The leaps of baptism are carried out mainly in the provinces of Santa Fe, Cordoba and Buenos Aires but they are possible also in Chaco, La Pampa and Neuquén, among others.
Fly in Globe: crossings in globe leave from the outskirts of Buenos Aires city. Typical towns as Capilla del Señor, function like place of takeoff. There, the life of the ranchos marks the cultural rhythm of the inhabitants. The destinies of tourism of Cordoba, like Villa Carlos Paz and Sierras Chicas, also offer flights in hot air balloons during the holidays season.
Fly in Sailplane: The Andes Mountain Range was setting of various records of distance and height for the flight in sailplanes. Each day the Patagonian sky sees how the quantity of sailplanes multiplied from its main cities as San Carlos of Bariloche or San Martin of the Andes.
BY LAND:
Trekking: From the Highland to Ushuaia, from the rainforests to the continental ice, for lovers of trekking these lands resemble the paradise. Thousands of kilometers of The Andes Mountain Range and of smaller mountain ranges turn Argentina into an unique and interminable setting for trekking.
Mountaineering: the opportunity of extreme and sport escalation, in rock or in ice, rappel or Tyrolean is possible in Argentina. Hills as the Aconcagua -the highest one of West, with 6,959 meters-, Fitz Roy and Tower, are popular all around the world. Argentina includes nine of the twelve highest summits of America. And as if that were not enough, the Tronador, the needles of the Cathedral, the virgin summits of Tierra del Fuego, the suggestive Sierras de Cordoba and Tandil, and the height trekking in Catamarca, Salta and Jujuy.
Mountain bike: numerous circuits were layout only for them to be traveled by bicycle. Besides, the mountainous cords of the center and the west of the country give rise to spectacular "slopes" of great unevenness, like Cuesta del Obispo (Salta), Cuesta de Miranda (La Rioja), among others. Several expeditions of crossing to Chile take routes suitable for mountain bike.
Cavalcades: on a horse is possible to travel through mountains, forests, rainforests, plains and beaches, and to negotiate the natural obstacles as rivers or steep slopes. Expeditions of several days crossing the mountain Range, walks by the estuaries sighting carayá monkeys, adornment of cattle to the way of the native man, are some of the possibilities.
All-terrain: enormous distances and the difficulties of the land are the key of the success. The possibility to reach inhospitable or of-unsuspected beauty spots, crossing the Highland, Sierras de Cordoba, the rainforest of Misiones, the lowest cords of The Andes Mountain Range of and the Patagonian plateau.
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