Lago Argentina El Calafate

Op vrijdag 9 december namen we een vlucht naar El Calafate. We stond op om 7u en om 8.05u zaten we al op het vliegtuig. Ontbijten, taxirit (20min!) en inchecken zijn echt nog nooit zo snel gegaan. We hadden feitelijk pas een vlucht om 9.40u maar aangezien er nog plaats was op de vlucht voor de onze hebben ze er ons meteen nog snel …

After a leisurely flight from Buenos Aires we arrived in El Calafate, a popular tourist destination for those wishing to visit different parts of the Los Glaciares National Park, including the Perito Moreno Glacier.

We went to El Calafate with the intention of doing a 'mini trek' on the Glacier and checking out any other scenery that the …

Ok so we did eventually touchdown in El Calafate this morning and wowee, the trip was worth it already! Coming in on the plane we had clear blue skies and great views of the brown rocky ground with river beds wriggling through it and patterns from I guess the wind or different kindsa of rock. Once the water was in view it was the most brilliant …

... Laura and I. Laura’s birthday was on the 20th of March and mine is a few days later so we had dinner and drinks in El Calafate. It was a great night and you can see from the photos, the mixed grill that was meant for 4 was swiftly polished off by ...

On bumpy Patagonian gravel roads, I have made my way about four hours north of El Calafate, to the tiny village of El Chaltén. I am here to do a few day hikes and hopefully get a glimpse of Cerro Fitz Roy. From El Chaltén I hoped to continue north for ...

... curly hair. Lucky for my photos, I opted for the latter! I took an early morning bus from Puerto Natales to El Calafate, Argentina. It was a spontaneous decision I made the night before. My original plans were to fly back to Santiago and take a 22 ...

... the continent. Patagonia: a barren, windy expanse of dusty bleakness punctuated by the contrast of glistening lakes and volcanic hills. El Calafate is the base town for the nearby Glaciers. They have formed over millennia from Andean ice fields being ...

... doing unique things, that it is becoming one of the main aspects of this travel to learn about there lifes. One example from El Calafate, a Canadian couple, about 60 years old, he sold his house in Canada, bought a boot, started to sail in the ...

From Ushuaia it was just a small hop back to the mainland of Argentina to El Calafate, in the Parque Nacional de los Glaciares. And again, some absolutely spectacular scenery. First stop for us was the Perito Mereno Glacier, which is nearest to the ...

... , the noise of massive forces squeezing together. This is the sounds of the  Glaciar Perito Moreno , 80 km from  El Calafate, trying to squeeze between 2 rock mountain headlands as it heads to Lago Argentino (Lake Argentina). This stunning ...

... (one month) with three stops in Patagonia. This wild and wintry bit at the bottom is artificially split between Chile and Argentina - I think they chose the highest mountains to decide the border. Leaving our tour in Santiago we stayed in Chile and spent ...

... in the distance, where covered in snow. It was chilly here. I had my rain suit on for the warmth. We rode into El Calafate and turned onto a gravel road to check into a hostel Lynn researched on the internet, only to find they were fully booked, but ...

... . These pictures may give some impression of what it's like. The glacier is about 80 km west of El Calafate in Patagonia, in southern Argentina. It's more than 200 square kilometres in area, and is just one of many flowing down from the Patagonian ...