Perito Moreno Glacier El Calafate

Oh M G, it felt so great to sleep in a bed last night, and of course, to take a shower! Wash my hair, exfoliate, shave, ahhh. Life's luxuries we take for granted...

7 AM, one last delicious breakfast at The Singing lamb. Clancy and I have been calling the care lady ´´Aunty Susan´´. Clancy thinks that will be me when I grow up.

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Le Perito Moreno en Argentine, c'est comme le Mont Blanc en France, tout le monde connait son nom, c'est l'un des glaciers les lus connus du monde et tout le monde nous l'a dit, c'est vraiment un site exceptionnel. Ce qui me fait un peu peur avec les sites de cette importance, c'est le côté touristique qu´ils peuvent avoir parfois et qui peut compl …

Il ghiacciao del Perito Moreno e gigantesco... bellissimo...da sensazioni fortissime... e come stare in un altro mondo... sembra la casa di Superman!!!

Passegiarci sopra e stato fantastico!!! Il ghiaccio con quel bianco e blu che splende al sole e bellissimo. Da quasi una sensazioni di maesta e calma... quasi piu di Iguazu. A Iguazu era il …

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Le voyage continue par un retour en Argentine, j'ai compté que je traverserai 5 fois cette frontière ce qui fait plein de jolies couleurs dans le passeport mais beaucoup de temps perdu à chaque fois! Enfin, nous voici arrivés à El Calafate …

So after our late night meat feast we are up at 6am for our 7am pickup to our Glaciers Cruise. The pickup obviously doesn't arrive until 7:30 by which time I am thinking "if it doesn’t come I can go back to bed" quite gleefully.

It arrived.

We drive for about an hour to the Glaciers National Park and to my surprise we have …

We get to sleep in today – we are up at 6.30am for a 7.30 pickup which arrived on time this time. We are headed again to the Glaciers National Park but today we are getting up close and personal with the Perito Moreno Glacier! I am super excited.

And then we transfer to another coach… and then it takes an hour to drive there …

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 …

Man fährt eigentlich nach El Calafate, um den Gletscher Perito Moreno anzuschauen. Der liegt 80 km entfernt und man muss da erst einmal hinkommen. Da wir keine Lust hatten eine Tour zu buchen haben wir ein Auto gemietet und sind selber dorthin gefahren. Das war auch ein gutes Gefühl, mal wieder selber am Steuer zu sitzen! ;)

Der Gletscher …

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 …

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... !), we have passed one petrol station, and no shops. And no shower . . . But now we have arrived in El Calafate, to see the Perito Moreno Glacier, which apparently is fantastic. We had hoped not to have to cycle all the way here as it is 20 miles ...

... of the glacier, it's enough to say that it can contain the entire area of Buenos Aires". I'm in El Calafate, the gateway town to the Perito Moreno Glacier. A very touristy town, with tons of hotels, hostels and restaurants. I have problems finding ...

... up for a picnic. Drive is just over an hour away along the lake and then towards the amazing mountainscape. First approach the glacier which is gigantic and are awestruck by it. Have to negotiate a number of coaches to park up and then start to walk ...

... my birthday around the corner, we drive down further into the cold and stopped off at the town of El Calafate, our base for a visit to the Perito Moreno Glacier. This glacier is one of the most beautiful glaciers in the world. Standing at 60m in height, ...

... it's cold. El Calafate, on the shore of Lake Argentina, is the town from which to visit the famous 30km-long Perito Moreno Glacier. From a distance, the glacier looks like it's made from the kind of polystyrene you get when unpacking a new freezer. ...

... internet down here in Patagonia is too slow and expensive to update. After Nick left I flew down to Calafate in patagonia, and visited the Perito Moreno glacier yesterday. Today I took the bus to Chalten and will spend the next few days hiking around the ...

... 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 Perito Moreno Glacier is one of the classic Patagonian must-sees.  It is a river of ice three miles wide, and towers 200 feet above the lake it empties into.  The amazing thing is that the ice is also goes down another 350 feet below the ...

... of the lake, exceptionally friendly staff and little luxuries such as underfloor heating. From here we took a day tour to see the Perito Moreno Glacier which is an amazing sight. At one end of lake Argentina it is 5km wide and 32km long - it is hard ...

... all Glaciers We leave behind windy El Chalten and arrive in El Calafate, a tourist town which is the base to view the Perito Moreno Glacier. Because of the front of the Glaciers position, directly opposite a cliff, it makes it one of the easiest ...