Upsala Glacier 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 …

After two good days in BA, we flew down to El Calafate in Patagonia. We were definitely not prepared for how cold it would be there! While the actual temperature wasn't too bad, coming from 30+ degrees in BA it was a shock to the system. The wind was pretty chilly as well. The upside is that there is daylight until about 10:30pm every night.
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... icebergs. Beautiful, desolate and wind-swept scenery stretches out as far as the eye can see. And 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, ...

... clearly not on as it was only after a few hours the Lady started to point out the telltale signs. To get to the first Glacier, the Upsala Glacier (595 sq km and 60 km long, took well over an hour and we were constantly on the lookout for condors and ...

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 ...

... , an unforgettable event, at least for me. There are two glaciers that are considered "moving", Perito Moreno glacier and Upsala glacier. This remarkable southern wonder has unusual glacial characteristics: unlike other glaciers that are formed at 2500 ...

... . Sweet livin. Lisa is notoriously car/sea sick but she was perpared with her patch. Our main destination was the Upsala glacier, which is the biggest glacier in all of South America (3 miles wide, 37 miles long and 197 feet ...

... there, we picnicked on the lakeshore and then walked along the shoreline before returning to the boat. We sailed to the front of the Upsala Glacier and stood 800 m in front of it for about half an hour. Once again, I saw nothing calve off it but it ...

... to be said as a 3:45am wakeup for a 4:30am bus, several painful border crossings into Chile and back to Argentina (the only road to El Calafate from Ushuaia goes through Chile), pizza in a supermarket cafe and another bus arriving at 1am in -5 degree ...

... a bigger boat so it was a bit tricky sometimes to get our way around as there were just so many people. The first stop was the Upsala Glacier which was once accessible by boat but due to the change in climate it is now receeding. For this reason a lot of ...

... early next day for the 45km ride to Puerto Bandera where we were catching our launch. This small port lies on Lake Argentina as does El Calafate. We boarded the catamaran and headed out across the lake. Once we were in open water we were able to leave ...

... picture, and to top it all off the water is milky blue from glacial melting, its a sight to behold   Next its the monster, Upsala Glacier, its 60km long, 7km wide, it rises to 60 metres high, its a beast, the boat goes right up to it, literally ...