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El Calafate Slideshow
Travel Blogs from El Calafate, Argentina
Parking the bikes in El Calafate.
This is a top pick! ... . Starky of course couldn't do this as his Spanish-speaking skills would be needed to explain to the driver the urgent need for a lift to El Calafate with the bikes. Apparently, in a team, each member has a role to which he is best suited. But we digress, ...
Glaciar Moreno
This is a top pick! ... economy in tatters. I later suspect that the number of foreign visitors has not been affected by the country´s economic problems and El Calafate has received a huge cash injection from the tourists that come to visit. Over the next days we set up ...
El Calafate - Land of glaciers......and flamencos
This is a top pick! Photos for now, a few words to ...
Big Ice!!
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 257 Temperature : 14 degrees Weather : Cloudy morning, sunny afternoon Wow! Wow! Wow! It's like a living, breathing monster which continually groans and creaks. Then, every so often, there are the most incredible loud, hollow, ...
One big glacier & more stunning views....22-26 Nov
This is a top pick! ... 5 highlights of South America, maybe even Top 2.. Friday 26th November Today we spend the day at El Chalten, a 3 hour bus ride from El Calafate. Daniel comes with us, but he is going to spend a couple of days here trekking so we say our goodbyes. ...
On the rocks, with ice.
This is a top pick! ... a perspective on the size 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 ...
El Calafate
This is a top pick! ... , oh and freezing our arses off - this is a giant lump of ice after all! It was a small relief to get back to El Calafate to the relative warmth and a steaming bowl of soup!. Heading to El Chalten, mountain climbers heaven, next to see if we can catch ...
Two countries in one Birthday
This is a top pick! Get on bus for El Calafate in Argentina which should take about 5 hours to get to. We head off on a virtually empty coach and enjoy the views as we cross over to the border which is a very quick process. I am bemused by the sign at the Argentinian ...
Amazing Glacier
This is a top pick! Have a lie in today and Tony goes out to sort a hire car as its cheaper than the tours to the glacier plus means we can leave later. Weather still great and we head off after stocking up for a picnic. Drive is just over an hour away along the lake and ...
Trekking in Torres del Paine
This is a top pick! Wake up to howling wind and driving rain outside and I am pretty sure I am not going to go trekking! Still not 100% better and would rather not be frozen and wet for a few days. Still decide to get the bus into the park as have already bought the ...
It's a dogs life.....
This is a top pick! ... and us coming from El Chalten back here (add another 4 hours) it is only costing about £30 more to fly there in 3 hours from El Calafate. It feels like cheating a bit but we are trying to fit so much into our last few months when the option to fly is ...
Mission aborted (but the thought was there)
This is a top pick! ... a good day to be walking, plus you couldn’t actually see any of the mountains anyway. We managed to change our bus back to El Calafate to an earlier one. El Chalten despite being nice with great walks doesn’t have too much to offer on a ...
Patagonia & Perito Moreno - Beware falling ice
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Funny looking hill.
This is a top pick! 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 a ...
The Glaciers
This is a top pick! ... get to the Park is El Calafate and it was only 20 miles off route (we did try to get a lift from our route north to El Calafate, but sadly there was nothing doing). If you're only going to see one glacier then it has to be Glacier Perito Moreno, a ...
blowing hot and cold
This is a top pick! ... 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, the ...
Our last trek (we think)
This is a top pick! ... were in trouble there would have been no one to help them. Maybe I’m a bit over cautious?? After this we drove back to El Calafate and as it was our last time in the car we decided on the gravel road route as we hadn’t had as much as ...
Perito Moreno Glacier, El Calafate
This is a top pick! ... I am horribly behind and 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 ...
Gawping at Glaciers
This is a top pick! ... soon arrived to collect us. After about one hour we arrived at a small port on the edge of Lake Argo, the largest body of water in Argentina at 1600 sq km, where we were to board our boat. I thought I had pulled a great fast one as the park entry fee ...
The most expensive shit of the trip
This is a top pick! We had a lie in today well at least we had a lie in until 7am which was nice, we had breakfast (today I tried the cheerios instead of cornflakes), still living the gastronomic dream), we got on the bus at 8am and drove for about 1.5 hours picking up ...
Encounters with Sheep and 15 Stories of Ice
This is a top pick! ... 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 hour ...
The Perito Moreno Glacier
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Nearly the End of the World
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Lakes and Glaciers in Argentina
This is a top pick! ... there in the evening. From Bariloche we then took a 33hr bus ride (yes thirty three hours!!) via Rio Gallegos to El Calafate - a long bleak journey with little scenery but the only alternative to an expensive flight south. In El Calafate we found a ...
Mount Fitz Roy and Ice trecking
This is a top pick! I{ll update my entry properly when I get a faster internet connection. From Calafate I took the bus to Chalten, the gateway to the northern part of the Parque National Los Glacieres. I spent a few days hiking around the various trails, including a ...
Argentina + Chile Picture Special
This is a top pick! Since having our digital camera stolen, coopertrooper blog fans have been denied photographic pleasures of Chile and Argentina. We have been using the nasty disposable cameras for the past four weeks and this blog is dedicated to the the two cameras ...
El Chalten and El Calafate
This is a top pick! ... trek back into town a lot more pleasant. The King of 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, ...
Blues Craoyla hasn't even Invented...
This is a top pick! ... score 2 goals against Chile, we fought with some really rude French ladies for the kitchen, and got ready for our 5:30 AM bus back to El Calafate... Enjoy... a picture is worth a thousand words... and sometimes the experience takes your breath ...
