El Calafate, Argentina Travel Blogs

Cool Calafate
Mar 11, 1992 (19 photos)

We stopped at Calafate to view the Perito Moreno glacier, which is absolutely stunning.  We witnessed falling ice (made global warming a bit more realistic), blocks of several sizes, and heard the huge crushes they made falling in the lake. This was ...

Parking the bikes in El Calafate.
Mar 26, 2005 (7 photos)

... 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, the ...

Glaciar Moreno
Feb 22, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 our ...

On the rocks, with ice.
Apr 19, 2005 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

Two countries in one Birthday
Nov 2, 2006 (1 photos)

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 border ...

Amazing Glacier
Nov 4, 2006 (6 photos)

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 ...

El Calafate
Feb 6, 2007 (16 photos)

... , 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 a ...

blowing hot and cold
Jan 13, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

The Glaciers
Mar 29, 2005 (12 photos)

... 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 glacier ...

Nearly the End of the World
Jan 23, 2005 (16 photos)

... 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 ...

Encounters with Sheep and 15 Stories of Ice
Sep 6, 2007 (28 photos)

... 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 ...

Perito Moreno Glacier, El Calafate
Nov 27, 2006 (14 photos)

... 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 few ...

The Perito Moreno Glacier
Nov 20, 2008 (9 photos)

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 ...

El Calafate
Mar 4, 2008 (31 photos)

El Calafate

Lakes and Glaciers in Argentina
Apr 4, 2005 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

El Chalten and El Calafate
Dec 11, 2006 (21 photos)

... 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, directly ...

Blues Craoyla hasn't even Invented...
Oct 20, 2007 (81 photos)

... 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 away!

Perito Moreno Glacier
Dec 15, 2006 (7 photos)

... 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 Caraibian, ...

Patagonian Pampa and Peaks
Apr 1, 2005 (19 photos)

... Roy Range gradually recede in our rear view mirrors. Even from a hundred km across the pampa it was a stunning sight. Eventually it was left far behind on the horizon as we headed further south to El Calafate, gateway to the famous Perito Moreno Glacier.

Above Patagonia
Feb 15, 2008 (14 photos)

Flying above Patagonia!

Perito Moreno
Oct 15, 2006

Today´s excursion has made touring this part of the world unbelievable to say the least... Moreno Glacier rates up there as being one of the greatest natural sights I´ve had the pleasure to tour this year. If you come down to this part of the world, you ...

Dont Mention The War!
Mar 22, 2005 (9 photos)

March 22nd 2005 Caught the 7.30 bus to El Calafate, and quickly arrive at the border between Chile and Argentina, through immigration on the Chilean side, and then, the first thing you see on the Argentinian side is a large sign, with a map of the ...

Moreno Glaciar
Mar 11, 2005 (7 photos)

... a bottle it tasted like heaven and smelled like honey and of course the obligotory 600g stake...hmmm. I´m definitely going to miss Argentina. We also meet a film producer from LA called Felix who had us in stitches with his stories of passing gall stones. ...

Land of the Tango
Oct 15, 2006 (28 photos)

... Hostel in Munich all that time ago (she asked me what she should do when I reported the internet as not working). El Calafate isn´t the most attractive place I´ve been to but nevertheless has snow-capped mountains in the background. The drive through ...

Just like Titanic (sort of)
Oct 14, 2005 (9 photos)

Another big "wow, nature is amazing" from Argentina! I arrived in Calafate on Tuesday after a flight with the Argentinian Airforce passenger service (company motto: the Falklands belong to Argentina...!), it was a little propella plane and we stopped ...

Pretty big icecubes!
Apr 20, 2004 (10 photos)

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 Perito Moreno Glacier
Oct 6, 2004

The Perito Moreno glacier is 45 miles long, 5 miles wide and 180 m high. 60 m is visible above the surface of the lake. The glacier is still moving. It is truly an awe inspiring sight. From time to time you hear loud cracks comparable to lighting as one ...

The Perito Moreno Glacier
Feb 3, 2007 (13 photos)

... nbsp;and time have little meaning to me anymore.  But, before I deal with all that, we have some time to check out El Calafate.  We heard nice things about the town and the hostel where we reserved,  but the place turned out to be& ...

Park Life
Nov 27, 2006 (16 photos)

... (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 ...

Ice Capades
Apr 7, 2005 (20 photos)

... 't resist spending another two days in such a spectacular area. Besides, as it is so late in the season we had failed to find and eat some of the succulent blue Calafate berries, so legend has it that our chances of returning one day are pretty slim!!