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El Calafate Slideshow
El Calafate
Travel Blogs from El Calafate, Argentina
Glacier Perito Moreno! WOW!!!
Ok- the coolest wonder of Mother Nature I have ever experienced in my life! This Glacier is AMAZING! Magnificent- actually put me into tears! I ended up renting a car with some people I met on the bus and was the only person who knew how to drive ...
Happy Birthday to me
Wednesday and Thursday I spent circuiting the two most famous peaks in the park, namely Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre. Got some fantastic shots of both. Then I headed down. On the way down, I met a cool kid from Buenos Aires and an annoying American man who ...
Ice CHunks thesize of my house!
El Calafate itself didn't really interest me (another tourist ridden town with the same knickknacks sold on every corner), however its super famous Perito Moreno Glacier 2 hours away did. Not only does this massive glacier sport every shade of blue ...
Genieten met Maten!
... vroeg naar de bussen te gaan die ons ieder weer een andere kant op zullen brengen....sniksnik , boehoe..... Hello again! Back in El Calafate we took a taxi to the Cabañas Blanca Patagonia we had organised before we set off to Torres del Paine. We ...
A bad experience in a cool place
... smaller piece. I wish I had more time to take it all in, but it had been a long and full day. Day 3: Leaving El Calafate….naaaawt I woke up a little late, but still made it to the bus station with a few minutes to spare before the ...
brrr it´s cold down south
The border crossing caused more annoyance as the Chilean one had two mens toilets and only one womens!! and the Argentina side had a man inputting all the passport details with one finger and it took ages!!!!! Once there we got a taxi to the hostel ...
Perito Moreno Glacier
... sore about Maggie and the Falklands. We met some lads from London on the trek in Chile who tried to get into Argentina from Brazil. The Brazilian border police were flabbergasted when they saw them return after meeting an old Argentinian Border guard who ...
From foxes to Glaciers
... to find out doesn't give all the buses. I had wanted to go to Punta Arenas in Chile to Puerto Natales in Argentina before going on to El Calafate but couldn't find a bus route. When we arrived in El Calafate, I realised it would have been easy. Arrived ...
More Glaciers
Another long bus ride across plains of brown land, eventually dropping down to the town of El Calafate almost a oasis in the middle of the desert. We were hanging for this hostel with the heated floors we had heard so much about! it was good, a little too ...
The Purple Expert and Pink Flamingos
... entry). That's enough about the glacier. We went to El Chalten for three days (see El Chalten entry). Upon returning to El Calafate, we were greeted by beautiful sunshine and cloudless skies. We knew we needed to be outdoors, so we dropped our ...
Glacier Perito Moreno
Nous y voila. El calafate est une petite ville, base pour les excursions vers la partie sud du Parc National Los Glacieres et le Celebre glacier Perito Moreno. Pas aneanti par la journee sur le bord de la route a la sortie del Chalten, je m y remets ici ...
Argentina me encanta!
70 km fuori da El Calafate: Estancia Nibepo Haike! Siamo stati due giorni in Estancia nel parco nazionale dei ghiacciai (le Estancias sono delle specie di ranch). All'inizio c'eravamo solo noi e abbiamo passato una giornata in tranquillita' ...
szlak do Jeziora Trzech i podroz do El Calafate
... kierujemy do restauracji po ulubione empanadas. Odzyskujemy troche sil i ruszamy dalej w droge, tym razem do EL Calafate. Do przejechania mamy odcinek 500 km, na szczescie po asfalcie. W miasteczku jestesmy wieczorem, ...
Fortress of Solitude
... there is just some really cool shit! After a border crossing and a ride across the tundra we arrived in El Calafate, Argentina. A small town on another amazingly colored blue lake with a majestic mountain backdrop. Do we sound like broken records ...
Blown to bits
... not short of a drop or two anyway). This fact has caused considerable problems since the original agreement between Chile and Argentina was that their countries were bounded where 'the highest peaks divide the waters'. Sometimes the watershed is a long ...
The mountains await
Monday I went out to meet up with Sophie and Liz, who were attempting to hitch their way out of town. They made me hide behind the ranger booth every time a vehicle approached. (We all knew that a male presence could only deter any potential ...
El Calafate and Perito Moreno
... ,000 acres)and there isn´t a lot of vegetation so it takes a lot of land to support anything and sheep do better than cattle. El Calafate itself kind of turned me off. I don´t know how many people they move a day through the town and the galcier but ...
Into Patagonia: Volcanoes, Mountains, Glaciers
... cave paintings of hands over 9000 years old. The cave had been inhabited pretty much continuously for over 8000 years...mindblowing. *Arrived at El Calafate on New Year`s Eve, just in time to dress up for the celebrations. Lovely meal with Mick, Anki and ...
Freezing Cold Horse Ride!
29th November A day of leisure in El Calafate so we filled it with doing nothing. Nada. Ah yes, With exception to watching Chelsea of course. 30th November Another day of leisure as our flight was not until 8pm to Bariloche. Two days in a row of ...
El Calafate
El Calafate is alot bigger and in my opinion much nicer that El Chalten, although, El Chalten has only sprung up in the last 15 years so it´s only a baby of a town really. The hostel we stayed in was nice and clean with a good atmosphere and big dorms. ...
Perito Moreno Glacier
El Calfate very much reminded me of an upscale ski resort town, like in Colorado or somewhere in Switzerland. We had some great food (try the Patagonian lamb!), enjoyed a few drinks with our fellow travelers, and the highlight of course was the ...
Laguna Nimez, noisy engines and smelly toilets
... , they had no idea on my bag that American Airlines was meant to be giving them! 5 flights had come down from BA to El Calafate since my luggage should have arrived. It was not looking good. That evening we went to a parrilla in town that we'd ...
Gletjser Perito Moreno
We zijn gaan kijken naar de gletsjer Perito Moreno. We hebben gekozen voor een gewone bus naar het park en dan gewoon daar op de boardwalk te kijken naar de gletsjer. Je kunt er ook voor langs varen en zelfs overheen lopen. Varen gaan we al doen in Chili ...
Preparation
We take the day off. Wake up late, leisurely breakfast, then a bus returning to Calafate. Monique had been thinking that she had brought too much food. As we inventory, I see enough for about 2 days (out of 6!). Drew was supposed to ...
Ice Ice Baby
... and was not going to be fixed for a least a few days and so we had to come up with an alternative plan of action. With El Calafate offering very little in the way of attractions or things to do, we headed to a nature reserve on Lago Argentina. Now ...
El Calafate and the Perito Moreno Glacier
... at securing a room actually resulted in a reservation being made. Still, sorry to Hostal Thomas if they were expecting us! El Calafate is a very pretty tourist town, with a ski resort feel thanks to the many wooden chalets although priced accordingly. ...
El Calafate
... the Todo Glaciares trip (ARS 263,00 - USD 85,00 at ARS 3 per USD)... this trip showed us most of the glaciers in El Calafate... beatiful trip... cold as ... winter + wind all mixed together... but... worth the trouble... The other day I did the Mini ...
Petit Morena glacier aint so petit
What an amazing glacier! Arriving into El Calafate the day earlier, the town is like El Cheltan in that it has truly terrible town planning! The afternoon was spent visiting a flamingo colony on the edge of town. Gorgeous lake location ...