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El Calafate Slideshow
El Calafate
Travel Blogs from El Calafate, Argentina
Crossing borders to El Calafate
We left Puerto Natales at 7am for a four hour bus ride to El Calafate, Argentina. It was snowing on our way to the bus station. The bus ride was beautiful. It snowed that night so the landscape was covered in snow. We drove up some mountains and arrived ...
El Calafate
Ohne grosse Ausruhpause (man ist ja jung!) ging es einen Tag nach der Rueckkehr aus dem Park weiter nach El Calafate, Argentinien um sich gleich den naechsten Gletscher anzuschauen - dismal allerdings ganz entspannt mit Bus und Boot. Gletscher Perito ...
Perito Moreno Glacier - Awesome!
We spent a couple of day in El Calafate while Jim caught up on work. We decided not to endure the 4 hour trip to the Fitz Roy glacier as we heard it was snowing and intuited that we wouldn't see much of the mountain peaks. Our intuition was confirmed a ...
Is this the moon?
I couldn't see any sign of life here apart from the tiny airport, kind of looked like we were landing on the moon... Just a quick touchdown here before carrying on to ...
El Calafate - Glaciers
... to take the pathway to the glacier. We were given the option to do it the following day but unfortunately we were returning to El Calafate so we could not avail of the opportunity. Instead we trekked for another three hours back down to the town, where ...
Probably the best glacier in the world
... gallegos at 6pm after the usual border shenanigans. Not wanting to spend another night there, I was fortunately able to buy a ticket to El Calafate that night, and finally arrived there at 1am. I met a few nice people on the bus again, but when i arrived ...
A hard day on dirt and stony roads
... in the ditch. It was pure and simply hell on two wheels. After miles and miles of tarred road with gales we finally arrived at Calafate where we fueled up. Most of the riders had already left Calafate by the time I arrived as I stayed back and helped in a ...
Visiting Patagonia
... up in the warm lakes. Otherwise they would have some serious doubts about returning here. The lure of El Calafate is it close proximity to four massive glaciers. One glacier can be reached by car and the other three are sailed to ...
Holy Mother of glaciers
... and some cinnamon and heated our wine (shamefully)... it was just as horrible, but kept us warm. The highlight of El Calafate itself was Laguna Nimez a wetland sanctuary with bird watching. I don't consider myself a bird watcher, the activity ...
El Calafate
In El Calafate we had 2 atractions: One - It was the time to pay and be a real tourist... We decided to walk on the glacier - Porito Moreno. We took a bus to the glacier, went to the balconies there and waited like a hour and a half for the ...
Ice ice baby
... get in. Still we managed to get our ticket through to El Calafate pretty quickly so didn´t have to hang around too long. El Calafate is a bit of a ramshackle town living off trips to the Perito Moreno Glacier about 60 miles away. The glacier is part ...
The end of the year almost!
... hours on a bus....! well three buses really!! what a journey..and all to see a glacier....The glacier was just amazing....El calafate was a strange place..not somewhere to spend too much time...unfortunately i was there for 6 days!!! Basically i couldnt ...
Boat ride in Glacier National Park
All-day boat ride to see more glaciers and lots and lots of ...
Aquecimento para Buenos Aires
Estou em calafate apenas para dormir e amanha vou pra Buenos aires, meu quarto tem alguns franceses, bem gente boas, saimos pra jantar e conversamos bastante, e todo europeu que eu converso so que ir pra florianopolis, ninguem quer saber do rio de ...
Caporal Leave No Trace
Dimanche 1er mai, jour du Seigneur, deux Canadiens en sol calafatin partent à la recherche des merveilles locales. Glaciers El Calafate est situé aux abords du Parque nacional de los glaciares, un parc abritant d'immenses glaciers. Certains ...
El Calafate
... dus alles ging vlot. Goed vliegtuig met een heel mooi uitzicht op de Andespieken, heel mooi. Het zuidelijke stadje El Calafate is één van de bekendste uitvalsbasissen om het Argentijnse deel van Patagonië te verkennen. Het landschap is heel ruig met ...
Cada perico a su estaca, cada changa a su mecate
Or The One Where Our Mums Probably Shouldn't Look At The Photos El Calafate is a funny, funny place. I couldn't tell you the socio-economic status of the folks here: one minute you're wandering down a dusty, rocky dirt road lined with besser block homes, ...
Ruta 40 - Roads, Glaciers, Mountains & "Rainbow"
... way we opted for, in perhaps two of the most scenic places so far on our trip. El Chalten (and the Fitz Roy range) and El Calafate (and the Perito Moreno glacier). After day two on the bus & 1300 kms of nothing we finally reached El Chalten, which ...
Who turned down the heat?
I'm not going to lie, we cheated a bit and got a flight down to Patagonia as it was pretty cheap and cut out a seriously long bus journey. Not that it was without incident, turns out you're only aloud to take 15kg of luggage on internal flights which ...
The White Giant Moreno
... to return to Argentina and set off across the dusty antiplano passing the most gorgeous turquoise waters of Lake Argentina to the small town of El Calafate. This is a little tourist stop with many souvenior shops on the main street selling chocolate ...
Mi Horsio No Speakio Ingles!
... the day other than enjoying the amazing views of the desolate and wild patagonian tundra and lake Argentino (the biggest lake in Argentina) from the hostel. There`s something lovely about being warm and safe inside and able to watch the savage, icy winds ...
Very impressive Glacier....
... viewing. The hostel was sweet which was a welcome relief so we checked and treated oursleves to a nice breakfast/dinner in a local cafe. El Calafate was really nice, similar to Pucon in a lot of respects but was literally in the middle of nowhere. Here we ...
Walking on ice
On March 19th, I was able to get off the island in Tierra del Fuego and make my way to the main land of Argentina. We were a little nervous at the airport when they asked for my passport and I handed the guy a photocopy and a police report. He said ...
Day 131: December 23, 2007 El Calafate
Day 131: December 23, 2007 El Calafate This was our last day that we could take readings along the road into the glacier. We started by driving to the parking area and taking a reading along the shore. Then we went up to the glacier balconies ...
Off to the Glaciers in Patagonia's deep south
We took off from Bariloche's small airport to an even smaller (if not newer) airport in El Calafate. During the two hour flight, you really got a sense of the huge barren pampas that dominate most of southern Patagonia (the lakes region we just ...
Patagonie Argentine, El calafate et Perito Moreno
... doivent encore se lever a 4h du mat.... Mais la destination magique qui nous attend apporte un regain certain d energie.... Arrivee a El Calafate ou un guide interprete nous attend.... (ce sera presque toujours le cas avec les parents pour qui ca ...
The zen of glaciers
Next, to number 2 of the top 3 stops in western Patagonia, El Calafate, to see the Perito Moreno glacier up close and personal. The ride was on pavement and uneventful, until my radiator started putting out s bunch of steam. I had a ...
Perito Moreno Glacier
Today was a full day tour of the Perito Moreno Glacier. Our guide was a Cee Cee (Elizabeth) along with Juan our driver. Even though we have seen many glaciers on this trip to date (along with a trillion penguins) we were honestly gob-smacked when ...