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El Calafate Slideshow
El Calafate
Travel Blogs from El Calafate, Argentina
The Big Ice Cube...
... we finally got to El Calafate we would have just that, as it was the nearest town to The Perito Moreno glacier. El Calafate is a pretty humdrum, boring town, the only reason anyone would come here is to set up camp ready for an excursion to ...
El Calafate, Argentina
... Following Ushuaia and the 10-hour bus journey back to the traveller's origin of Rio Gallegos, the duo aboarded the starship 'El Calafate' with a proposed, supposed and estimated flight time of 3.5 light years. "Splendid!" thought the brace. The scheduled ...
Argentinean iceberg dodging
... fist full of peso's over. We were going to head down "Ruta (Route) 40", the only road in this part of remote, wild Argentina and a route well known on the adventure tourism circuit. We weren't leaving Los Antigous until 4pm so we headed to what was one of ...
Perito Moreno Glacier
Finally made it to see the Perito Moreno glacier, famous for its accessibility and continuous activity, something like 10 stories tall and 1km wide with great catwalks that get you within about 100m of the face as well as a 1-hour boat ride about 800m ...
Glory to the Glaciers
... in Buenos Aires to bloody cold in Patagonia. We are now routinely wearing our attrative thermal underwear, Mmmmm. We arrived at El Calafate and went directly to our hostel which was most wonderfully heated by underfloor heating (Louise: my idea of ...
Brian´s Birthday Bash
... , 43 hours, which included a stop in Rio Gallegos,the furthest south any of us has ever been, we FINALLY arrived into El Calafate. Steve and Pa were absolutely exhausted after the trip however Brian didnt feel the journey at all thanks to the best ...
Day 129: December 21, 2007 El Calafate
Day 129: December 21, 2007 El Calafate After eating breakfast at a café in town, we went to the National Park office. Silvina wasn't there but a guy named Mario was. He gave us the familiar song and dance and said to come back later while he checked ...
Moreno Glacier
A quick stop in El Calafate, just a few hours south of El Chalten. Famous for Moreno glacier, 50 meter ice walls ending at a glacier lake, impressive, but bad weather and had to take a ...
Die kleinen Unterschiede und brechendes Eis
... del Paines hiess es nach zirka sechs Wochen abschiednehmen von Chile. Die Reise ging über einen kleinen Pass weiter nach El Calafate in Argentinien. Haben wir uns doch schon ziemlich an Chile gewöhnt, ist nun plötzlich wieder einiges anders. Es fing ...
El Calafate- Chill day
... They are playing music which sounds like the Spanish version of Portishead. I guess if I have to pass on any advice to someone visiting El Calafate, it would be that only 1 full day is needed. Once you have seen the glacier, there isn't much else to ...
The long road, not often taken (part 1)
... game of cards (watch the steep corners, 500 rummy is hard to play when the deck keeps flying across the bus). We got to El Calafate (oh yeah, but now we are all pronunciating it properly... El Cala-fet-eh) with enough time to check into the hostel, ...
Hot chocolate, crampons and one bloody big glacier
... massive chunk of glacier crashed into the water. I think it is quite rare to see a piece that big fall off. We think it must have been the size of a couple of houses! Then it was back to El Calafate for some truly amazing hot orange chocolate. ...
Patagonia - Santa Cruz
... in El Calafate yesterday after taking 2 flights from Córdoba. The alternative (2 or 3 days on a bus didn´t seem very appealing). El Calafate is in Southern Patagonia, almost 3000 km from Córdoba and Buenos Aires. The town itself is nothing special but ...
Patagonia, Part II
... oncoming traffic. I offered to drive. I soon realized that neither street lights nor street signs had yet become commonplace in El Calafate, and it took me the next several hours to go the 1/2 kilometer from the rental car agency back to the ...
A really big glacier
Today we took a trip out to the Perito Moreno Glacier. About 80km from El Calafate, it is a pretty spectacular sight, if a bit touristy. After having seen the sheer size of it, as well as listening to it constantly calve I can see why so many people come ...
Where the streets have no streets - Caleta Tortel
After the Cerro Castillo park, we made our way (via bus this time) to the little town of Puerto Rio Tranquilo. It was muy tranquilo alright. This town reminded both Michelle and I of the town in Northern Exposure. It had about 4 streets and a little ...
Parque Nacional Los Glaciars. Ice trekking..
... euro each. Only took 1 hour and a half and was comfy with free drinks on board. The land along the patagonian steppe surrounding El Calafate is very flat and tends to be a great channel for 70 km winds to find their legs. The town itself has ...
il perito moreno
michia che viaggio... 24 ore di pullman! non ne potevo piu'... in piu bombardato di aspirina per cercare di far passare un raffreddore di di dimensioni plutoniche...il raffreddore non passa quindi ci si abitua... si cerca l'ostello eil propietario, un ...
Gigantic Glaciers!
After a few days of lovely sunshine we arrived (by plane) at the freezing town of El Calafate in Southern Patagonia. Just think Canadian TV show Northern Exposure and this is it without the moose! From here we took a tour to the Moreno glacier, 60ft tall ...
El Calafate
El Calafate is the stop off point for trips to Perito Moreno Glacier and because of that a little on the pricey side so out came the dreaded tent. This time we were awoken in the night not by the constant rustling of each other but by the entire earth ...
Patagonia!
I arrive at the small airport of El Calafate. The bus to town is not there and nobody really knows whether it will show up. I share a taxi with a trekker, Tim, and his guide. He is spending a few months on a semi-random journey of treks. He found a guide ...
Awesome Glacier
1/25 El Calafate, Argentina Miles travelled: 43816 After a scenic drive around Lago Argentino, the third largest lake in South America, we arrived at the "other" resort town for Los Glaciares National Park, El Calafate. It is comparatively more ...
Patagonia!
... all the ice falling off. I was in total awe the whole time. So now we have arrived in Punta Arenas, about 9 hours south of El Calafate. We really feel now like we are at the ends of the earth! Tomorrow should be another incredible day, but you'll have ...
el calafate
This is a top pick! ... of thanks as the wheels touched down on the barren land . An unassuming town with the now familiar souviner shops for a high street, El Calafate serves as an entrance for the Parque Nacional Los Glaciers, which as the name implies, is a park full of ...
Glacier Perito Moreno, a wonder of this world...
... time, so surely I couldn't miss the opportunity to meet up with her! A little part of home in South America! Direction El Calafate pour visiter l'attraction number 1 de la Patagonie argentine: Le glacier Perito Moreno (5000m de front et 60m de hauteur) ...
El Calafate
You go to El Calafate for one reason. To see the famous Perito Moreno glacier. However El Calafate is a nice small town to hang around for a couple of days and soak the atmosphere of ...
Glacier hiking on Perito Moreno (near El Calafate)
... Calafate was horribly slow. So we are going to try to catchup on a few entries in a row. We had a great time in El Calafate, quite a tourist trap though, as the city pretty much sprung up as a tourist destination to launch trips to one of the ...
El Calafate - Argentina
After a long bus journey across Patagonia and two border controls, we arrived in El Calafate which is on the edge of Lago Argentino that is very beautiful and very blue. We were there to go to the Perito Merino Glacier which was an unforgettable ...