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El Calafate Slideshow
El Calafate
Travel Blogs from El Calafate, Argentina
adjusting yet again
... be inclined to ask how it is possible for a bloke like me (or any bloke) to spend two years in the meat-infested nation of Argentina without ever once cooking up an asado. Well, the answer to that question is that i don't have an answer to that question. ...
El "Cafe latte" and Moreno Glacier
Taking another 5 hour bus from Puerto Natales (yes, another bus - does it ever end?!), we arrived in El Calafate (or as Cat called it, El Cafe Latte). This is where we based ourselves for 2 nights to visit the famous Perito Moreno Glacier. The town ...
Welcome to Patagonia
... you of just how small and insignificant we, as individuals, are when it comes down to the forces of nature. Finally, before we left El Calafate we found an excellent Parilla called "Ricks". They stated "eat as much meat as you want for 45 pesos" (about 7 ...
Giant Glaciers and Patagonian Plains
... was available. Shaken and stirred after the night before, we swiftly packed up and moved on further into Patagonia, to El Calafate. Another quite touristy town, El Calafate´s main street reveals a plethora of pricey outdoor adventure stores and yet ...
El Calafate
... there is really nothing to see between the two town but nothingness. No hills, no trees just flat plains of nothing. El Calafate is tourist town positioned near Perito Merino Glacier and some excellent hiking. Unfortunately we didn´t have time to fit ...
Cool Calafate
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Day 2 - Campamento Poincenot and Cerro Fitzroy
Day 2 - Next morning got up for the sunrise. Cerro Torre was covered in cloud, but there was some fantastic lighting and lovely reflection off the water. There were some nice yellow topa topa (wood ladies slippers) around camp. The ...
An amazing glacier
Perito Moreno the Perito Moreno glacier is the main justification for super-touristy El Calafate, a strange town of tour agencies, outdoor gear shops and restaurants. It has a casino too. Our first night (excluding the dossing down in the bus ...
Perito Moreno Glaciar
We arrived by plane to El Calafate the evening of the 31st and provided a source of entertainment for numerous restaurant staff as we went round asking for a table for two with no reservation. Just as we were about to resign ourselves to takeaway pizza ...
Israeli Invasion
... his email address and told him to come to Isreal and he would hook him up with an Israel. So here we are, in El Calafate. Today consisted of drinkin coffee, eating lunch (the best hamburger ever made; burger, cheese, fried egg, letttuce, tomatoe, ...
Perito moreno
... de papel y plantaron varios arboles en un parque, quizas algun dia vuelvan a verlos y recuerden este viaje y a sus padres..... El 15 fue mi cumple y lo celebramos con un...... asado argentino buenisimo. Desde aqui, te tientan excursiones a chile y ...
Do the Glacier walk
Arriving in El Calafate was a nice change of atmosphere. First of all, we are back in Argentina! Cheap food and a currency that makes sense! El Calafate is a real touristy little town, its also for Argentinian tourists, not just international tourists ...
Perito Moreno and El Calafate
... country of Austrolombia rocked the evening to the very core, earning the cup (read - empty beer bottle) and defeating the El Calafate reigning champions in a nail biting match despite some odd (perhaps even made up - it got heated but Austrolombia wasn't ...
El famós Glaciar Perito Moreno
Aquí teniu un dels exponents més mediàtics del calentament global...per cert, el pon que es pot apreciar que es suporta a la roca ha caigut aquest hivern Argentí, per lo qual haureu pogut veure'l molt per ...
Into Patagonia and a very big block of ice
Our next stop was a town called El Calafate in Southern Argentina in the Patagonian region of South America. We managed to book a flight from Buenos Aires and avoid ourselves another couple of days worth of bus journeys. This was definitely the right ...
Puerto Moreno Glacier, the 'alternative' tour.
... a big smile on my face. We went into town to get some benzina blanca (white gas) for our stove, the service in Argentina is terrible and we probably spend 20 minutes just waiting for some service. Next we went to a great little bar called Casablanca. ...
Trekking Fitz Roy
We arrived in Patagonia to aerial views of the Fitz Roy area and came into land at the small but modern airport in El Calafate. this was the trekking plane as on the baggage carousel there were only rucksacks. Everyone was bundled into ...
I almost blew across Patagonia....
... got a few good shots, but it was entertaining to try to walk in that wind! We also had a fantastic dinner in a restaurant overlooking El Calafate. For $12.50USD we had empanada appetizers, salads, fries and a HUGE sizzling platter of meats (chicken, lamb, ...
BIG ICE
Now we are back in Argentina but still in Patagonia and we elected for the harder hiking day ……the BIG ICE hike on the Perito Moreno glacier. Today energy levels were not quite the usual high after the last few days but the idea of hiking on ...
Perito Moreno Glacier
... in Antarctica, I have to admit we weren't expecting to be overly impressed by our visit to the famous Perito Moreno glacier near El Calafate but can I say straight up... WOW. A really big WOW cause this thing is something else to behold. I've said before ...
Sole y Tuoni!
... mamma pure, quindi: rimango io!! che amo guidare) e potremo fermarci nei paesini sperduti! Aneddoto locale: ci sono dei cani a El Calafate, randagi, che di sera s'incontrano in centro (non so cosa facciano di giorno), si bevono tra loro un aperitivo, ...
Peuguins and to the Mountains!
... but it was awesome. Played pool with a local couple and was turned onto an awesome Argentinean reggae band Los Cafres. Made my way to El Calafate today. Further south it is colder and the days are longer, it is 8:40pm and the sun is about to set. This ...
El Calafate - it's all about the glaciers
The start of our 3 days in El Calafate wasn't very promising, our bags didn't make the flight and we didn't know when we would see them again. Fortunately the staff at the hotel, Cauquenez de Nimez, were so amazing that they lent us extra jackets, scarfs ...
Grilling your ass like a pound of bacon.
... it didn't disappoint! Ice was everywhere! Simon: Finally it seemed, as we sped along the banks of the massive Lago Argentina, its mineral-enriched petrol blue waters shimmering in the snow-enhanced sunlight, that we were to at last be treated to some ...
Emma and Damon do Argentina
El Calafate is a very small town in the Argentine Patagonia, not far at all (5 hours by bus through unsealed roads) from Puerto Natales in Chile. I had planned with Damon to surprise Emma by turning up at the airport when they landed, rather than meeting ...
EL CALAFATE
... early next day for the 45km ride to Puerto Bandera where we were catching our launch. This small port lies on Lake Argentina as does El Calafate. We boarded the catamaran and headed out across the lake. Once we were in open water we were able to leave ...
Day 182: February 13, 2008 El Calafate
Day 182: February 13, 2008 El Calafate I'm glad things worked out that I could celebrate my 55th birthday in El Calafate with Liz. Unfortunately, the day was overcast and raining. We ate a great, filling breakfast and then hopped in the truck and drove ...
Ice Ice Baby!
We flew from Buenos Aires to El Calafate, a 3 hour flight. Definitely beats busing it (would have been about 45 hours!). The second you get off the plane you know you're somewhere very different and unique: cold fresh air, spectacular mountains and a ...
le glacier perito moreno***
... faudrait que je sorte au cyber du coin.. a voir car ca pele ici la nuit.. Donc tous les gens viennent a Calafate simplement car l acces au parc national de los glaciares se fait facilement, ce qui est vrai.. Mais, franchement, si la ville en ...
More glaciers to see
Rented a car with some fellow travelers and saw the glacier and surrounding ...