Cabanas Balcones de los Andes El Calafate
Maximo E. Villalba 457 El Calafate, Province of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina
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El Calafate is a pleasant town with one big attraction near-by, the perito moreno glacier. Which is essentially one big glacier which chunks fall off all of the time whith spectacular effect (it´s the one Brian Cox visited to explain entropy in ´The wonders of the universe´). We got a bus in the afternoon which would take us there and back leaving us ...
Blown away by Patagonia (literally!)
... is a constant howling gale in Patagonia, which means you are always covered in a layer of sand and dust - I´m not sure which is preferable - this, or the sweat and sun cream!
El Calafate is pretty small and has the feel of a real wild west frontier town - it literally looks as if it has dropped out of the sky into the middle of nowhere. But it has the advantage of being the gateway town for Southern part of the ...
Le joyau de la Patagonie
... Il fait partie des seuls 3 glaciers de Patagonie à ne pas régresser, il avance même de 2 mètres par jour! Il est tellement imposant et majestueux que toutes nos photos ne pourront transcrire ses 60 mètres de hauteur et 5 km de largeur.
Bien que le beau temps ne soit pas au rendez-vous, nous avons été époustouflé et on ne se lasse pas de l'admirer sous tous les angles, en attendant ...
El Calafate (And Perito Merino Glacier)
... ourselves into a mini-ice trekking tour, which included the normal boat trip to the glacier and the views from the balconies over-looking the glacier. But added to that is a mini-trek over the glacier. And let me tell you what fun it was, a novelty really (not strenous excercise or anything – dunno why they call it trekking).
So you get picked up at your hostel and bused off to the glacier, and the 1st sight of it is – WOW!! It is 60m tall ...
Nature Rules............OK
... time, and we were promised an escort of Dolphins
that never materialised. Once in Punta
Arenas we stopped for 3 nights as it’s a smart town with a duty free zone. T’was
here that our famous give it a go spirit was tested as we ordered in a local
restaurant a dish called curasco, we were told it was a sort of seafood medley.
We must work ********* our Spanish as curasco ...


