El Calafate Campgrounds - Reviews and Rates

I missed you, Patagonia! You are even more beautiful in summer than in winter. There is so much here to fire the imagination - glaciers of staggering proportions, wide expanses of steppe with not so much as a building or animal in sight, grandiose rock formations like Torres del Paine, beautiful silvery lakes... not to mention the unbeatable Pat...

Na een vrij gesmeerde vlucht (maar een half uur vertraging!!) zijn we eergisteren aangekomen in El Calafate, Patagonie. Een nietszeggend dorpje dat leeft van het tourisme. Jaa, sssstampendvol van de touristen. Want iedereen wil hier maar één ding zien en dan zo snel mogelijk weer weg: naar Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. Je moet een uurtje de bus...

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 and watched a couple of large calvings about halfway back on the north side. It was overcast and breezy ...

We weren't sure if we'd be able to make it all the way to El Calafate from Trelew without having to break the journey in Rio Gallegos, but as it turned out really well. We arrived and managed to book another through bus leaving within the hour. We had just enough time for a bite to eat before hauling ourselves and our bags onto the coach. This t...

Back to El Calafate for chilling and Glacier Upsala

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 imaginable but few things can match the awe produced as chunks of ice bigger than a house fall off...