El Galpon del Glaciar
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Iceberg straight ahead!!
... bed. The couple near me had their alarms going off like every hour but never got up for anything. I almost jumped down and smothered each of them as they attempted to whisper in german or whatever. Up at not too bad of a time, departure for 0800 so really reasonable. Yet another plus to Argentina, no stupid 0430 am morning calls. Thought that I was going glacier trekking today, but read the fine print last night and if wanted to do that had to inform the company ...
All this ice and no G&T!!!
... within are so clear, so pure and so deep that one cannot help but stare
at them in amazement. My one regret is that I wasn't sure ...
So here we are in the land of Argentinian glaciers
... kms away from Gaiman about to board the same ferry across to Punta Arenas! These trips so often highlight just how small the world is.
So whilst we awaited the ferry we chatted to Pat who told he was aiming to get to Alaska in 4 months – a bit quicker than us – and that whilst he was Welsh he now lived in Barcelona and having lived in Spain for some 18 years spoke pretty good Spanish unlike us. He had sent his bike out from Europe to Buenos Aires by air but somehow ...
Face to face to world's beautiful creations
... the ice glaciers is priceless!
My first glacier walk was initially scary. Looking high up on the glacier, I had serious doubts that I could climb up and down without breaking into a fall in those spikes. 'When coming down, bend your knees and look forward', even though those words keep repeating, my mind was overwhelmed at how high the slope was and how narrow the walking path was and if there is ...
Perito Moreno
... It happened just a few weeks ago and we have to wait for a couple years for the next show.
I got my Exercise ,got my ticker up to 180 ,running up the 422 steps from the Walkway to the Lodge.
Perito Moreno is one of vey few Glacier in the World which is advancing due to the fact that the snow accumulating Aera on the Top is about 10 times the size of the melting aera on th bottom .
The Accumulating Area is about the size of the Alps ...