El Calafate Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

Well alter a 5.30am bus from Ushuaia and a 3 hour wait for a bus connection and finally half an hour before we reached our final destination a meal break for the bus driver we finally arrived in El Calafate at *********** mid-night. Due to this being high season plus ´Tourist Town´ we had to leave the comfort of our private rooms and opt for a d...

Ok - so finally got round to writing our blog. Have neglected it badly - but today's 7 hour bus ride should allow me to make amends.... We arrived in Calafate at around 1pm. Calafate is marketed by many as the number 1 tourist destination in Argentina (after Buenos Aires) and is therefore en everyone's list of places to visit (from your humblest...

El Calafate and Moreno Glacier - Thankfully it was then a short trip to the town of El Calafate. The town is here because of the attraction of the nearby Moreno Glacier. It is one of the few advancing glaciers in the world. I spent a day here getting close to the glacier from the land viewpoints and from the boat that goes near. The glacier is 1...

On March 19th, I was able to get off the island in Tierra del Fuego and make my way to the main land of Argentina. We were a little nervous at the airport when they asked for my passport and I handed the guy a photocopy and a police report. He said something to me in Spanish that I didn´t understand so I just smiled and nodded when he gave the s...

The last few days we´ve spent in El Calafate and the stunning Los Glaciers National Park - basically a huge national park full of glaciers as big as mountain ranges. Our journey to calafate was an interesting one. Without a golden bus ticket (we needed to wait until the next day) we decided to try our luck hitchiking from gallegos to calafate, s...