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Crossing borders to El Calafate
We left Puerto Natales at 7am for a four hour bus ride to El Calafate, Argentina. It was snowing on our way to the bus station. The bus ride was beautiful. It snowed that night so the landscape was covered in snow. We drove up some mountains and arrived at the Chilean border crossing. We all got off the bus and had our passports stamped then …
The long and winding road
We arrived into Rio Gallegas at around 7.15 and bought our ticket to El Calafate straight away. Rio Gallegas didn't seem the best place to hang around, not dangerous but just looked like an industrial town with nothing of note. You can tell you're in the south here; very windy and pretty chilly. All of a sudden everybody is sporting North Face …
Ice ice baby!
Woah! Went to see the Perito Mereno glacier today. It is brilliant!
Naturally as we were going to see something made of ice we wrapped up warm. I had thermals, jumper, anorak etc...got there as it was blooming boiling!? I was sweltering with all my layers and could only strip so far! The bus took about an hour through some beautiful …
Patagonia Part 2 - Ice say, what a big Glacier!
On next part of the journey started with another 18 hour bus journey to Rio Gallegos - Argentina really is a huge country. We had a brilliant bus journey - it broke down half way and a child screamed its head off in the seat behind us for 9 continuous hours. More of the same scenery as well - mile after mile of nasty scrubland. Rio Gallegos marks a …
Enticing El Calafate
We headed on to the tourist town of El Calafate. The city promises to get it's visitors up close and personal with the Glacier National Park. We are excited to see the sites tomorrow. Today we ventured through the small town and caught up on life. Laundry, visiting with some Irish folk, and flying into town, all filled up our day. We're hoping the …
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“Perfect place”
Reviewed Feb 22, 2011
Everything is allright - professional hostal !
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