Alto Calafate El Calafate
Route Prov. 11 El Calafate, Province of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Z9405DBC, Argentina
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Patagonie Argentine, El calafate et Perito Moreno
Depart de Buenos Aires vers la patagonie aux aurores, un peu dur pour tout le monde le reveil, et surtout pour les parents qui, a peine remis de leur decalage horaire de l'avant-veille doivent encore se lever a 4h du mat.... Mais la destination magique qui nous attend apporte un regain certain d energie.... Arrivee a El Calafate ou un guide …
From the Deep South
My dearest fellow Americans: I am writing from El Calafate, in the southern part of South America. We left from Rosario the morning of Friday, Oct. 24, at 1 AM and took a bus to the Buenos Aires airport (about 5 hours). But our bus actually broke down about 1/3 of the way to Buenos Aires, and we had to take it back to the bus terminal and start …
Back to Argentina
Our private transfer was arranged for midday at the Chile/Argentina border according to our Chile Agent. Unfortunately the Argentinian guide was told 1.30 and she saw us drive off en route to El Calafate as she made her way to the border.
The wind at the border was amazing. Poor Edie stepped out and her precious Boca …
Perito Moreno Glacier
Today was a full day tour of the Perito Moreno Glacier. Our guide was a Cee Cee (Elizabeth) along with Juan our driver. Even though we have seen many glaciers on this trip to date (along with a trillion penguins) we were honestly gob-smacked when we came face-to-face with this 70 metre high rugged face. It was like watching a firework …
Boat Tour to Upsala
We left very early and sped across to Punta Bandera as we were on a full day boat tour of, um Glaciers. We were taken to the boat, a rather nice catamaran with five massive bags of picnic. We were in the VIP section which meant we did not have to fight with the riff raff (and I assure you they fought for those window seats – …



