Design Suites Calafate El Calafate

... dishes after steak. And Amy is right - their pasta and pizza suck almost across the board. No flavor at all! Donīt come to Argentina for the cuisine, thatīs for sure. Unless you plan on eating steak every day, then you are safe!

The main reason we came to Calafate was to see the Perito Moreno glacier. It is probably the most famous glacier in South America, if not the world. Itīs not the biggest, but it is the most easily accessible. And let me ...

... pelo lago nos leva perto do Glaciar Perito Moreno, 300m. Muito vento e frio mas valeu a pena porque o glaciar eh impressionante. Sao 40 a 60m de parede de gelo dentro de um vale de 4Km de largura. O gelo estah apoiado no fundo do lago com profundidades de 80 a 110m. De vez em quando ouvimos estrondos que sao pedacos do gelo se desprendendo e caindo no lago.

Gostei bastante mas o dia estava meio feio e cinzento. Voltamos ao onibus e andamos mais um pouco em direcao as passarelas ...

... for a view, the drive went quick. We had to pay our entrance fee and then we continued on the coach to a spot where we stopped to take pictures of the glacier from a distance. We then had an option to take a boat ride to view the glacier up close, this was an additional cost but defiantly worth doing. The boat sailed the 5 kilometer front of the glacier which was 60 meters above the water and was even more spectacular to view up close. We watched as great masses ...

... to forego this because of the expense, but it sounded awesome), South America, etc. The four of us split a cab from the airport in BA and we met at Plaza San Martin that night to check out the United Buddy Bears again and grab dinner together. We returned to BA to two large pieces of news. The first was the state funeral of Raul Alfonsin, the father of modern Argentina. Argentina suffered from a series of repressive ...

... the lake. We spent hours watching this process repeating itself, mesmorised and trying to catch some of the falling junks on camera. This proved to be very difficult and a lot of luck is required as the glacier is so huge, 4 km across and curved. The noise is the first warning you get by which time the ice has already hit the water. Every few years on average, the glacier advances all the way across ...

... uit El Chalten (waarover straks meer), stopte onze buschauffeur zelfs midden op de weg om de tegenligger voorbij te laten. Deze zette zijn bus echter recht voor de onze, beide chauffeurs stapten uit en... ze gingen een peukie roken. Gezellig collegaīs onder elkaar. Geweldig. Goed, El Chanten dus, home of the great Fitz Roy peaks. Drie uur rijden vanuit El Calafate ligt dit dorpje van 600 inwoners en een veelvoud aan toeristen. Een ATM hebben ze niet, maar wel hele fijne ...

Nous y voila. El calafate est une petite ville, base pour les excursions vers la partie sud du Parc National Los Glacieres et le Celebre glacier Perito Moreno. Pas aneanti par la journee sur le bord de la route a la sortie del Chalten, je m y remets ici avec succes. Un couple de Rio Gallegos, sur la cote atlantique de la provinve de Santa Cruz, me prend rapidement et m emmene jusqu au glacier qu il ...

... amb la piqueta... pim pam... i ja estā, el camí estā construit amb 4 o 5 nous esglaons. És facil d'obrir-se camí. A més a més el dia estā prou bé. Una mica tapat pel meu gust... p**ō no ens podem queixar. Al acabar la caminada, ens donen un whisky & unes galetes. Fa molta grācia trobar una taula enmig del no res amb gel del glaciar, molt ben parada... jejeje... Tornem al refugi passant p** un bosc molt espés. Dinem d'entrepā al refugi i, aproximadament a les 14.15 agafarem el ...

... a gaucho rode right past our window, followed by the usual pack of dogs - little things remind you that you are not in the UK! We are pottering around El Calafate today, then we are booked on a bus leaving for Puerto Natales (Chilean immigration here we come, again) at 8.30am tomorrow morning, a five-hour trip, through what should be some impressive landscape.

... fantastic news , the best candidate for the job thankfully won and itīs a truly momentous change for America and indeed the rest of the keenly watching world ! Back to the travel ... the Moreno glacier was magnificent and itīs a truly remarkable natural wonder. Itīs 5km wide , 30km long and up to 60 metres high and it is an "advancing" glacier that moves apparently over a foot each day renewing itself to compensate for the great chunks of the glacier ...