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The Mighty Perito Merino
... with the glacier dipping into just one edge and into yet more snow capped mountains.... we could have stayed all day. As if the sights weren't enough, our senses were completely struck by the 'noise' of the glacier too... a constant creaking, cracking and bits dropping off... of course we were hoping for that 'once in a lifetime' photo shot with ice splashing into the water but equally knew we wouldn't get it!! ...
Bergen...ze maken me zo zot meneer
... wind in de Argentijnse pampas een fikse keelontsteking opgelopen. Wel praatjes kunnen maken met Estanceros (denk cowboys die zo'n 10.000 hectare land hebben en even veel schapen en koeien), postbodes en rijke zalmhandelaars. Da's eens iets anders. De estanceros maken ook snel duidelijk dat de puma (die ik nog niet zag) hun vijand is en ze die gewoon neerknallen. Vorig jaar had mijn estancero 200 schapen verloren aan een puma...
Toegekomen in ...
All this ice and no G&T!!!
... into the freezing waters below and
creating a huge wave that spread out in all directions. Not just outward from
the glacier's ...
So here we are in the land of Argentinian glaciers
... up later, safe and sound in the footwell in front of Diana!
Anyway, we went back through the Argentinian and Chilean border posts – the latter being where we had earlier suffered the drama with the car rolling off its jack - this time with less crowds of people and so very much faster than before. By then we were back on the gravel but we soon took the fork in the road which would take us westwards to Porvenir and the ferry across to Punta Arenas. This road, unlike ...
Perito Moreno
Perito Moreno
Nach dem offiziell SCHOENSTEN Nationalpark Suedamerikas, dem "Torres del Paine ", machten wir uns auf, den SCHOENSTEN Gletscher Suedamerikas namens Perito-Moreno zu besichtigen (die Lateinamerikaner haben offensichtlich genau den gleichen Hang zu Superlativen wie ihre Nachbarn in den USA. Wenigstens reklamieren sie diese nur intrakontinental und nicht wie die US-Amis gleich fuer die ganze Welt).
Zu diesem ...