RH Rochester Calafate El Calafate
Av Libertador 3614 El Calafate, Province of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, 9405, Argentina
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Day 8 - Glacier Day
The first issue today was how to get something to eat! The Israeli pensioner tour group had occupied the breakfast buffet and were trying to build a wall of toast between them and the rest of us. I know that we all have to get our money's worth but good lord these people were ruthless! They would take three of everything and eat a third at the …
Day 9 - In search of the petrified forest
The breakfast hall was a sea of calm this morning without the tour group and we had a lazy and relaxed breakfast.
We had read that a couple of tour companies in town did trips to see a petrified forest out in the desert so we decided to go and try and find it ourselves. We stopped off at the empanada shop to buy some freshly baked ham and …
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Im Reich der Gletscher angekommen
... geschlossen wurde... Und so war es dann auch.
Ein Tourist aus Israel hatte auf einem Wanderweg Toilettenpapier verbrannt und nicht richtig geloescht: In einem so unwegsamen Gebiet und mit den starken Winden eine unberechenbare Katastrophe. Meine geplanten Wandertage fielen also ins Wasser. Ich beschloss trotzdem einige Tage in Puerto Natales zu verbringen und hoffte, dass wenigstens ein Teil des Parkes oeffnen wuerde.
Meine ...
Cycling days 273 to 280 - O'higgins to El Calafate
... We are forced to take our time making our way to El Calafate – riding and creating our own extra windchill makes our muscles tense, especially the shoulders, and we have to stop often to stretch and attempt to get warm. We shelter from the wind by sitting on the ground using the road’s guard rail as a backrest and our bicycles as a wind break.
Being on dirt roads and out of civilization for the past month has ...
Nature Rules............OK
... Anyway enough of this imagery …we camped on a glacial river with all sorts
of creatures, hares, black headed swans, and even a fox that trotted past with
a rabbit in its mouth. Even more impressive are the circling Condors. They are
huge but a bit skittish and it is times like this we wish we had a decent
camera. I didn’t know but they don’t actually kill anything, but ...
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