Our next stop was a town called El Calafate in Southern Argentina in the Patagonian region of South America. We managed to book a flight from Buenos Aires and avoid ourselves another couple of days worth of bus journeys. This was definitely the right decision as the views from the plane were amazing especially when we flew over the lakes and sno...

שלום לכולם! דבר ראשון חג שמח!!!!!!! אין לי כוח לכתוב באנגלית וגם אין לי הרבה זמן חזרנו לפני כמעט שבוע מה TORRES DEL PAINE היה ממש יפה וגם היה אחלה מזג אויר. פגשנו כל מיני אנשים טובים בדרך- התמונות יעלו יותר מאוחר. בגדול זה שלושה עמודי אבן ענקיים שבזריחה הם נצבעים באדום מהמם. לפחות זה מש שהתמונות והציליאנים טוענים. מכיוון שלא פגשנו אף אחד בדרך שר...

Few glaciers on earth matched the activity and excitement of the blue-hued Moreno Glacier. Its 200 feet high jagged ice-peaks sheer off and crash-land with gigantic splashes and thunderous rifle-cracks, birthing small tidal waves and large bobbing icebergs. When we were there, we saw this action first hand. Moreno is about 50 miles from the town...

Headed out to "Shamrocks" on Thursday night with some Americans to sink a few Quilmes. Managed to get 3 hours sleep before dragging myself to the airport in the morning to get my flight to El Calafate. People have warned me that's it's on the chilly side at this time of the year and several questioned my sanity. But I had my heart set on seeing ...

From Buenos Aires we chose a 2 hour flight over 34 hours on a bus and before we knew it we were in southern Patagonia! This windswept and mountainous land is famous and we were excited to experience it. We landed in the town of El Calafate, which is more or less in the desert area of Patagonia, but only about an hour from the mountainous area. E...

I have just arrived in El Calafate, which is in the south Lake District of Argentina. I'm heading to the Moreno Glacier tomorrow where I'm planning to go minitrekking over the glacier. Ice spikes and all. I had arranged to meet up with the spanish girls and a spanish couple here and we went to dinner last night with another couple that they had ...

The Perito Moreno glacier is 45 miles long, 5 miles wide and 180 m high. 60 m is visible above the surface of the lake. The glacier is still moving. It is truly an awe inspiring sight. From time to time you hear loud cracks comparable to lighting as one piece of ice dislodges another. Pieces at the edge of the glacier sometimes fall off and this...