Hosteria Austral El Calafate

... that the sun has been on the glacier for the morning it starts to break. The sound of breaking is unique and as the ice splashes into the water it makes a gigantic wave. Incredible! This glacier is special because it is the only moving glacier. It moves 2 meters a day! Thats the size of a regular Florida alligator. True story. <br><br>What an adventure. Truly glad I took this oppurtunity to see Perito ...

... br><br>A paisaagem da Patagonia eh diferente da que vih na Terra do Fogo. Aqui exsitem mais planicies com vegetacao predominantemente baixa e algumas poucas montanhas nao muito elevadas. Faz um pouco menos frio. Ontem o dia estava lindo mas hoje na hora do almoco mudou e agora o ceu estah todo coberto.<br><br>Passei a manha no centro da cidade. El Calafate, fundada em 1927, tem aproximadamente 6000 habitantes. Eh simpatica, mas gostei mais de Ushuaia. Minha ...

... cone of South America, encompassing parts of Chile and Argentina, that is known as Patagonia is also mostly very dry and windswept steppe - flat alpine plains. Flying down the eastern coast of Argentina, we observed the beautiful Atlantic coast and miles and miles of the steppe cut by dirt roads. The Andes range causes the Patagonian steppe quite similarly to how the Himalayan range causes the lush and monsooned India to the ...

... El Calafate reigning champions in a nail biting match despite some odd (perhaps even made up - it got heated but Austrolombia wasn't gonna be polite and let the hosts win. What kind of message would that send to our people?) local rules. We jumped on a bus the next day (another early hungover morning) as champions, with more Spanish words in our vocab and more chunder in the toilet bowl than when we arrived.. Mission successful. Thanks Julian and Hector for a top few nights!

... stoer rond te stampen over dit wonder der natuur. De smeltgaten in het ijs zijn zo diep dat je volgens de gids in de metro van Beijing eindigde als je er inviel en eerlijk gezegd hadden wij wel een voorstel voor iemand om naar China te sturen. Typische Amerikaan, scheit aan alles, wat het ijs ook een soort bruine kleur gaf (zie foto´s). Nee hoor, dit is slijtage van de bergen in de omgeving, de gletsjer duwt letterlijk alles in zijn weg opzij. Gelukkig hadden we ook ...

from the end of the world, we flew (instead of taking a 12 hour bus ride) 45 mins to a small town called Rio Gallegos. from there, we were hoping to take a four hour bus ride to a town called El Calafate in the heart of the Patagonian mountains. first off, don´t assume anything... don´t assume that there will be a bus. and if there is a bus, don´t assume that it will come on time even though all the other buses have come on time and you have no other reason to believe ...

... altre cop de tornada cap al port. Allà el bus ens esp**a i ens portarà a les t**races. Són unes t**races immenses des d'on es pot contemplar la part nord i la part sud del glaciar. T'hi pots passar hores contemplant i pots** tens la sort de veure el procés d'un trencament - ruptura-, no sé si m'explico, s**ia com un catacrec! seguit d'un silenci... i un gran xooooooofff... al final. Tornem a l'hostal a mitja tarda, pels volts de les 5pm, ara caminem més lleug**es sense els crampons :) jejeje...

... 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.

... t read my camera cards, but the guy let me plug in my own card reader and that worked fine. Thankfully his PC was also miles faster than the ones for us punters, so the images were burnt in no time. <br><br>While he did that I was able to load some new photos for Chile &amp; Argentina onto Facebook, but as usual Travelpod proved more difficult, the PC was having none of their photo-loading software unfortunately. <br><br>After going through the ...