Hotel De Campo Kau Yatun El Calafate

... shave off about 37 seconds of their drive. "Yes, I believe that is the correct way to drive on this road" Duncan replied.<br><br> They arrived at the airport with only a minor dent in the side of the cab and happily proceeded to secure the emergency exit seats for their four hour flight to Calafate. When the plane touched down after two hours into their ...

... so often, mountains in the distance. It reminds me quite a bit of the American old west. Today we are mainly relaxing and tomorrow will be a trip to the Perito Moreno glacier - the main reason we came to Calafate. FYI calafate is a type of fruit they grow here. It is very tasty. Not sure when I will post next - the hotel has computers but they are slow and I don´t know if I can post pics. It may be in the next couple days or I may wait until Buenos Aires on Saturday. Bye for now).

... Not strays or pavement specials, but well looked after healthy mutts, hanging around as if they own the place - just like the yobs in London!<br><br>One of the constant highlights of this trip has been and will be the people we meet. Theres something very special about meeting strangers on a bus or in a hostel, hardly knowing their names, sharing a couple of bottles of great wine and swapping stories and having a laugh then parting as great friends a ...

... I relaxed at the coffee shop, where I indulged in an amazing cup of hot cocoa (in front of Mary's abstaining from sweets for Lent eyes) and where we purchased our first poster for our eventual apartment. I still can't believe it. We returned to Calafate, seeing a beautiful and perfectly-arced rainbow over Lago Argentina on the way back, and wandering the streets we stumbled upon a wonderful and romantic Italian restaurant ...

... fantastic scenery, reminiscent of the highlands of Scotland on a much bigger scale, we reached the Perito Moreno glacier. I am probably not alone in never having seen a glacier before and to be honest I didn't know what to expect. It was big. It was huge. Like a gigantic sweeping carpet it rolls down off the mountains and advances at a staggering 2 metres per day. The visable wall rises 60 metres above ...

... of Argentina, and are planning a big road trip through Chile. We spent the better part of today negotiating a reasonable price for car hire and are due to sign the contract tonight. I aim to keep this blog updated from this point in time onwards...so if you have a few spare moments in the upcoming months, be sure to revisit this blog. As our Spanish improves and we are able to communicate more effectively with local people, I hope to shed some ...

... ai rencontré pas mal de gens dans cette auberge, dont une belge! Comme quoi, on est sensés être peu par ici, mais j'ai rencontré trois compatriotes en seulement une semaine! Je dois dire que j'ai un peu de mal à croire que ça fait déja plus de deux semaines que je suis ici! Ça passe vraiment trop vite. Enfin, il me reste encore beaucoup à faire et à voir, mais j'en profite en maximum, ça c'est certain!

... dag was D-Day! Vandaag gaan we Perito Moreno beklimmen. Deze gletscher is 30 km lang en start hoog in de Andes. Het uiteinde komt uit in een groot meer waar de wanden van de gletscher soms wel 70m hoog zijn. Na anderhalf uur rijden zagen we de eerste glimpsen van de gletscher en er ging een spontane WAUW door de hele bus. Dit is echt ongekend. Er was een soort van balkon gebouwd waar we tot op 100m van de massieve wanden ...

... ready. It was a lot of fun, just hanging out, drinking good wine and talking with everyone. I went to bed pretty early, (2 am) but the bbq was still going on until about 5 am! Its amazing the people I have met and their stories. There were two older guys in the hostel, probably in their 50s, who had just bought some horses and were going on a 2 month journey with their horses and two other friends throughout Torres del Paine, a park in Chile. Who even thinks of doing that!!