Mirador Del Lago Hotel El Calafate

... arrive on time. Shops that say they open at certain times don´t. You usually have to wait 15 to 20 minutes for them to open after the posted time. The latest example of this presented itself today. The hotel we are staying in has a shuttle that takes you down to the town (we are probably 8km outside of town). It came about 15 minutes late this morning to take us down. That´s fine. We tried to catch it coming back to the hotel at the posted time of 12:15 ...

... is the poster child of the area - Perito Moreno. As the main attraction of the park it is 30kms long, 5km wide and 60m high, not counting the 130-180m of it that is below the water and unseen! To describe these beasts of nature is really hard. Maybe the photos do it justice...<br><br>We walked along the 2km of viewing platforms trying to get our little pips accustomed to the size of the ice-wall we were looking at and the endless field of ice behind it, when ...

... along the point directly across from the glacier. The glacier goes back as far as the eye can see and climbs up the sides of the mountains like growing ivy. Again in the words of Jon Krakauer, "[the glacier] is a tongue of blue ice corrugated by a nubbly rash of seracs and crevasses". Just awesome. The blue/turquoise ice is so artifical looking it appears to have come from the Matterhorn at Disneyland. We spent nearly five ...

... it stopped more times than a bus!! Luckily after the first stop I could move into the seat next to the broken one (there was no such thing as seat numbers) and entertained myself watching someone else struggle with it for the rest of the flight! Anyway El Calafate seemed like a nice enough place but I was there for one thing, the Perito Moreno glacier. I have seen lots of glaciers so far and the one I saw on the Navimag ...

... in serious meat-eating, tango, dancing, partying and just immersing ourselves in the vibe...we have spent the remainder of the time in Patagonia. I have often believed that upon returning from travels it is usually the experience itself, the interesting people one met and the quirky moments that have made more of an impression on the traveller than a country's physical attributes such as historical buildings, scenery and tourist spots. There are ...

... régulier. Ce qui est également impressionant est le son qu'il produit: des grondements et des grincements sourds s'élèvent continuellement, comme si un géant emprisonné au coeur de la glace tentait de s'échaper! Il s'agit bien entendu du son du glacier avençant tout en raclant la roche et des fissures apparaissant et disparaissant sous la pression titanesque de cette rivière de glace (front de 5km de large, 15km de long depuis la zone d'accumulation de la ...

... voor Lester extra shocking omdat hij zich niet mentaal heeft kunnen voorbereiden om zijn paardrijtrip. De geschiedenis is namelijk als volgt: Lester heeft eenmaal in z´n leven op een paard gezeten en dat was in Frankrijk, Ardeche 1992. Marjolijn 6 jaar wilde op een pony rijden en paps huurde voor een uur een pony. Nadat Mar op het paard zat bleek het beest niet gewillig en het gevolg was dat Mar al huilend en schreeuwend van ...

... more expensive bus. It did show up to Puerto Madryn 2 hours late, however, which meant that I was stuck in the bus terminal waiting for a while, instead of enjoying my time on the beach. The 17 hours got me to Rio Gallegos where I then had to wait for 2 and a half more hours to catch another bus to get to El Calafate. That ride was only 4 hours. So, all together, it took about 27 hours to get there! Crazy...I will never complain about the China Town bus from New York to ...

... found a nice place to have a birthday dinner tomorrow and I walked into town to make sure my Fantasy Team were doing the business (the legends!) and catch up on our email. <br><br>I would LOVE to be able to load up some photos onto these entries, but for some reason Argentina seems to have the worst PC &amp; internet facilities that we've experienced anywhere so far, they're REALLY expensive and extremely unreliable. <br><br>Surely something's wrong when ...