Parque El Calafate

... had a steak while Gem had Patagonian Lamb with roast vegetables. Possibly the best steak I've ever had. I'd give it a 6 out of 5, and beef steak is now firmly at the top of my favourite meats list. Gem's lamb was also delicious and we indulged in some Argentinian wine which was also mighty fine - amazing.<br><br>So, day 3 (today) ... We went on an hour and a half bus journey to one of the most famous glaciers in the world located in the glacier national park - although to be honest I ...

... Torre and Torres del Paine, but it provided a great base to acclimatise ourselves to the shock of the Patagonian wind.<br><br>We'd read that it was windy down here, so windy in fact that they say "it can strip a man to the bone". With the wind rushing down from the nearby icefields across the Lago Argentino, "blowy" is probably a slight understatement. <br><br>Lago Argentino is, in fact, the country´s largest lake. It's primarily glacial water ...

<br>Oi amigos, tudo bem? Tive um dia muito bom hoje, o tour do Glaciar Perito Moreno. Estava preocupado com o tempo e realmente o dia comecou meio feio. Saimos as 9:20hs num percurso de 80Km, parte destes jah dentro do Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. Nevou ontem a noite, entao estava tudo branquinho, bonito.<br><br>Em El Calafate estamos na estepe patagonica onde soh existem arbustos baixos, terra escuro e poucas montanhas nao muito altas. 300mm de chuva por ano em media. Em direcao ao parque ...

... passport control we drove to the Argentina immigration building and did the same there before finally getting on our way. The views were just incredible, everything covered in snow making it look so magical and beautiful. We were so pleased to be in Argentina, driving through remote areas with nothing but white covering everything in sight, then we stopped again. This time we had broken down, the bus would not start. We should have taken this all as some sign that maybe ...

... forest for two hours which is beautful and leads a walkway to more glaciers. You get back to the bus around 5pm. Lunch is not included. So I am excited about this tour, but the only problem was that it was raining badly when I went on it. I was drenched! and cold lol. But it was worth it. By camera died the last hour so i was not able to take pictures of the biggest glacier at the park the Upsala. It was beautiful to see up close and in person. So ...

... Mary that I was a marathon runner. In the sun, the trail was warm, in the shade of the trail that then cut down past Campamento Chileno and through the forest along the river, it was cold. The beech forests would clear and give us views of waterfalls thundering down the side of the canyon walls, the fall colors of the forests that dotted the lower part of the mountains, the snow-capped peaks themselves, and increasingly the ...

So I made a mistake in an earlier entry... I had written that I was looking forward to seeing my first glacier... I am not sure what I was thinking but I have already seen two others! One at Cotopaxi, Ecuador and the other was in El Cocuy, Colombia! However... this was my first glacier, glacier... I mean the big daddy of glaciers- the type you think of when you hear ...

... settle for being really, really impressed. The strangest thing about glaciers is that you lose all sense of scale and proportion when admiring them. Only occasionally do you realise just how big the damn thing actually is. Even on the boat which took us reasonably up close and personal with the wall of ice it was still impossible to appreciate its magnitude. We were a little unlucky on ...

... nach Regen aus. Wir beziehen ein 4 Bett Zimm** im "i Keu Ken" Hostel, welches wirklich nett ist. Wir buchen eine Tour fu** Sonntag, gehen kurz einkaufen und entspannen den Rest des Tages. Divendres XIX - XII - MMVIII. A les 7am el bus Zaahj ens passa a buscar p** l'hostal. Anem al Calafate. És la mateixa direcció que Torres del Paine. Són unes 5h amb bus. I com que hem de passar la front**a de vegades es fa un xic més llarg. Entre pitus i flautes s**an les 12.45 quan arribem. Trobem ...

... a little village in Patagonia Argentina. It is unusually sunny, quaint and has a ski town feel. It is situated in the southern border of Lake Argentino, in the southwest part of the Santa Cruz Province, Its name comes from a little bush with yellow flowers very common in Patagonia, with dark blue berries. As soon as I arrived at my hostel I booked my first tour to the glacier. We drove into the park to take our first view of the beast ...