Parque El Calafate
Gobernador Gregores St. and 7 de Diciembre St. El Calafate, Province of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Z9405ADA, Argentina
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Perito Moreno glacier up close
... likely explaination is that its growth area is 70% of the glacier, allowing it to replenish lost ice, whereas most of the other well known glaciers are 50% growth area only and are retreating very rapidly.
After the walk, lunch, a quick change of weather to cold windy and rainy, after an hour an equally quick change to windy and sunny, then onto the viewing platform to watch ice crashing off the front of the glacier - ...
Cycling days 273 to 280 - O'higgins to El Calafate
... to be out of the lush vegetation of the Carratera Austral and back in the dry, open land along the Ruta 40, but one advantage of this setting is that we get to see the wildlife more easily. Today, we spot some Patagonian ostrich, condors, a skunk, birds of prey, and mice and martinetas scurrying through the scrub brush…and a squished armadillo.
The next 20km takes us 2-1/2 hrs to complete and we are grateful to find ...
Amazed at creation
... to see.
The bus reached its destination, El Chalten in the evening. We were unloaded to a hostel pre-arranged with the package... "a fabulous hostel" according to Fabian.
I didn`t find it fabulous. I was immediately turned off by the crowds of people as I walked inside to check in. I wanted to check out before I checked in.
That evening I left for a walk around to find myself a new place, down the one and only main road in ...
Nature Rules............OK
... we changed the
subject to football, and talked about Ossi Benayoun, Ronnie Rosenthal, and
Avi Cohen until we arrived in Porvenir.
These guys were fresh out of the army
having done National Service, and were a good advert for everything we talk
about National Service doing for our morons. We learned a lot about the Israeli
mindset, and the way their army functions, and ...
Walking on a big piece of ICE ICE baby
... global warming... its loving
it and advances with much gusto year after year. Its a big feller stretching to about 5km wide at its widest part. The bus journey from El Calafate took an hour with a few stops along the way for photo ops for those who couldn´t wait. The bus driver threw on the aul classical anthems like ´Time to say goodbye´(Boceli) as we edged closer and closer to the mamooth with every turn ...



