Patagonia Park Plaza Kempinsk El Calafate

... hour flight Duncan said to Nadine "Look, I shouldn't have worried so much about us not going to Barriloche , we get to have a brief stop here after all and it's raining anyway, that wouldn't have been any good for the big hike I had <br>envisioned."<br> <br> <br>They had no difficulty in finding their bags at the tiny Calafate airport and quickly ...

After a rather long bus trip of almost 30 hours (extended by delays, missed connections etc), we arrived in El Calafate in order to visit the famous Glacier Moreno. <br><br>Similar to visiting the Iguassu Falls, regardless of the pictures you have seen before hand, it really is something special. <br><br>While we had ...

... hours later. Names, ages, nationalities and religions are not important. People are people and they are great. Everyone has a story worth listening to. One of the greatest blessings of this trip will be having the opportunity and time to listen.<br><br>So we're all iced-over and glaciered-out now and its time for the mercifully short 4 hour bus to our next stop, Puerto Natales in Chile, where we get on board our 4-day Navimag cruise through the Chilean fjords...

... La Cocina. The decorations were charming, the paint colors were vibrant, the service was outstanding and I enjoyed the finest pumpkin ravioli I have ever had. We would return here for a much deserved feast before leaving Patagonia. Mar 25 was a day of errands as we were planning our trek out to Torres del Paines, across the imaginary line in Chilean Patagonia. We visited Big Head, overpaid for internet access (as we would be ...

... The wind was bordering on the ridiculous. I couldn't help but crack a smile, but it didn't last for long. Then I saw it. An incline in the road but no hill - a freaking bridge! An elevated bridge over a navigable river, with no shoulders The river ran down from a gorge, and I knew the wind would be worse on the bridge. I braced myself as best I could - and made it over. When I finally got to the border at San Sebastian I was wiped. That evening I ...

Just a quick entry. We enjoyed the rest of our day in Puerto Madryn. As I said, we had a last walk on the pier to see some last-minute whales. Actually they were a bit distant, and we couldn´t get any good photos of them, but we did meet a couple of young sealions lying on the pier, fast asleep in the sun. We walked a bit further up the pier and saw ...

Nach ungefähr 30 Stunden im Bus von Neuquen bin ich doch ganz froh eine Pause zu haben um eine Nacht richtig zu schlafen um morgen dann weiter nach Rio Turbio und von dort aus dann endlich nach Chile in den Torre del Paine National Park zu kommen! Rio Gallegos hat nicht wirklich viel zu bieten außer mal wieder ein Dinomuseum.Die meisten ...

... of multiple ziplock bags filled with porridge, sugar and powdered milk (can´t risk the bacteria in the real M´Coy) and we both bought whole orchard amounts of dried fruit salad from a guy called ¨The Dried Fruit Man¨. We said good-bye to Paula, a short Chilean mum who runs the hostel ¨Nikos 11¨. Paula treated us as though we were her daughters. When you walked in the door of the house she would put down her tapestry and ask you how your day was and was very ...

... They were desperate for entertainment and there was little traffic so they talked with us for a couple of minutes, asking if American cops were nicer or meaner than they were. Liz proved to be a master of the new Río Gallegos highway slalom. We were soon downtown and got a nice room at the Apart-Hotel Austral. We walked down to the Café Monaco for lunch. It was surprisingly warm and sunny. I ...