Picos Del Sur Hotel Calafate

... vertically up the ice! Was quite daunting at first seeing as if you fell over on the ice it would take ur skin off. Finished off the trek with a scotch on the rocks (rocks from the glacier), was a nice touch. We then headed back to the hostel and flew to Buenos Aires. HAd enough of long buses and a bus would have taken 2 days! <br>

... It was one place we really didnt want to leave and could have stayed watching all day but shar and myself had to leg it come ten past 3 for the bus which was leaving-everyone on bus felt the same as us-that it really was mind blowing. Hopefully the pics will do it justice but i doubt it.<br>Back we got that night and went to the town to eat out in a trendy bookstore type bar and we booked our next days excursion to Chalten which was to be a very very tiring long ...

... bags on the bus (unlike crossing over to Singapore) and had to lift the border gate ourselves. In doing our shopping the day before, we completely forgot that we would be crossing a border and be subject to an agricultural inspection. Alas, our carefully planned provisions were stripped of all of our apples and delicious salami. Mary handed out a bag of apples to everyone in the customs line and I downed a bag of salami at ...

... Glacier itself, however these huge icebergs in the water were in fact a big plus to the cruise - it was really amazing! Being in front of the Spegazzini Glacier is impressive as well, you feel so small in front of this wall of ice. The cruise is done on a catamaran and holds about 250 people, for added confort and a bit more exclusive service I paid the extra 100 pesos (20 euros) for the VIP lounge in the captain´s room. Beside being seated ...

18/2/09-21/2/09 Well it was another overnight bus, but this one was for 28hrs! We got to El Calafate via a small part of the famous route 40 but took the route 3 for most of it (this way is much quicker). Well what can I say, El Calafate is another windy cold Patagonian town. The only reason to really come here is ...

We s*w one the most incredible things we h*ve ever seen with our own eyes tod*y. Perito Moreno Gl*cier. I'll st*rt you *t the beginning. We booked * bus ride to the gl*cier l*st night...to be picked up *t 9:00 *m *t our hostel this morning. We woke up *t 8:51 *m. I don't think M*rie *nd I h*ve ever hopped out of bed f*ster th*n we did this morning. We b*sic*lly threw on the first things we found *t the top of our suitc*ses, threw some food in our b*ckp*ck, found ...

... amounts of wine. while it would have been better if you all were HERE, i don't think this Christmas could have been any better if i had spent it at home.. only different. Certainly not worse, and in a lot of ways better/more comfortable. But being comfortable sometimes makes us lazy, and I think i felt a slight lack of inertia in my life. While i have to come back and 'face reality' at some point, I certainly have not been sitting ...

Leaving Chile behind was unexpectedly hard. For such a small sliver of South America it's been one of our favourite countries to visit. Reputedly the most expensive we would argue you still get excellent value for money, there's no siesta time to royally screw up your day and the wines are fair superior to their Argentinean neighbours, that and their Patagonian lamb is hard to beat (we're still looking). That aside we continued into ...

... If I ruled the wooorld..."<br><br>We tried 4 ATMs in town, none of which were able to dispense any cash (cheers), so ended up practically sprinting back to the hostel to make our 08:30 collection, without getting any money out an with the princely sum of about 100 pesos to our name! <br><br>The tour company were fine about it, providing that we pay them tonight, but neither of us were completely comfortable sitting on the bus sweating and penniless ...