Rincon del Calafate

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

... person might not be able to afford thewm - I dont know now but thats just a guess. Anyway Ror was waking me at one stage and we were fed - we were so used to budget airlines at home where you have to buy the food that it was a nice surprise. We came through the clouds and in to land and the scenery was surreal. The land is so barren here - because of the climate not much can grow here and we were ...

... This is impossible to find in South America where there are shelves full of dulce de leche. To this day, I don't know why we didn't buy like 10 jars of good ole PB. We were able to arrange an immediate bus transfer to the national park and were on our way to the Pudeto ferry crossing. It was a beautiful sunny day, a point that cannot be emphasized enough and that we did not appreciate at the time, and our approach to the ...

... parents had paid for us to take a tour of the glacier, the highlight of which was to strap on krampons (oooooooh, Bodyform...) for a 2 hour "mini-trek" over the glacier, which sounded REALLY cool. Get it?! Nurse, my sides, etc ;)<br><br>The drive to the glacier was pretty cool, past a couple of bright blue lakes and then we caught sight of the glacier itself, which was absolutely breathtaking. It was just massive and we were really blown away. <br><br>Having ...

... of the estancia. Then Boo and I took a 1 hour horse ride while the Spaniards hiked through the hills. It was a lovely setting. The estancia is in the national park on a branch of Lago Argentina. After the horse ride, there was a sheep shearing demonstration that the shearer did with manual shears. How he managed not to chop off parts of the sheep in the process of shearing is a mystery to me. After the sheep shearing ...

... comfortable. I have much less to look forward to in Bolivia. <br><br>So, the whole reason for the stopover in El Calafate is to see one of the most spectacular glaciers on the planet. More ice? Yes, I obviously can not get enough of the stuff. Surprisingly, even to me, the fame of the Moreno Glacier did not diminish the experience. It was actually quite different seeing a massive glacier surrounded by forested mountains. <br><br>The ...

We only stopped in Rivadavia for a layover on the bus system. We were told it would only be for 3 hours, no, it turned into 9 hours. Luckily I have some hobo skills and fell asleep on a park bench to kill some time. And we cant forget the internet. How ...

Passed through Comodoro Rivadavia on my way south just long enough to see it's a major petroleum area. An interesting note in my guidebook is that Argentina is self-sufficient in petroleum with a full one third coming from this area alone. This isn't the place to scenery. More of the desert scrubland that dominates the landscape here with the occasional series of hills or forest grove hugging the shores of a river. Some nice looking rivers though, and I've ...

stopped over here for a few hours en route to bariloche, which for the record is not sure how far from Calafate, but bc we like to do everything in the wrong season, the road is closed. and i am sure it wouldnt take the 33 hours it did in he right season ...

Trelew, Punta Tombo and Comodoro A quick 1 hour in the bus and I arrived at the town of Trelew. Its not a very exciting place, but the weather was nice and I had a couple of days before I needed to be down here in Comodoro Rivadavia, so I thought I would stop and see some penguins! About half a million burrowing Magellan penguins live in a colony in a place called Punta Tombo, almost 2 hours by gravel road from Trelew. And when I say gravel, I don´t mean regularly shaped driveway ...