All-day boat ride to see more glaciers and lots and lots of iceburgs.

Amazing amazing amazing. So Jess and I have finally made it to Patagonia! Victory! The trip down was long, two 14 hour days on a bus, on bumpy roads...however we have both discovered we can read on buses which makes the time fly. The trip went without incident until about 6pm the second day when a huge rock from the road flew up from the wheel, ...

The border crossing c*used more *nnoy*nce *s the Chile*n one h*d two mens toilets *nd only one womens!! *nd the Argentin* side h*d * m*n inputting *ll the p*ssport det*ils with one finger *nd it took *ges!!!!! Once there we got * t*xi to the hostel vi* *nother youth hostel *s Mr T*xi driver didn´t seem to know where he w*s going. We r*n into the...

We had our first bus let down on Monday / Tuesday, it picked us up half an hour late from Puerto Madryn, but by the time we arrived in Rio Gallegos, it was running 3 hours late and we had missed our connection to Ushuaia. We think the lateness was caused mostly by the ridiculous number of times we were stopped at police checkpoints. The police w...

Afterwards, we took a plane to El Calafate: A "tourists´-town" in the middle of nowhere, home for tourists, mostly Israeli, and tourists´-services-providers, making a fortune from us all. We took "The usual attraction" to the breaking glacier - which is rather nice as there are pieces falling from it all the time :)

We left Chile to return to Argentina and set off across the dusty antiplano passing the most gorgeous turquoise waters of Lake Argentina to the small town of El Calafate. This is a little tourist stop with many souvenior shops on the main street selling chocolate (wonderful), restaurants (the best steak I have tasted) and local crafts (purchased...

In Argentina (country number 11) our first stop was in El Calafate where we went to visit the Perito Moreno glacier. We organised a trip that took us on a bit of a hike (nothing compared to Torres del Paine thank goodness) around the park area near the glacier. The glacier was HUGE and lots of chunks of it kept breaking off into the lake. Of cou...