24 hours worth of buses through unremittingly flat, bleak landscape brought us to El Calafate in southern Patagonia. We'll use this town as a base to visit El Chalten and Puerto Natales in Chile and do some trekking. El Calafate is a cute, ski-resort style town with fancy hotels and hostels springing up everwhere. I imagine it is trying to posit...

So the homeward leg began and when you are at the bottom of the world, the only way is up! We headed North, back through the many checkpoints of Tierra Del Fuego. I´m glad to day that this time the journey was pretty uneventful. The wind was almost non-existent and I managed to catch forty winks. We were heading back to Rio Gallegos to catch a b...

El Calafate is a nice little touristy place, the main purpose of which is to provide a base for viewing the nearby Perito Moreno glacier. The town is nice enough with lots of great restaurants and souveneir shops, and with a little bit of time and a lot of money, I think I would really love it there. Anyways, money doesnt grow on trees, and as i...

Perito Moreno the Perito Moreno glacier is the main justification for super-touristy El Calafate, a strange town of tour agencies, outdoor gear shops and restaurants. It has a casino too. Our first night (excluding the dossing down in the bus station en route to El Chalten) was a bad one. thinking we deserved the luxury of a bed, we headed to a ...

Back to last night. S treated me to a very nice birthday dinner in town. I had a fantastic tenderloin steak and tiramisu for dessert and Boo had a sirloin. S had some kind of chicken dish. Our steaks were both cooked perfectly. It was a very nice time. Boo had a bit of a meltdown when we got back to the hotel. I think she was just plain exhauste...

Monday morning we got up bright an early for a 7am departure for our boat cruise through Glacier park. Things were festive at breakfast as a big up for it group lit sparklers and sang. Lisa suggested it was KC in about 20 more years. Check out the short video. We opted for the VIP tickets which was the best extra $10 we spent. We were in the cap...

Thursday morning was an early start (6.30am...hours before Sam wakes up for work!), we were both excited at the prospect of seeing some glaciers. Our tour bus drove for about an hour till we reached the entrance to Parque Naçional de los Glaciers (a UNESCO world heritage site). As well as the glaciers, the park also includes mountains, rivers, l...

"May you´ve gotta update!" - day after day I find myself thinking.. However, lack of.. or extortionate priced internet access is to blame. So I´m now referring to a accumulated batch of doodles and rough notes to create this entry. Howdy all! It certainly has been a while since I last inserted a long-winded blog piece. Sit comfortably, grab the ...

Go to the Summary Page ___________________________ When I got up at 6 it was still pitch black, and I had to get out of bed, and into the main lounge, to look through the giant window and see that the stars were visible. There were maybe a few clouds, but the weather was generally clear, so we had to go. I woke up Milva, we got ready, and hurrie...

The major attraction in the southern side of Los Glaciers National Park is the Perito Moreno glacier. We took a trip from our hostel in El Calafate and drove through valleys and forests and past the beautiful Lago Argentina to get there. We then hiked for an hour along the edge of the lake, stopping for increasingly impressive and close-up views...