El Calafate Ranches - Reviews and Rates

We cheated, we took a flight down south to El Calafate. This isn't so bad because this country is so huge if you wanted to travel it properly without using the aeroplane you would spend days stuck in a coach. Taking the easy option we arrived in Patagonia, a place despite some persons assertions of it being a separate country, is in fact the Sou...

Chris and I did our last excursion together on Christmas Eve: a boat ride along the lakes to see 2 very impressive glaciers in this National Park for Glaciers. They weren't the biggest glacier though, I'm saving that one for some climbing and trekking. Celebrated Christmas Eve with people in our hostel. We had a medley of meets served, beef, chi...

We woke up and it was cold, damn cold, and windy, damn windy, that fleece I have been packing around gathering cobwebs was about to earn its stripes The bus picks us up for the transfer to Puerto Bandera, about 40 min drive away, and from where the boats leave, we learn later that 680 people are doing the tour today, on 4 boats, we see them ther...

Hola Everyone! We are on our last major trip arriving in the small town of El Calafate in southern inland Patagonia, set on a beautiful backdrop of mountains and Lago (Lake) Argentino, providing our base to see Glacier Perito Moreno and Torres Del Paine (on the Chilean side). Anyway here are some prelim piccies of our trip to Perito Moreno glaci...

El Calafate is described in the lonely planet as a touristy town that is the gateway to the perito moreno glacier. To better visualize this, picture one long street with many many T-shirt and other touristy shops and you've almost been there. The Glacier is amazing though!! It is so large and beautiful that it is just mesmerizing. I think we hav...