Kosten Aike

... It is a flight of just over 3 hours and we arrive in El Calafate around 4PM.  It is a 30 minute drive to our hotel, Kosten Aike, where we will spend 2 nights. This town was founded in 1927 and served as a stopping point on the road between the sheep ...

... . Arrived in El Calafate at 4, after another interesting ride through the Argentine pampa, and checked into the rather lavish Kosten Aike hotel. Wandered around the town which is quite an upmarket tourist spot before dinner.  Some confusion over ...

Today was  a travel day. We had a 2:30 AM call for bags to make our flight to El Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina. It was a five-hour flight and the only flight to El Calafate. The good news was that we arrived at10:30 AM, the designated time on ...

After breakfast we head for Parque Nacional los Glaciares and the Perito Moreno glacier.  We take Rt. 15, a dirt road that offers better wildlife viewing and panoramic views of Lake Argentino than does the paved Rt. 11.  Along the way we see ...