Off to the Glaciers in Patagonia's deep south
Trip Start
Nov 16, 2007
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Trip End
Dec 02, 2007
El Calafate,
Argentina
Saturday, November 24, 2007
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We took off from Bariloche's small airport to an even smaller (if not newer) airport in El Calafate. During the two hour flight, you really got a sense of the huge barren pampas that dominate most of southern Patagonia (the lakes region we just came from is where Patagonia is its most lush and colorful.
Patagonia pampas
The hotel we stayed at in El Calafate was called Kau Yutan (pronounced cow shoe taan) and it was on a working estancia (or ranch). We were greated with flowers, wine and homemade chocolates (our preferred greeting from this point on).
homemade chocolates, wine and flowersgreet us
The hotel is just outside of town and had some really nice views. they grow their own flowers and produce on the estancia. I had a drink in the living room of the hotel and watched puppies and dogs chasing the huge birds around the grounds.
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The weather was clear and sunny, but windy (almost always windy here). A light jacket and you are ok. We are so far south the sun doesn't set until about 10pm.
After some down time we headed to Pura Vida for dinner which came highly recommended and didn't disappoint. they even had veggy empanadas for lisa.
veggie empanadas!
We headed to bed since we have an 8an departure time for the Pertito Glaciers.
