nearly south, bus on fire, glaciers and Mountains

So I finally arrived in El Calafate, this is the place with the blue blue lake and the glaciers who break so impressive into the water.

bluemsche

But before some short story about my nearly 48 hour bustravel! Seat (cama) was great and I could strech my feet and sleep a while. The movie "Ned Kelly" was shown 3 times in a row so even for not fluent spanish speakers I got it! Then short before C. Olivia a tire got fire an we had to wait for 2 hours for another bus. This wasn't acutally so bad becaus it delayed our arrival in Rio Gallegos for a couple of hours and we did not arrive at 0:30, more about 6 am.

On the way to El Calafate we had a quite intense snowstorm! I really hope its not the rule here!

nice house, no?

Have been on the most impressive Glacier of the World and have seen the most impressive Pillars of Rock (Cerro Torre and F(r)itz Roy). Unluckly cought a cold right from the beginning to arrive there, but since the treks are all within a day distance I sayed in the Hostel and took just daytreks out in the nature. So after 3 days of trekking around El Chalten drove back in El Calafate. Right now im in The Marco Polo in Hostel and finally were able to upload the Pictures. Im will stay here maybee another day or two before im will hike the "W" trek in Torres de Paine National Park in Chile.

nice trailer

probably the first car who arrived

dead tree

glacier, lake and the shy cerro torre

cerro torre shy again

lago argentino(a)

glacier perito moreno

full view of the glacier

fritz posing at the glacier

time for a mate

panorama view of the glacier

glacier from the boat, brr cold and windy

cemetry

cemetry again

rio gallegos, sunrise

statue at rio gallegos

what a shot, both of them

haha! got them

postcard?

sandbeach, here?

view of the pampa

a lada!

contryside