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Ice Ice Baby

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November 12th 2008
El Calafate - pleasant enough place with one major attraction - The Perito Moreno Glacier one of the truly memorable sights of Patagonia. This is the highlight of the Parque Nacional los Glaciares which is contained in the Southern Patagonian ice field (which is the 3rd largest ice field in the world after Antartica and Greenland). The Perito Moreno glacier itself measures in at 30km long, 5km wid ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more