The Perito Moreno Glaciar The Perito Moreno Glaciar

The Perito Moreno Glaciar

An amazing sight, whether you've seen big glaciars recently or not! For an idea of scale, try to spot the people in the bottom left of the pic.


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Argentine  Flag 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 a... [read more]
Blog: Whistle stop through Argentina
Date: May 7th 2006

One thing that I wasn't ready for about Argentina was it's size. It's big. Really big. Although we'd planned the trip reasonably well, we're not the speediest travellers by a long way and as such were running out of time in a big way. Em being by far the more organised of the two of us had devised a way of seeing as much as possible given the vast distances involved and our very limited time to cr ... read more




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