El Calafate airport

Puerto Moreno and Torres del Paine

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April 5th 2012
I left Buenos Aires in the middle of the night to fly south to El Calafate, a small tourist town that was to be my first stop in Patagonia. I barely remember the flight – I crashed out instantly and awoke as we were landing with my untouched food placed kindly next to me. El Calafate airport is in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by the vast and empty Patagonian steppe, with only a few mountai ... 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