Perito Moreno Glacier

It´s just a big block of ice......right?

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December 13th 2006
The next stage of our trip was to the south of Argentina and Chile, to a vast region known ominously as Patagonia. I had been in Patagonia previously, when I was in Bariloche and Puerto Madryn, yet they did not prepare me for the sheer vastness and extremeness (I think I just made a new word) of this area the further south you go. We flew from Buenos Aires to El Calafate in Argentina, which wa ... 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