finally got hostel rooms with tv´s and even a remote!!!! woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooooooo [View Full Entry]

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I had to use the title. I have been freezing! It has all been a little crazy over the last week or so. Arrived in Coihayque and it poured down with rain the whole time I was there which was a huge shame. The town is nestled in the mountains and everywhere you look there is a mountain peak to admire. The tourist office was not where the guide book said and I spent the morning freezing in internet cafes or wandering around trying to find the tourist office or someone who could explain how the buses worked. Eventually I struck [View Full Entry]

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So for the last couple of days I have been entertaining myself at border crossings! I left El Calafate and the glacier as soon as possible and took the long way round bus back across to the east side of Argentina to get another bus heading back west and a couple of hundred Kms away from El Calafate. This is when you start realising that traveling this far south is not always as straight forward as it would seem looking at maps. There is a lack of roads and bus companies - especially at the end of the season.... I got [View Full Entry]

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alana typed up a fantastic little thing but it doesn´t seem to be posting. so in the interim I am going to to post a bunch of photos from puerto moreno glacier and parque nacional torres del paine. [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, We completed our five days of trekking in Parque Nacional Torres del Paine yesterday and returned to Puerto Natales safe and sound late last night. A few additions to our last email: El Calafate, Argentina is named after the calafate berry. It is a purplish-black berry similar in appearance to a blueberry, but darker. It grows on bushes in Patagonia. The taste is akin to a mix of blueberry and black grapes. Mild, not too sweet, slightly astringent. We had calafate flavored icecream in the town of El Calafate. Also, they make chirimoya (cherimoya) flavoured yogurt and i [View Full Entry]

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I am writting fast so sorry for the spelling errors. we just spent three beautiful but cold days in el calafate. it is basically a gateway town to parque nacional las galciers, the home of perito moreno glacier. it is difficult to imagine what the glacier looks like except to stand in front of it, open mouth, gasp, say a couple of explatives, repeat. the glacier rises up out of the water 180 feet and is roughly 20km deep. for those who have been to the grand canyon and looked over the edge and sort of felt humbled by the experience, [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, We left Ushaia on the 20th. Travelled north to Rio Gallegos. On the way there, we crossed into and out of Chile. This meant four border crossing stations (out of Argentina, into Chile, out of Chile, and back into Argentina) and four passport stamps in one day! Rio Gallegos is not a real touristy town. We wanted to keep moving, so we only stayed the night and moved on to El Calafate. We stayed in El Calafate a couple nights. The second day, we visited the Perito Moreno Glacier in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. Until recently (approximately fifteen to [View Full Entry]

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So let me just start off by saying what an amazing weekend....probably one of the best ever. It started off on Wednesday evening. 32 American students, including myself, got on a bus with a LOT of beer (i still dont like it but its cheap and im getting a lil used to it). We left at 9 30 and arrive in Pucon the following morning at around 9 am. Pucon is near the Argentina border in the Andes mountains. And let me just say..its Beautiful! We stayed at El Dorado which is a large piece of land with beautiful cabañas. I [View Full Entry]

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10 days travelling from santiago to Puerto Puyuhuuapi in Patagonia. [View Full Entry]

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Hello! We travelled to the Chilean towns of Punta Arenas (12 hours from Ushuaia) and then onto Puerto Natales where we would travel through the Chilean fjords on the Navimag ferry. We had just enough time to travel back into Argentina to visit the towns of El Calafate and El Chalten where we spent a few days checking out the sites in these places. El Calafate is home to the Perito Moreno glacier and the latter is home to the beautiful Fitz Roy range. Unfortunately, we have downloaded all the pictures from these two places onto a CD which is now [View Full Entry]

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