http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Argentina , Santa Cruz , Los Glaciares National Park en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 13:45:13 +0000 Sat, 25 May 2013 13:45:13 +0000 Momenteel zetten we onze avonturen verder in ZuidAmerika. Straks reizen we naar Colombia en NoordPeru.Maar eerste het vierde en laatste verslag over Patagonia op www.patagoniandreams.comfor english version of this entry with more pics please visit www.patagoniandreams.com http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-784496.html Off to the Los Glaciares National Park today to see the Perito Moreno Glacier. Up at 6am to hunt for a taxi or bus company to take us out there. Ended up getting a bus tour for a good price but its still not cheap when you add in national park fee39s and a boat ride.Once again a spectacular day we can see Torres Del Paine in Chile clearly some 450kms away. The bus tour guide says that the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-776566.html Viagem Patagonia Argentina em familia.Nobile Edna Bruna Daniel e Fabrizio Oristanio Buenos Aires Parque Nacional Los Glaciares Glaciar Perito Moreno El Chaltn http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-776255.html Keeping in the national park theme from the Torres del Paine we headed next to the Parque Nacional Los Glaciers. The town of El Calafate sits at the southern edge of the park and its here that we base ourselves in a hostel for a couple of days to explore. Los Glaciers National Park is said to be home to some of the most spectacular scenery in all of Argentina if not South America well whoever http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-767053.html Patagonia is breathtaking.Good luck with weather. I might have traded in some Spanish for Italian and Portuguese portaol trying to converse with other tourists. Lost in Los antiguos but I39m trying to make my way to Chile today. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-766048.html IntroductionOn arriving in Patagonia somebody told me that the only thing extreme in Patagonia is the weather. I am not sure that is entirely true while the weather is certainly extreme the geography is too. Traveling through Patagonia you spend long periods starring out across endless plains and gentle rolling hills on which cattle graze and then suddenly the scenery changes to mountains and http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-765821.html Our heroes spend a long time on a bus in order to go walking. Lots and lots of walking. Lukcily this walking brings them into contact with some of nature39s greatest spectacles and not just tiredness Hurrah for nature El Calafate is quite a long way from Puerto Madryn. Actually quite a long way is completely the wrong phrase here a soul destroying bus ride or one and a quarter days of http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-748126.html Patagonien. Seit ich Bruce Chatwin gelesen habe wusste ich hier will ich hin. Chatwins Ziel war die Hhle von Milodn wo Resten von einem Riesenfaultier gefunden wurden. Wir brauchten nicht wie Chatwin 6 Monate um die Hhle zu finden wir schafften das schon am dritten Tag. Wenn ich 6 Monate dafr unterwegs gewesen wre htte mich die Hhle wohl ein Bisschen enttuscht. Gut ja sie is http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-708820.html When staying on the fringes of Los Glaciares National Park and contemplating a 4day trek the next week you can do one of two things rest up or warm up. Jo did the former I did the latter. On my own. For a blissful and fantastically scenic and gratifyingly energetic eight hours.Welcome to El Chalten gateway to the northern side of this dramatic national park in Argentine Patagonia.We had be http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-704218.html Since my ankle was still very sore today I wanted to take it easy and rest it for a day or two. I had given thought to a boat tour on the Lake to some other glaciers so I went ahead and did it today. It was a nice sized catamaran and full of people. We first went to the Spegazzini Glacier. The day was sunny and beautiful for the most part. The clouds come and go around the mountains causing it http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-697162.html Oh my heck This trip just gets better each day. Today was the Big Ice hike on the Perito Moreno Glacier. This is the reason that I am down here in Patagonia. When I start to plan my trips I pick up tour guide books and come up with very broad strokes of where I want to go and what I would like to see. From there I purchase air tickets in and out. That gives a good base of what I can do and then http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-696843.html Trip from El Chalten 30 mins on bus to lake then one hour to glacier on boat then walking and climbing with crampons and ice axes fantastic day amazing tee shirt weather unusual in this part of the world http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-691028.html Day 40 Saturday 19th November Up at 5.30am for our first tour in well near El Calafarte a boat trip to the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. This is a collection of glaciers including Perito Moreno which is one of the few advancing glaciers in the world. The bus collected us at 7.45am for the drive to the catamaran on the edge of the national park. These tours are expensive but most definitely w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-666617.html Aujourdhui mercredi 12 octobre nous prenons enfin un moment pour se replonger dans lcriture de notre blog. Cela fait dj 11 jours quaucun nouveau post na t crit et pour cause nous tions trs occups. Demain nous retournons dj Buenos Aires pour la dernire ligne droite. Mais revenons dabord sur les deux dernires semaines si vous le voulez bien. Aprs http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-658198.html Prekvapivo sme sa zobudili do pekneho skoro slnecneho dna. Dnes sme sa rozhodli vratit sa k ladovcu Piedras Blancas a jeho rovnomennej lagune a ist k nemu co najblizsie. Na mape ktoru sme dostali bola nakreslena cesta v skutocnosti sme sa cely cas skriabali cez popadane balvany a cestu si hladali sami. Vzdy sme si predstavovali ze ladovce su biele a trochu modre ale tento bol cely modry nasa http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-582754.html Nechceli sme stracat dalsi den a tak sme sa rozhodli ist do parku Parque Nacional Los Glaciares park ladovcov uz v tento den napriek tomu ze sme dorazili v skorych rannych hodinach a velmi sme sa nevyspali. Este v hoteli sme si pobalili veci na vylet pockali kym sa rozvidnie odniesli si velke batohy do uschovne nakupili jedlo a vyrazili. Mestecko El Chalten lezi uz v parku a tak nam stacil http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-582751.html El Calafate ist ein recht berlaufener Touristenhauptort von Patagonien. Ausgangspunkt zum berhmten Perito Moreno Gletscher. Wir quartierten uns im familiren La Loma Hotel ein. Am nchsten Tag fuhren wir die knapp 80 km zum Nationalpark los Glaciares. Stolze 100 Peso kostet der Eintritt. Die Argentinier zahlen weniger als die Hlfte und auch alle MercosurLnder entspricht rund dem Rest http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-564392.html We are back in Argentina which means more steak more red wine and more dulce de leche First stop was El Calafate which was a very touristy town geared solely it seemed to get people to the Perito Moreno glacier one of the few stable large glaciers in the world which advances 1.7 metres a day. This results in many carvings ice falling off the front which is spectacular to see. We had a t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-563958.html Leaving the southern climes of Ushuaia on a typical delayed AA flight being back on Terra Firma proper and in need of a good nights rest without the hammock effect was a great follow on from West Antarctica forever engrained in my head as a white icy kingdom which was largely barren of flora except mosses at Deception Island and immensely rich in birds and sea life. Southern Patagonia is simi http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-557347.html Thursday 28th October 2010Woken up by the doorbell at 7am we both looked at each other in horror and jumped out of bed. Thankfully we were organised for once and had packed the previous night. Joanne ran downstairs and pleaded for dos minutos in her best Spanish and luckily the driver waited Paulina bless her wrapped up some goodies in a doggy bag for breakfast and saw us on our way. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-553118.html