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The Calafate flower

Perito Moreno and El Calafate

March 13th 2008
Fresh from finishing the W trek on Monday afternoon (and happy to have managed to shower and clean some clothes before leaving), I bid farewell to Chile and left for El Calafate, Argentina at 7am on Tuesday morning. El Calafate is really just a base for trips out to see the glacier, Perito Moreno, which until recently was one of the world's last advancing glaciers. Unfortunately global warming ... read more
South America » Argentina » Santa Cruz » Perito Moreno Glacier

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 an... ... read more
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