Glacier Grande

El Calafate & El Chaltén - El Parque Nacional Los Glaciares

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April 28th 2008
We left El Bolson with heavy hearts as we had really taken to the place, but we headed back on the road with our next destination in mind, El Calafate, and Los Glaciares National Park, yippee! However to get there we had to endure one of our longest and bumpiest journeys so far, 46 hours down the infamous Routa 40, the longest road in Argentina, which goes from south to north, more than 5000 k ... 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