a glacial stream

hiking in the glaciar national park

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April 3rd 2006
after ushuaia, headed north to patagonia, made friends with a couple british chaps (ben and ross) in calafate and we promptly left that overpriced, touristy town for el chalten (via 5hr bus ride over unpaved road), a little nothing of town (one dirt road) at the southern entrance to the glaciar national park. (one of the things i love about argentina is that for years a combination of overvalued ... 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