Glorious Glaciers - Trekking in Patagonia
March 8th 2010 I rumbled over Ruta 40, following the Andes spine down into Patagonia from the Lake District. The bus ride from Bariloche to El Chalten took almost 30 hours, which was exhausting. The scenery along the way was spectacularly barren and remote. There was not a cloud in the sky as the bus chugged past Estancias (farms), roaming llamas and ostriches. Desert fields of dust and sprouting dry grass stret
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