Moreno Glacier

El Calafate and the journey from hell

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August 19th 2006
We arrived in El Calafate and booked ourselves into the local hostel and arranged our trip for the next day to see Perito Moreno Glacier. El Calafate is quite small but seemed a cosy town be in apart from the numerous stray dogs that followed us around. There seemed to be a number of posh restaurants that would have been well within our budget but we felt that Bim would probably make the place ... read more

South America » Argentina » Santa Cruz » Perito Moreno Glacier

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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