Boat trip out to the glacier

El Calafate

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February 3rd 2015
After taking a relatively short flight (a little more than 2 hours) we arrived in the tourist town of El Calafate one of the entry points to Los Glaciares National Park. This national park was created in 1937 and declared a World Heritage Site thus hopefully preserving it for humanity for years to come. The park is host to 356 glaciers making this the 3rd biggest ice mass in the world after Antarc ... read more

South America » Argentina » Santa Cruz » El Calafate

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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