Blogs from Los Glaciares National Park , Santa Cruz, Argentina, South America - page 6

Kdyz vam zacne byt Chilska Patagonie mala, musite prejet do Argentiny, kde si muzete uzivat jeji dalsi prirodni krasy. Musite malinko potrapit penezenku - zejmena v Argentinskem Spindlu - Calafate, pak jeste prekousnout davy turistu na ledovci ale jinak to stoji za videni! Vyjizdime z nasi Patagonske krizovatky Puerto Natales a Argentinskou autobusovou spolecnosti Cootra, za par minut uz vysedame na hranicich, vystupujeme z Chile a po dalsich par minutach zase vstupujeme do Argentiny. Vita nas cedule, ze Malviny jsou argentinske!!!, sjizdime dolu do mesta Rio Turbio, ktere je ve srovnani s Puerto Natales jako kdyz prejedete hranici z Nemecka do Cech, brazdime si to Argentiskou stepi, pozorujeme plamenaky, nandu pampove, lamy, neskutecnou oblohu s jeste neskutecnejsim zapadem slunce a s padajici tmou prijizdime do umele vytvoreneho mesta Calafate, tedy Argentinskeho Spindlu, kde se rocne ... read more

EL CALAFATE Patagonia. The land that time forgot. This is the land of glaciers, jagged mountains, free roaming horses, ice cold waterfalls, turquoise lakes, butterflies, and bright flowers. Tents adorn the landscape like mushrooms after a rain shower. If you're a geologist, photographer, mountain climber, or general outdoor enthusiast this is your Shangrila. Patagonia is one of the least densely populated areas on earth, which has it's pros and cons. On the one hand you can walk for hours without coming across another fellow biped, but because there's not as much infrastructure, the bus tickets are ridiculously expensive. It's fun to say you're at the bottom of the world but it was a nice surprise to see such scenery and feel that you have gotten more than your money's worth. El Calafate looks like Aspen, but ... read more

#Stop, collaborate and listen Ice is back with a brand new edition.....# etc etc! Enough of Vanilla Ice raps now! I travelled down to the south of Argentina to visit one of the highlights of my trip- the Perito Moreno Glacier. SO COOL!!!!!! I´d seen photos of it before I went, and they really don´t do it any justice. The glacier is 30km long and the faces are 60m high. It is so big! The glacier advances at 2m a day, and if you hang around on the viewing platforms watching, you can see chunks of ice fall off into the water. Very noisy! It was so beautiful to watch. Some parts are so white that it is nearly blinding when the sun reflects its light, and some parts look blue. The only problem in this ... read more

Hola que tal! In zuidelijk Patagonia liggen de grootste aaneengesloten continentale ijskappen buiten de polen: Campo de Hielo Norte (noordelijk ijsveld, 4200 km2, het kleinere ijsveld van de 2, gelegen aan de westkant van de Carretera Austral en volledig in Chili gelegen, zie vorige blog) en de Campo de Hielo Sur (zuidelijk ijsveld, 14200 km2, de grootste van de 2 en voor 80 % gelegen in Chile). Deze ijskappen, waarvan zo´n 200 gletsjers afstromen in de Pacifische oceaan en in de grote meren in Argentinie, hebben een landschap van fjorden en indrukwekkende bergketens gesmeed, die zo typisch zijn voor dit zuidelijk stuk Patagonia. We zijn verslaafd geraakt aan dit gebied dat we de laatste 2 weken niet weg geraakt zijn uit het noordelijk stukje van Nationaal Park Los Glaciares (Argentina). Begin maart kruisten we het door ... read more

Well, It's been a week since I returned I still a little hung over from my trip. Dang it was a long week. In fact, this past week seemed longer than my entire seventeen day trip. Anyways,.... Our trip started with a four hour flight down to El Calafate. El Calafate is a very touristy town with nice shops and restaurants. For our group it was really more a stopping point than a destination. It owes it popularity to it's proximity to Perito Moreno Glacier. This well renowned glacier was famous for being one of only two advancing glaciers on the planet. Well, it is no longer advancing and can only be classified as stable. (Insert malicious global warming comment here) Thirty meters tall and 30 km across, the one thing that stands out about Perito ... read more