Blogs from Perito Moreno Glacier, Santa Cruz, Argentina, South America - page 8

Montag - der letzte Tag unseres Trips. Und mal wieder war eine 6-stündige Busfahrt angesagt.. 5 Stunden nach El Calafate und dann noch ma ne Stunde zum National Park "Los Glaciares".. An der Grenze kann man mal wieder erkennen, dass sich die Chilenen und die Argentinier nicht besonders mögen.. An der Chilenischen Grenze reist man aus und 5 min später, schätzungsweise 10km weiter, ist dann die Argentinische Grenze, wo man dann einreist.. Wem das Land dazwischen gehört konnten wir nicht so ganz herausfinden.. Aber außer plattes Land gibts da sowieso nichts. Jeder normale Mensch würde sich an den Kopf fassen und sagen, dass es total bescheuert ist 6 Stunden Bus zu fahren um 2 Stunden einen Gletscher zu bewundern und anschließend wieder 6 Stunden zurück zu fahren.. Aber ich kann mal wieder nur sagen, es hat ... read more

Having left Puerto Madryn, we had a 14 hour bus trip down to Rio Gallegos, where we had to change buses and take another 5 hour trip across the country to El Calafate. That´s a whole lot of time in buses!! In Puerto Madryn we thought we´d be super efficient and pre-book our hostel in El Calafate through the hostel we stayed in. However, on arrival at the "confirmed" accommodation we discovered there was no booking and the hostel was full! This wasn´t greatly received by 2 very weary travellers, especially as we´d paid for the first night in advance and had no way of getting our money back. We´d also bought Hostelling International cards so as to get cheaper accommodation - but it looked like it was gonna cost us a whole heap more ... read more

A thunderous sound like a gunshot reverberated through my body. I looked down at my feet expecting the ground to open up at any moment and swallow me into its icy depths. I carefully took another step. Gingerly pushing my crampioned foot into the ice praying it didn´t give way. It held. Woohoo. I took another more confident step and looked up towards the lake and the mountains in the distance. We were ice trekking on the Perito Moreno Glacier and it was quite possibly one of the most exciting things I have ever done. It was cold but the sun was shining, the sky was blue and no sign of rain. All around us was brilliant white ice. The undulating folds of the glacier were home to some spectacular crevices which appeared blue and ... read more

Hey, Just got back from my day tour to Moreno glacier. That´s truly an amazing sight. By some crazy geographical coincidence a glacier that ends within about 20m of a penisular that you can view from. And plus there´s bits of ice cracking off noisily all the time - a real photographers dream. Well it was a beautiful day out there, till the last hour when the rain came... I´m going to post some photos asap, but alas I failed to get the classic iceberg falling off the glacier shot - typical as soon as your backs turned for a second they fall,,, and then you´re there for an hour camera at the ready and nothing happens! Anyway this morning I said goodbye to my travel companions since Chalten, Ed aka the Mong from UK and ... read more

....written by Andrew We're finally heading for Patagonia! I'd been dreaming about this place since the start of our planning. The word patagonia has always brought up thoughts of mountain landscapes in a far off place. I didn't actually know much of anything about it, as I had never thought that I would be able to come here myself. I always pictured it as an innacessible, vast and treacherous landscape that was the realm of serious mountaineers. I was partly right....it is vast, beautiful and mountainous, but it's also easy to get to, and quite accessible for us lowly hikers! Our tendency to plan at the very last minute caught up to us for the first time in the small town of Rio Gallegos, on the southern Atlantic coast. Our flight from Buenos Aires landed at ... read more