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finally a bit of adventure for jamie
(Apr 09 '07)
"glaciers are beautiful even in the rain and if you can´t see the mountains it is easier to pretend you are in the antarctic"
El Calafate and Perito Moreno Glaciar
(Jan 12 '07)
Got into El Calafate and went straight to our hostel we had booked in advance. Calafate was much more to our liking, similar to Bariloche in that it is situated on a blue lake with the accompanying ...
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The funny thing about being in this region is that you would be travelling on the bus for hours without seeing a single development in the land (all plains and desert-looking ...
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In the morning, we arrive at the huge glacier -- 60m high, 3km wide
and 16km long. Sometimes you can hear the cracking of the ice and see
the waves it creates ...
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Patagonia
(Mar 01 '07)
Wow! It is going to be hard to describe the things that we have seen and done in Patagonia, and our story may be better described through the photos, but we will do our best to give an overview of ...
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Tip of the iceburg
(Nov 28 '03)
For only the second time on this entire trip, we received a personal airport welcome. (The first was Stuart who met us at the gate in Sydney.) A big welcome sign awaited us at the El Calafate airport ...
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Perito Moreno
(Jun 18 '07)
I've covered a lot of ground since I last wrote- I am now dispatching from Ushuaia, Argentina, the "end of the world". More on that later, first let me tell you about Argentina and Perito Moreno.
I ...
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Well a lot of travelling and crossing borders from Ushuaia and here I am in El Calafate for 1 day!!! Arrived in the hostel at 2am and ...
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Perito Moreno Glacier
(Nov 19 '07)
One of the highlights of this trip was our visit to the Perito Moreno glacier. It´s one of the largest glaciers here in Argentina with a height of about 60m and a 5km front. We took a tour bus to the ...
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El Calafate and Perito Moreno Glacier..
(Apr 02 '07)
We flew from BA to El Calafate and were informed by our hostel that is was actually a public holiday in Argentina, when asked why we were told "they won some war or something...". Upon arrival at the ...
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El Calafate - Staring at ice for a while
(Apr 04 '08)
"3 hrs may seem like a long time to stare at a glacier but it is strangley mesmerizing waiting for the next chunk to fall off"
Argentina broke us. Not in the sense that is took us over its knee or anything, just in the sense that we have much less money than we would love to to sustain the superb ...
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Another day in the icy wonderland that is Parque Nacional Los Glacieres.
We had one more tour booked, to visit the Perito Moreno Glacier. ...
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