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El Calafate and The World´s Third Largest Icefield
(Feb 08 '08)
El CalafateFebruary 8, 2008
(Amber)
After a quick and easy flight to El Calafate, which allowed us to avoid the 40-hour bus ride to the South, we arrived and were amazed that the hostel Matt ...
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El Calafate & Perito Moreno Glaciar
(Jan 15 '07)
El Calafate is quite a touristy town on the shores of Lago Argentino, developed due to it´s proximity to the Perito Moreno glaciar in the National Park Los Glaciares. We had struggled to get a bed ...
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Glaciers, trekking, and good food
(Mar 11 '07)
Once again I completely amaze myself. How you ask? Well, I had been counting down the days until Eddie would be in Argentina. He was to arrive around 9 o’clock in the morning on Saturday the 10th. ...
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Spent the night at a hostel in Lake Louise, 4 bunks in a dorm (very Shrewsbury school.....Stan 'fagged' for me, Archie for Sam), bit expensive for a bed for the night but ...
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The reason Franz Josef 'town' (it consists of two short streets) exists is because of the glacier, so there was little to do there but the glacier hike! We ...
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Franz Josef Glacier and Fox Glacier
(Aug 12 '07)
On route we made a stop at Ross. Once upon a time it was a busy place when lots of folks came to pan for gold and make their fortune. Some did . NZ's largest gold nugget was found here. All 2,772kg of ...
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El Calafate
(Feb 24 '08)
We had no problems getting to Calafate. Our hotel was very nice Cauquenes des Nimez, set near a nature reserve 15 mins walk from the centre, but very quiet and pretty plush. One thing about Calafate ...
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Rapid Arm Across The Chest Manouver!
(May 06 '07)
We arrived in ‘Franz Joseph’, home of the ‘Fox Glacier’, and one place we were looking most forward to. It was here that we had booked ourselves onto a helicopter ride that would take us to the peak ...
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Stop 8. Franz Josef Glacier
(May 08 '07)
"We also managed to save ourselves about $200 which is how much we would have been charged for some one to come with us."
More water
(Mar 20 '06)
A short bus trip down the road to Fox Glacier this morning.
We were meant to be doing a half day heli-hike today - helicopter ride to the top of the glacier, walk about a bit, and helicopter back ...
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glacier in Popular Destinations
- glacier in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
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- glacier in Hailuoguo Glacier Park, Sichuan
- glacier in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, Chile
- glacier in Haast, New Zealand
- glacier in Calafate, Santa Cruz
- glacier in Puerto Puyuhuapi, Los Lagos
- glacier in Gorak Shep, Nepal
- glacier in Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
- glacier in Invercargill, New Zealand
- glacier in Salzburg, Austria
- glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana
- glacier in South Island, New Zealand
- glacier in Cotopaxi, Ecuador
- glacier in Reykjavik, Iceland
- glacier in Mount Cook, New Zealand
- glacier in Punta Arenas, Chile
- glacier in El Chalten, Argentina
- glacier in Fox Glacier, New Zealand
- glacier in Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand
- glacier in Lijiang, China
- glacier in Jasper National Park, Alberta
- glacier in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
- glacier in Whitsunday Islands, Australia
- glacier in Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand
- glacier in El Calafate, Argentina
- glacier in Milford Sound, New Zealand
- glacier in Ushuaia, Argentina
- glacier in Bariloche, Argentina
- glacier in La Paz, Bolivia
- glacier in Christchurch, New Zealand
- glacier in Santiago, Chile
- glacier in Queenstown, New Zealand
- glacier in New Zealand
