Travel Experiences from El Calafate

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Wineries and Glaciers
February 28, 2010 - El Calafate, Argentina
Hey crew, Just a quick one this time because we have a nice bottle of Torrentes and some home-made chocolates waiting for us. We’ve just put up another bunch of photos (in the ‘Outback Northwest Argentina’ album) from our cycling around the wineries adventures (aka getting slowly pickled on the back of a tandem bike). We’re about to leave on a 4-day trek in and amongst the Patagonian glaciers of southern Chile. Our two friends that we made during the Inca Trail trek have met...
By Toni and Paul in South America

El Calafate
October 20, 2009 - El Calafate, Argentina
El Calafate AgainWe arrived back around 8pm (from El Chalten) and went straight back to the hostel for 2 nights more. El Calafate as a town is very very cute. There are heaps of tourist things to do but just walking around the town is worth at least half a day.  It really feels like being in a ski town with chalet looking buildings everywhere - all overlooking a beautiful lake.   The next day we took a tour to Glaciar Perito Moreno.  It is only a couple of hours away from town and the...
By Tanya & Murray in Tanya & Murray's South America Extravaganza

El Calafate
October 18, 2009 - El Calafate, Argentina
We had to do an overnight trip to Rio Gallegos and then onto El Calafate.  It was really weird as heaps of travellers have told us they had decided to stay in Rio Gallegos ....... until they arrived (and got a bus straight out again!!! Great tourism plug)...  When we got close to the town the bus driver stopped at a police station on the outskirts of town and called out for busses connecting to El Calafate. We had not booked any tickets for the ongoing journey yet, so in a very basic...
By Tanya & Murray in Tanya & Murray's South America Extravaganza

3) El Calafate - Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
April 17, 2009 - El Calafate, Argentina
Moving on to the south of the country we took a flight to El Calafate, the tourist centre for the National Park of the Glaciers. The town itself is not very attractive and has a strange feel to it. As it is the low season right now, there are hardly any people in the streets and some of the resaurants are completely empty. Everything is very expensive and the weather is unpredictable here. Leaving the town and driving towards the Glaciers however the landscape is breathtaking! Our first trip...
By Ian & Gabi in South & Central America 2009

Ice in a desert - El Calafate (10-12 Feb)
February 12, 2009 - El Calafate, Argentina
My usual complete misconceptions about a place I am visiting continued when I arrived in the relative desert of El Calafate in Argentina. For some reason I decided since I was visiting Patagonia it would rain a lot and be covered in water and plants. All of that rain, ice, forests and crazy weather does exist, but it is about 80km west of El Calafate at the Perito Moreno glacier. This glacier is the main reason that the crazy tourist mecca of El Calafate exists and the reason I arrived into...
By Tanya in I live to travel

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Not a bad view in front :)

TK, Pinni, Pacharo and Surgas, the farting four

TK and Surgas, the farting horse

Pinni and Pacharo

We win at glaciers

 

Just the sinkhole

TK and a sinkhole

Oh dear, this glacier is apparently female

Amazing ice formations

A nice spot for lunch

 

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