El Calafate Travel Blogs

Here we are back in El Calafate and as it is Sunday, we can't book any bus tickets as the offices are all shut. Make the most of the cheap wine and Parrila tenedor libres then. Monday - have booked bus outta here. Leaving at 3am Tuesday to Rio Gallegos and then getting connecting bus to Comodoro …

Today we went to the Perito Moreno Glacier. It’s really beautiful. Some moments you can hear loud cracks followed by massive pieces of glacier falling with great power into the water. It’s so hard to see from a distance or from above how high this glacier really is.   We booked also a mi…

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Perito Merino Glacier is truly one of the fascinating sites of Patagonia.  One of the few "stable" glaciers on the planet, Perito Merino Glacier dwarfs even those that I had seen earlier on this journey.  And to experience walking on…

Well, a few dogs in the end, as it turned out. Let me explain... We were unsure what was to be done with our second and final full day in El Calafate. We had previously tried asking the assistants in the travel agencies what we could do, without success - in fact, the reaction we generally got was…

If the Disney Corporation ever need a new site for a resort in South America then they could do a lot worse than just buying up Calafate wholesale. They wouldn't need to do much development work to turn this place into Mickey's Magical Moreno Glaciar Resort. I imagine many visitors a…

Although I've been to Antarctica (2004), I've to say that visiting Los Glaciares was a great experience!!!

El  Calafate is a small but very touristy town which is only 80km from the very famous Moreno Glacier (which was the main reason for crossing into Argentina at this point). The glacier was very cool (no pun intended), we went on a hike on the ice (wth ´´cramp-ons´´ attached to boots to a…

Our visit to El Calafate and the nearby Parque Nacional Los Glaciares was one of the highlights of our trip to Argentina. It is difficult to find words to describe the beauty of the place. Most people who visit here, limit their visit to the best-known of the glaciers, Perito Moreno. But, whi…

After 7 years of dating, Tristan asked the question and Arlene said....  YES.  Tristan saw pictures of the Moreno Glacier in a photo travel book and decided (drunkenly) that that was where he was going to propose.  A year later and after 9 months of traveling together, we were both …

Started my trip in my hometown Cordoba. Took a 10 hr bus to Mendoza, well known for its great variety of wine, specially Malbec; from there a 12 hr bus to Bariloche. Then flew to the Glaciers National Park in Calafate. Couldnt get an airline ticket to The Southern most city in the world, Ushuaia, so I took another bus for 18 hrs to get there. NOT RECOMENDED! From there, back to Calafate, back to Buenos Aires for a day to visit some friends and back to Cordoba.

It's about Argentina, started in Buenos Aires, then Peninsulda Valdes, El Calafate, Torres del Paine in Chili. Then we went to the most southern city of the world, Ushuaia. Our last stop was a visit to the spectacular Iguazu falls at the border of Argentina and Brasil.

I have become very pre-ocupied with the stray dog situation, and feel they deserve there own entry. The strays of El calafate seem to have set corners, that they own and lord it up over any other dog or person who infringes their Patch. The St Bernard was agin holding prime sleeping space outside …

Today I did the Big Ice tour, run by the company Hielo y Aventura.  The day began at 5:50am when I woke up sans alarm - probably subconsciously I was afraid I´d oversleep.  I showered and packed up.  (The night before, I had removed everything from my pack, and repacked it with on…

I´m spending around 1 year in South America, I had an amazing time. Enjoy my pictures, I'd do it again.

 I had arrived solo by plane from Bariloche on my b-day in the afternoon.  In Bariloche, I had left friends and comfprt and my home, at least it felt that way after 5+ weeks.  It was at first a long, hectic, and unpleasant day.  Nothing out of the ordinary, just t…