After leaving Chileand the Torres del Paine national park a 350km drive brought us to El Calafate. It is a really glimpsy touristic city and counts as the entrance to South Americas most famous glacier; the Perito Moreno glacier.
According to different sources it is the only glacier, which is not shrinking for the moment, but it has a steady state. The 50m high front wall is more or less at the same position already for several years, calving 100s of tons of ice into the „Lago Argentino“ every day. (moving 2meters per day)
There are several boat trips you can choose f rom and even a short hike on the glacier is available for the tourists. The „easy riders“ only walk the brand new platforms in front of the glacier.
By the way Perito Moreno is not the biggest glacier in the national park here. The Upsala glacier for example has a front wall, which is 80 meters high and almost 5kms wide.
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| Származási hely: El Calafate-Fitz Roy |
El Chalten
El Chalten is really far away from every other villages. If you go to the north, the next village is about 400km´s (Bajo Caracoles), if you go south El Calafate is about 350km. The village is only 24 years old and was founded, because of the climbers coming here to Cerro Torre and Mt. Fitz Roy the most difficult vertical walls to climb on earth. Usually it takes 4-5 days to reach the peak. The village is for real adventurers and has nice restaurants and all infrastructure...
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Further photos;
http://picasaweb.google.de/szaipandras/ElCalafateFitzRoy#
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