El Calafate

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Argentina: El Calafate (Perito Moreno Glacier)

The drive from Chalten to El Calafate fortunately only lasted 4 hours. El Calafate is the gateway to the Southern part of the Parque Nacional los Glaciares and most tourists,...

Patagonia

Above the clouds of Patagonia... Arequipa, 29.12.: 2 bus rides, 2 flights and a total of 24 hours separated us from Punta Arenas, the southernmost city of Chile. A border...

Argentina, here we come! El Calafate

1.2. To the border Back in the room after breakfast, we contact the car rental company. We don't know what to do next and even consider flying to Panama earlier......

Route 40 strikes

We set off for El Calafate on Lake Argentina on Tuesday, 11.02. Of the planned 335 km, 65 km are gravel roads. These gravel roads can be imagined as follows. There are ruts from...

21/10/19 Via Buenos Aires to El Calafate, Argentina Day 2

The flight to Buenos Aires was very relaxed, we slept well and covered over 11,000 km in no time. Total chaos at the airport in Buenos Aires. We stood in...

24.10.19 From El Chaltén to El Calafate Argentina Day 5

Back from El Chaltén to El Calafate Unfortunately, we have to leave El Chaltén today already. Our upgrade. We have to drive the same way back, as there is only one road to El...

El Calafate

On Thursday morning, we were picked up by the Interpol colleagues (the PSC on the Interpol vests stands for Policia Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz is the provincial capital) at 8 am for...

El Calafate and the Perito Moreno Glacier

After the Torres del Paine National Park, the road in Chile is interrupted by a huge national park, so there are two more ways to get north, by ferry through the Chilean fjords...

'You never know about the weather in Patagonia'

Tag 119 Now we are in the south of Argentina, in El Calafate. We were here a few days ago, just for one night. But then we went directly to El Chaltén, which is two hours north...

Day 14 - El Calafate

For once, we didn't have a real assignment for today and decided to sleep in. Theoretically, we could have driven about three hours to El Chalten to visit Mount Fitz Roy, which...

Tag 12 - Puerto Natales/El Calafate

The alarm clock rang way too early again and woke us up at 6:00 a.m. Today we had a five-hour drive to El Calafate in Argentina. We had a quick breakfast and quickly went to the...

2nd Day - Laguna Nimez Evening Walk

After the highlight of the glacier, we walked the 3km through Laguna Nimez, which was already a challenge for Lea, but she managed it very well, there was a bench every few...

Hope? on 12/30/19:

Today we made our way to Argentina. The country welcomes us with a dilapidated-looking border post. We continue towards La Esperanza (which translates to 'Hope'), as there is...

6th Day trip back to El Calafate and return flight to BA

Today we headed back to El Calafate, where we had dinner and then boarded the flight to Buenos Aires...a beautiful experience came to an end with a stunning sunset...

El Calafate and El Chaltén (28.1.-2.2.22)- Day 1 Flight and Laguna Nimez

Hello everyone, today we flew to El Calafate and visited Laguna Nimez right away. We had a delicious meal with a great view at a nice little restaurant. The temperatures are...

09.03.23

On the bus to Argentina