The glacier

The time in Puerto Natales - our last station in Chile - was beautiful, especially since we spent the last evening in a cocktail bar operated by two Australians. Very delicious homemade gin 🥃, great bar. But the next morning, the alarm clock rang at 6 o'clock, the suitcases had to be dragged down a narrow staircase once again, and off we went to the bus station. We took the bus to El Calafate, back to Argentina. Unfortunately, we seemed to have a very correct apprentice at our counter. In any case, the entry took twice as long as usual. We arrived with a two hour delay, but it didn't really matter. Time is not so important here.

Just like Puerto Natales, El Calafate is a place that thrives on having a natural wonder on its doorstep. From here, tours to the Perito Moreno Glacier depart. What can I say: it's just rocks and ice again, but it's simply amazing. The glacier extends about 30 km from the Patagonian ice field to Lake Argentino.

The glacier edge is about 70 meters high right in front of the visitor terraces, about 50 meters when approaching by ship. In recent years, the terraces have been built so that you can observe the glacier from various points. It's basically like a movie, just without a script. You listen to see if you hear a crack, and if you're lucky, you can still see the ice falling. The glacier calves off the long edge quite frequently. Most of the time, it's just small pieces of ice that fall into the lake with a loud noise. But we were lucky. Several large blocks fell right in front of our eyes! You can't really see that well in the photos, but we preferred to watch instead of taking pictures. It was absolutely impressive.

If you look closely, you can see that the breaking edge looks different in our first photo than in the last one ❄️❄️❄️