Cabalgatas del glaciers is located inside the Los Glaciars national park and is reached after an hour on gravel roads which didn’t deter our “talking a million miles an hour” remise driver. The multi-lingual fellow passenger, Sonya from Spain (who I am convinced is Dee’s doppelgänger), translated a few things…
South America
so, where did you eat lunch today?
/ 19/11/2012I had a picture on my wall at work for a while of a very special place. Gill and I found pictures of our dream destinations and put a window frame around them to give us a view at work instead of brilliant beige. Mine was a picture of the…
mountain high
/ 18/11/2012Made it to El Calafate in Santa Cruz – leaving behind the seemingly endless broad flat expanse of the Chubut province for the mountains, huge lakes and glaciers of the south. El Calafate reminds me of places like Jasper and Banff. My home for the next 3 nights – Calafate…
i don’t have a drinking problemo…do I?
/ 17/11/2012The trouble is the local beers here are 970ml (and only AU$2 at the supermercado, YES!), but don’t fit in my cooler…the free Malbec from Say Hueque as a welcome gift did fit…except it doesn’t need a cooler. Surely somewhere along the trail I’ll find a beer of a size…
best. day.
/ 17/11/2012Just around the southern point of Puerto Madryn, after an easy 15-20mins boat ride lives a colony of sea lions. Raucous bulls, cows and pups lounge on the lower cliffs and share the space with numerous sea birds. And I got in the water with them. Es muy fantastico! Before…