El Calafate is a small and very very touristic place so I have decided to spend here just two nights for visiting the famous Perito Moreno glacier. I have got here by known Ruta 40, which is very long and... very empty, when considering the traffic on it and the surrounding landscapes. Later I am planning to follow Ruta 40 (like Che :)) to get to Esquel, Bolson, Bariloche, and then Mendoza. Later I am planning to go to Santiago de Chile and fly to Rapa Nui, Easter Island. It is very very far away (almost 4000 km from chilenian coast) and very very expensive, but it is my dream to go there, so I will do my best...
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In Puerto natales I have bough paintings for my new kitchen in my not yet existing flat. Yes, they are quite big and they are quite heavy, painted on pressed wood, and yes I have to carry them since now wherever I go! |
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Patagonian clouds, east from Ruta 40 |
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Patagonian clouds can be square, too |
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A surprising for me sign of Christmas on Araucaria |
On the way to Los Glaciares
Los Glaciares National Park covers the area of 600 000 hectares in the SW of the province of the Santa Cruz, in Argentina. On the way to the Park we saw a huge group of Andean condors, circling over our heads...
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| It is rare to see so many Andeanian condors at once. |
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| El Condor pasa |
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| Two black sheeps, maybe they are twins? |
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| My dream job, at least for some time |
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| Lamb is one of patagonian specialities... |
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| ... for steaks of XXXXXXXXL size |
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| Who said that Homo sapiens is the only one to do philosophy? |
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| Just go, go, go... and go! |
I went to Los Glaciares National Park today, 22. December, to admire the Perito Moreno glacier, with a surface as big as Buenos Aires: the glacier is 30 km long with 5 km long front and reaching 60 to 70 m hight.
It moves forward up to 1,5 m per day, causing sometimes building-sized icebergs to calve from it´s face. Glaciar Moreno is considered as stable. The calfs are falling down directly into 1600 square kilometers big Lago Argentino, the largest single body of water in Argentina.
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