3 days in Argentina
Well I wanted to see the most talked about glacier on the travellers network so I´ve popped across the Chile/Argentine border to see the Moreno glacier at El Calafate before popping back to Chile to catch the slow boat to civilisation in Chile ie Puerto Montt where you can actually travel overland up to Santiago by bus. Where I´ve been in the south of Chile (Punta Areas and Puerto Natales) you can only get to Puerto Montt by a 4 day boat trip or by going through Argentina). I think a bit of enforced solitude is in order and some more pain is in order so I´m doing the boat trip through the Chilean fjords and past glaciers, and though 8-12m high waves!
Back to the glaciers, absolutely gorgeous and very active but I´ve seen the same glacier twice in the same day. I arrived back at the hostel in the evening after booking a day trip to the glacier the next day to find a group about to do an impromptu evening trip to the glacier (sneaking in the back door) to see the Moreno glacier under a full moon. We left at 10pm, got back at 4am then I got the 8am tour bus to go back to the glacier (2hrs journey one way) to see it in daylight.
Full moon trip - invigorating as it was so cold, slippery but very ethereal (??). Whilst you couldn´t see the colours in the glacier you could see all the detail and the amount of thunderous sounds from crashing ice within the field echoed around the mountains. Under a full moon the glacier was various different shades of black and white and was gorgeous.
Daytime trip - amazing blue colours in the ice and I was lucky enough to see a section fall into the lake. The amount of people there on the viewing platforms meant we couldn´t hear as much thunder as we could during the nightime but there was a lot more visible activity during the day.
The next day (with a hangover from an all you can eat meat buffet with some Argentinians and Oliver) oh and beer, then off for a full day cold lake trip seeing 3 gorgeous glaciers and ice bergs floating in the lakes glowing blue - lovely, but cold!
Back to the glaciers, absolutely gorgeous and very active but I´ve seen the same glacier twice in the same day. I arrived back at the hostel in the evening after booking a day trip to the glacier the next day to find a group about to do an impromptu evening trip to the glacier (sneaking in the back door) to see the Moreno glacier under a full moon. We left at 10pm, got back at 4am then I got the 8am tour bus to go back to the glacier (2hrs journey one way) to see it in daylight.
Full moon trip - invigorating as it was so cold, slippery but very ethereal (??). Whilst you couldn´t see the colours in the glacier you could see all the detail and the amount of thunderous sounds from crashing ice within the field echoed around the mountains. Under a full moon the glacier was various different shades of black and white and was gorgeous.
Daytime trip - amazing blue colours in the ice and I was lucky enough to see a section fall into the lake. The amount of people there on the viewing platforms meant we couldn´t hear as much thunder as we could during the nightime but there was a lot more visible activity during the day.
The next day (with a hangover from an all you can eat meat buffet with some Argentinians and Oliver) oh and beer, then off for a full day cold lake trip seeing 3 gorgeous glaciers and ice bergs floating in the lakes glowing blue - lovely, but cold!
posted by boozysoozy at
4:38 PM
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Hi there,
hope the trip is still going well...
technical question: how do you get two pics to sit one next to each other on your page?? mine always go crooked...
thanks! :)
keep smiling and enjoying the sights!!
Mannie Frogette!
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