Los Glaciares NP

And on and on we went… from southern Chile to southern Argentina.
Destination: Los Glaciares National Park.
Home of the famous Perito Moreno glacier (around the city of El Calafate) and the extremely hard to ascend El Fitz Roy mountain (around the city/village of El Chalten).

To cut a long story short:
1. The people in Argentine Patagonia are as nice as the people in Chilean Patagonia.

2. The wind in Argentine Patagonia is just as hard as the wind in Chilean Patagonia.

3. Trekking (we did the so called BigIce – 4 hours) on the Perito Moreno glacier was absolutely fabulous. Especially the part where John lost his footing, fell down and slid into a pool of glacier water

 

4. Trekking in Los Glaciares NP in the area of El Chalten was also perfect. Three full days of beautiful weather, loads of glaciers and glacier lakes and after a sneak peak of El Fitz Roy on our first day, we were awarded with the full monty on the our third day of hiking.

 

 

 Our next stop in Argentine Patagonia will be San Carlos de Bariloche, which is situated in the famous so called Lake district. After a couple of days there we will take a 2 day boat/bus trip to cross over to the Chilean side of the Lake district and from there go to Puerto Montt.

But in order to get to San Carlos de Bariloche first we will travel by bus on the even more famous Ruta 40. A 2-day bus journey.

More photos of Los Glaciares NP: http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_dude_in/sets/72157612853492665/

John´s blogpost: http://www.oldenhuizing.com/2009/01/30/los-glaciares-national-park/

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