El Calafate - National Park Los Glaciares

Whenever yo visit a place for the first time you have expectations. Specially when you plan ahead and you get inundated with other people's images on the web [as I did] you set up really high standards of what would be your own experience. Glacier Perito Moreno is the 'must do' stop [at least for me] in any Patagonia journey. The glacier landscape blew me off in a way I was not expecting at all. The name of the town that hosts you before getting into the National Park, El Calafate, is due to a little fruit common in the region. Glacier Perito Moreno is the largest glacier one can visit within the Patagonia national parks circuit.

Glaciers have an interesting structure and an amazing geological history and, as we might know, they serve as a 'thermometer' of what we humans are causing with global warming. I could go on and on about the ecological relevance of these formations but after my visit, they should be preserved, studied and taken care of just because they are insanely beautiful.



El Calafate town, architecture


El Calafate town, sidewalk


El Calafate town, towards the bus station


El Calafate town, nice food next to my hostel


On our way to National Park Los Glaciares


Getting closer to Glacier Perito Moreno @ National Park Los Glaciares


Hiking to the glacier after boat ride


Glacier Perito Moreno


Real landscape and hyper-real landscape


Panoramic of Glacier Perito Moreno


Glacier Perito Moreno


Glacier Perito Moreno


Glacier Perito Moreno


Glacier Perito Moreno hitting ground


Glacier Perito Moreno with watercolor sky


Glacier Perito Moreno


Glacier Perito Moreno


YO, overwhelmed


Chocolate @ bus sation before leaving El Calafate