glacier perito moreno

glacier perito moreno

okay, i have a few minutes, so i´ll start "small" (except the glacier thing is huuuuge).

first you deserve a bit more detail on bariloche... otherwise alex will totally be beating me on this blog-writing thing.

we found a cool hostel in bariloche, where the owners invited us to a delicious home made pizza dinner and red wine evening. we visited the kingdom of chocolate. we drove 1.5h to a place with an amazing national park and instead wandered around the aforementioned pond - using the forest as a playground and being followed by a dog which we nicknamed platano (banana). we also visited a look-out point giving us the most astounding view over the lakes and mountains of bariloche.

bariloche is a pretty, rich, expensive, touristy and very enjoyable-to-walk-around city.

okay, enough on that.

leaving bariloche we entered a steak and empanada selling store, and asked for 36 empanadas to let the three of us (leaving sm and monica behind to go to buenos aires) survive our impending 27 hours of bus ride. the woman looked at us like we were stupid, but we ended up scraping together 24 empanadas in total.

we got to the bus just on time, arrived in rio gallegos the evening of the next day and got straight on another 3h bus to el calafate. we arrived late but actually managed to find our campsite in the dark, and set up the tent. we awoke to a disheartening rain, rented a car and drove the 80km to the glacier. and were flabbergasted. its HUGE and beautiful and white and icey blue and amazing and it MOVES! 2m in the center per day, and 40cm on the edge. the result of that is that we sat there for 5 hours and saw about four million chunks falling off dramatically and loudly into the lake surrounding the glacier. craaaazy.

we camped illegally in the park so that we wouldnt waste our free kilometers, and nearly got freizures from the cold that night (freizure: freezing seizure). the next morning we breakfasted overlooking the amaaaazing fantastic glacier again. yay!

back in el calafate we booked a book to puerto natales and there our hiking adventure began. blog entry is over. and lets see if i can get another one in before charles takes over the computer.