A day of bumming around town….. The history of El Calafate began in the first decades of the twentieth century. Originally, it was simply a sheltering place for wool traders. The town was officially founded in 1927 by the Argentinian government to … Continue reading →

MORE Ice Ice Baby! Visited ‘the Rivers of Ice Circuit’ off Punta Bandera, including the thousand year old Upsala and Spegazzini glaciers.  Beautiful start to the day travelling out of El Calafate and saw an amazing cloud formation, of which … Continue reading →

ICE, ICE BABY! On the Argentine side, 13 glaciers stem from the Patagonian ice cap and flow into the Argentino and Viedma lakes, including Perito Moreno, Upsala and Spegazzini (more about the latter 2 in the next post!). Glacier formation … Continue reading →