Go West

We have now been three days in El Calafate a small town in the middle of nowhere in Patagonia, between Pampa, sheep and wild cows. I have exchanged the surf shorts and flip flops with thermal underwear and ski socks as it is only a couple of degrees warm here. The air is cristal clear and very dry, a big change from Kihei and Buenos Aires.

Kerstin and I visited the famous Perito Moreno glacier yesterday and today we went to see the Uppsala glacier and on a boat trip on the huge Lago Argentino. The lake is so big and blue, our lago Moeckeln is just a little brown water hole compared to this one down here in Patagonia. The landscape is just breathtaking there are actually big ice junks swimming in the lake as if you are down in the Antarctica region, well we are close.
Unfortunately, I can not provide you with any pictures as the general internet speed connection in Calafate town (when working at all) is only 256KB. Impossible to upload pictures without waiting until your steak is ready, but if you check for the Perito Moreno glacier on google, you will find the details. Or wait until we are back with the fantastic photos.

Tomorrow we will take the bus to El Chalten, a five hours bus ride to an even smaller town, just at the entrance of the national park where you can find the Fitz Roy mountain area. We just heard that in this town there is no cash machine or exchang office, so we are pretty curious to find out what else we will miss there. For emergencies, we still have some Knorr soups with us.
Depending on the weather we will be hiking for the next three days in the Fitz Roy area. Probably Kersting will do some hikes on the glacier, while I have to get some rest.

Now we will go back to our youth hostel and cook some delicious pasta including a bottle of wine. Salut!

Take care!
Tanja