After a lazy morning and taking in the last of this scenic town, we sadly left El Chalten, but not before savouring a ast coffee (espresso) at Mathilda's (best coffee in town)! After a 3 hour exceedingly scenic bus ride we arrived at El Calafate. El Calafate, even though relatively speaking too is a small town, in comparison to El Chalten it seemed huge! It is also surrounded by mountains, but is not as in one's face as in El Chalten and doesn't seem to have th...

An half hour bus ride and an hours boat ride from El Chalten brought us to Glacier Viedna, one of the largest glaciers in South America. As this was my first time on a glacier I expected a flat ice surface, similar to an ice rink. Was I pleasantly surprised when I saw, what I can best describe as, "ice waves" with blue colouring at places. The blue apparently appears where oxygen is trapped. There were also many holes in the ice caused by air pockets. We also saw...

During the night I thought our cabin was going to take off. I even prayed for protection thinking a hurricane may be coming our way. Apparently this is normal however and known as the Pategonian wind. My two nutter travel buddies decided to go on an 6 hour trek in the gail-force winds and rain. I however being the sane one in the group, decided on a rest day. I explored the town of el Chalten, savoured some local food and drink and hung out with some locals in...

We met a rondom German girl on the way to El Chalten who joined us on our trek. Over every hill and around every turn I was amazed at the scenery. The landscape was majestic and the river that ran through this area from the glacier lagoon had a milky blue shine to it. After over 3 hours we reached the Laguna Torre, our end destination. This was awesome, the glacier was hanging off the cliff of the mountain and the lagoon looked like it formed a desert beach on...

I don't know how the contents of my bag keeps increasing after a few days when everything needs to go back in! Well thankfully I got everything to fit again and the taxi picked us up for the Aeroparque Airport. We were rather relieved that we finally found the gate as apparently it was on the board but then dropped off leaving us with no flight to reference the gate number. After a 3 hour comforatable flight we arrived in El Calafate and within 30 min were on a ...