Argentina we hear you say?! Are you becoming greedy travellers and 10 countries not enough for one trip??!

Well yes, we could not resist the opportunity to nip over the border and into Argentina, by nip over we mean a 14 hour round trip to visit the famous Perito Moreno Glacier near the town of El Calafate in Argentinan Patagonia.

Peirto Moreno Glacier is a 97 square mile ice formation grinding its way down the Andes mountains and into Lago Argentino. The ice sheet is the third largest reserve of fresh water in the world and is 3 miles wide with an average height about water level of 70 metres (with another 100 metres below the lake) It is one of only a few glaciers that are growing and pushing into the lake, sometimes as much as 2 metres a day.

Our day began at 6:30am when our bus picked us up. Then about an hours drive to the Chilean border to leave the country, another hours drive through no-mans land brought us to the Argentina border. In we go to country number 11 and then travel for 4 more hours North to get to the town of El Calafate.

We stopped for a small break in the town and enjoyed a Calafate Ice Cream which was very tasty (The town is named after the fruit of the same name) and then headed off into Los Glaciers National Park to see the main attraction.

Our first view was from the road looking down over the Glacier and Lake, and there is no other way to descibe it other than a massive scary wall of advancing, creaking ice! It is hard to get your head around scale until you get up close and see the details, and also spot the small ant-like people hiking over the glacier in the distance.

We all jumped on a boat and went up for a closer look before walking along the raised walkways that run along the mainland edge where you get very close up to the glaciers edge (which they call a snout!)

While we were there enjoying the view, large chunks of ice, some as big as houses came crashing down from the face into the lake with an almighty crash, these large chunks became massive icebergs creating large waves along the lake, these ice burgs then floated off down the lake and became decent sized islands.

It was all so spellbinding that we could have stayed there all day just watching the Glacier slowly move but unfortunatly we had to get back to Chile, so off we drove for another 6 hours across the empty wilderness finally arriving back to our hostel in Puerto Natales just before 11pm, very tired but very happy travellers.

No more extra countries, we promise.