El Calafate - Perito Moreno

One of the highlights of Patagonia (if not, The highlight). Amazing experience.

Last week, we travelled from Puerto Madryn to El Calafate. The bus ride took 24 hours and we only had semi-cama (maybe we have got used to the luxurious buses in the north of Argentina).

We took a trekking tour to the "Perito Moreno" glaciar.

Early in the morning, a bus took us to the port where we could cross over to the glaciar by boat.

From there, we could already see the Perito Moreno glaciar.

Once we crossed to the other side, the tour guide took us to a shelter and we have got all the explanations about the glaciar.

We then got the cramptons on our shoes and we have initiated our trek.

First of all, we were explained how to walk on the ice with the cramptons.

It was a great experience and amazing feeling to do it.


The trek duration was around 2 hours.

At the end of the trek, there was a surprise which we will not reveal here, because some of you may want to do this trek. But, ok, because you must be curious about it, we'll reveal it.

They have a table with wisky and they serve "on the rocks - the ice of the glaciar". And, we have also drunk water straight from the glaciar - the most fresh and pure.

After the ice trekking, we went to the "view points or balconies" to watch the glaciar from different angles.

It was also very interesting and sometimes we could hear and see the ice breaking or ruptures.