Buenos Noches!
We've just had an amazing day visiting some glaciers near El Calafate. We went on a boat trip through a lake, sailing past icebergs and coming really close to towering glacier edges. We've visited glaciers in Iceland and New Zealand, but they weren't as impressive up close as these ones. The icebergs were great too and were incredibly blue - very beautiful. We took loads of photos (way too many probably) but can't upload them yet as the internet is painfully slow here.
We've got our next few days more or less mapped out. Tomorrow we visit the Perito Moreno glacier, which is one of the few in the world that is advancing rather than receding, and every now and then great chunks of it crash into the lake. On Tuesday we're getting a bus up to El Chalten to do some hiking among the mountains, before coming back here on Thursday and then heading down to the Torres Del Paine park in Chile on Friday. Luckily the weather hasn't turned cold yet, so hopefully we'll survive with our meagre winter weather gear!
El Calafate is a nice town and we're staying in a comfy hostel. We haven't managed to get into the whole South American "eat dinner at 10pm" routine, and are famished now so are heading out for (proably) another steak.
Bye!
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