Ana_El Calafate

This is our last day in El Calafate.We're headed to Bariloche. We're still in the Patagonia area. We're still pretty south in Argentina.

This town is where you can access the many glaciars in the area. One of the most popular glaciar is Perito Moreno, which we experienced the magnitude yesterday. Breathtaking to see this huge piece of ice. It looks like mountains of ice. First you can walk down a path in the Glaciar Park and view from different points the front of the glaciar where pieces fall off. You can hear the cracking of the ice which is so loud. Louder is when actual pieces of ice fall off. We experienced it like three times. Massive pieces of ice plunging into water. The height of top of the glacier is 50m high. HUGE. After starring at the ice for two hours then we went to get on a boat that will takes us to the other side where we could hike on top of the glaciar. Again I'm so glad we did this too. We put on the ice shoes and walked around for two hours. From far away the ice looked fluffy. Being on it is more slushy ice.

We had three guides walking along with us. It looked like fantasyland, walking on ice and all you saw was ice everywhere. I mean white mountains of ice with beautiful hills and cracks were water travel through down to the lake. Coming down was interesting. It't not like normal hiking, you had to walk with you feet forward with knees bent and back straight. Instead of coming down side ways. Thank goodness the guides helped me down. They kept saying you can smile now. I can only imagine my big eyes looking at the mountain of ice as I walked down. But I made no problem. Right before we finished the hiked at the bottom they had whiskey and chocolate for us. Pretty cool. They used the ice of the glaciar to make the drinks. Although I'm not a fan of whiskey on the rocks. That thing was strong I felt I grew some chest hairs. I didn't finished it.

I'm so glad we're doing some of the tours. Although it's not cheap at times but the experience is priceless. So far after each tour we have no regrets. I've never seen a glaciar of that size, let alone walked on it for two hours. AMAZING! =)