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Patagonia I love you
El Calafate I flew into El Calafate – a small town around 3,000 km’s south from Buenos Aires, which is the gateway to Patagonia. Looking out the plane window as you descend you see gorgeous blue turquoise water with smaller streams running off into the distance. This is Lake Argentina on whose shores El Calafate was built. The airport feels new-ish and there are some great maps in the baggage claim area showing those who perhaps have not done enough pre-study of the area exactly where you are and what is around you – highlighting distances between the towns in hours and km’s. This is quite interesting and I am…
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Patagonia – Trekking 1
El Chalten – Trek 1 I headed off next to El Chalten, a 200km bus ride away from El Calafate. It is here that world renowned walks are located. The bus is an older one that has a really annoying clicking sound (like an indicator) that is on the whole time, not sure what it was but after about an hour into the 3 hour drive, I put my ears in and listened to music to drown it out. The road trip Despite the volume of clouds in the sky some more ominous than others there are holes dotted here and there allowing the still fighting light to pierce the…
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