SOUTH PATAGONIA –EL CALAFATE: Glacier “Perito Moreno” & lakes

For nearly one hundred years Patagonia has been homeland of rugged sheep farmers whose lonely lives are the history of hardships endured in the vast country of southern Argentina. The great Andes range creeps gradually close as it approaches the straits of Magellan and Patagonia becomes a spectacle of towering mountains, foaming rivers, growing glaciers and gentle creeks. There is nothing more exciting and humiliating than nature seen in their marvellous wild distant country. All comfortably seen and experienced around Lago Argentino. 

The town of Calafate centres the drives and lake crossings, the visits of the Moreno Glacier which uniquely grows, cracks and tumbles into the splashing lake; to the Upsala and Onelli glaciers…