Leaving the Tierra del Fuego, we are in Patagonia and move a bit 'more' to the north.
Third flight, and the third time one of two pieces of luggage does not arrive (GP beats Apple 2-1)!
But now we're used to and expect no worries ....
first stop in El Chalten, a three-hour bus by APT., "Capital" of trekking in Patagonia, in the middle of a valley dominated by two among the most 'important Andean peaks, the Fitz Roy and Torre.
The thing to do here and 'only one: the legs and shoulders off the paths that lead up to the base of the mountains, where there are lakes formed by glaciers.
choose the 12-km, 6 hours drive to Lake Tower: The day seems bad, and then we start fitted as Toto 'e Peppino for Milan, but soon the clouds disappear and we will melt during the climb 20 degrees ... but 'at the end we can say we did it and give us the deserved rest!
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| that heat kills!! |
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| Fitz Roy 3410 mt. |
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| Goduria that ... |
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| one end and 'the glacier which creates the lake ... |
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| some brave to swim in the lake (3 degrees!) .. |
In the hostel we know John, cute 50 years old Verona (Act Gramsci, hates the league and has the shirt on April 25, ..., then someone who still saves those parts c 'and' ...!) and that 'given five months in South America to celebrate his retirement, and found Philip the Sicilian with whom we spend pleasant hours.
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| Apple and big John, both travel the world without knowing the language! |
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| GP Philip |
The next day we drive to El Calafate, famous for its proximity to the glacier most 'famous Patagonia, the Perito Moreno, which is' only one of many "arms" of the so-called Continental Hielo Patagonia (third ice field in the world)
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| map of the area |
choose to spend two days and we are forced to rely on local agencies for tours (tourist, and therefore expensive ...).
The first leads us in the morning by bus to the catwalk in front of the glacier, where you can 'see the front of the Perito in all its majesty', and the afternoon with a boat to take us on a mini glacier trekking crampons, with whiskey and chocolates at the end of walk.
The day after sailing Lago Argentino with mega catamaran with our name (Quo Vadis), which leads us in the face of all the glaciers in the area, a more 'beautiful than the other: impressive to see them from below!
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| that show .... whiskey with pure ice |
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| here and 'all biancazzurri .... ! |
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| grattachecca to go after .... |
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| sorry but what about my color on this white? |
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| Perito Moreno |
After two dinners prepared in tandem in the hostel (Apple pasta with tuna and boiled vegetables, sausages with onions GP), the last night in this village, which looks like a photocopy of a Swiss, all wooden houses with sloping roofs, we grant a Tenedor Libre (or, if magna flesh at will 'a fixed price, and Annam!)
Now we have a flight to Bariloche, we manage to get along with the luggage?
See the next episode and you'll know ...
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