So I passed by a glacier the other day…
Thursday, January 24th, 2008The 5th of January 2008 was the day I became an environmental nut. No more plane rides or electricity for me!
We visited the Perito Moreno Glacier down in El Calafate, very southern Argentina. I had extremely high hopes for this because getting there wasn’t quite the highlight of my trip so far. First, we bade Christian farewell as he went off back to Nicaragua to do some more work. Then we headed to the bus station, stayed right where the bus was supposed to leave from but somehow missed it. Little bugger left from a different platform. Luckily the owner was a nice guy who packed 6 of us who were in the same boat into taxis to catch the bus. Got on to meet some angry heads. Seems they didn’t like waiting for the stupid tourists who missed the bus. After that 2 hour ride came the 23 hour one, 3 hours after that ended we jumped on another that lasted 10 hours, and almost directly after that was a 5 hour one. During that we were made watch the same terrible Argentinian movie twice! When it all ended we got out of the bus station and walked in the wrong direction for a long time. Some ladies put us straight and we found our hostel, only to be told the person I’d made the booking with was a daughter of someone and doesn’t actually work there, so we we were on the hunt again. So after all that, I was prepared to point my hairdryer at this glacier if it didn’t live up to expectations.
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