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Monte Fitz Roy

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Five days out in the moutains, but a very lazy five days!

We set out from El Chalten “the capital of trekking in Argentina” in slight drizzle towards Cerro Torre – it was the type of rain that makes you wetter than you realize and we rolled into Campamento de Agostini rather wet round the edges.  We set up camp and huddled in the tent, hoping the weather would clear. [read on]

Iceberg…dead ahead

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

So we are now in Argentina! After a very painless border crossing on the bus between Chile & Argentina (the highlight at the Argentine border was watching the officials trying to get a sheep out of the building!) we ended up in El Calafate.

The main reason this town exists is to feed tourists into Los Glacieres National Park. As the name suggests there are lots of glaciers near El Calafate!

We treated outselves to two day trips to visit some of them. The first day we headed to Perito Moreno. [read on]