January 24, 2011
In our daily followed by the longest interval, and because of crowded classes and lack of meaningful access to the Internet (from three days trying to load pictures, as if this process is not yet zakonczylysmy). The journey by plane to El Calafate was a success painlessly and most importantly fast.
Rozlokowalysmy themselves in our shelter Che Lagarto, which was a nice attention and quite a nice room (with TV), but it was also the place where the party never ends, to which you can get used to, especially as you have a private room with TV . For other defects in our hostel, but it was hard to adapt, and was present total shit in the kitchen. Because it was located at the top, so and so did not want us to go there too often to walk, and already frightened away completely with the view we thought what zastaniemy there. But luckily
El Calafate turned out to be yet greater than the tourist mecca of Ushuaia, and there really is main street is dotted with restaurants and cafes, so we had to choose from. One evening we went to in the end to a typical Argentine so-called pubs. parilla, or meat served with a huge barbecue. We chose a buffet and it looked like this, the waiter reported more servings of meat for us, first of lamb, then beef and chicken, and then another chorizo \u200b\u200b(spicy sausage or local), and then we went no longer full, but wanted to gdbysmy we could sit there and eat, and we would burst. How are they able to eat such a quantity of meat that I do not know this so late in the evening. But on the other hand, do not see here very obese people as in the U.S., so somehow it works. We tasted meat Get very, ie, chicken and chorizo \u200b\u200bto me, and neither mainly lamb.
Because we had already generally quite a telling off after "Krupówki, we went to the first day of a trip to Los Glaciares National Park (the park glaciers), and more precisely to the southern part of the mostly famous Perito Moreno glacier. It is named after a part of the traveler and explorer of this region, who at the age of 21 years set off by a wild boar on horseback in the direction of Patagonia and Chile And discovered, and described the surrounding area. Also contributed to the establishment of the first National Park in Argentina, already in these areas.
glacier itself, in turn, is famous for its ease of accessibility, you can reach here by bus almost to the glacier and admire it from a series of footbridges observation, which approach really near (one of them was closed because of damage to recently by a block of ice detached from the glacier). The second reason is the popularity of its activity. This is one of the only known glaciers in the world, which has not been declining in recent years, due to its location (forehead almost touching the trace of a glacier on the other side) and the rates of movement of the glacier (up to 2 m / day), they often formation of ice bridges and impressive calving glaciers of the ice blocks wielich tearing. Unfortunately, that day, the glacier was probably not in the mood, or was tired, because apart from a few smaller pieces, nothing he did not want to break away. But anyway we liked.
We spent the next day watching your bird on a nearby lake Argentina (Moreover, the largest in Argentina), in principle, on its shores and reserve Nimez. Most involve us flamingos, which from afar looks like pink on the water fights, and so We called them, too. In addition to comical flamingos (hard to find a less proportional bird, as shown by the most in-flight), one could see all sorts of ducks (we liked this best with a blue bow, it looked as if dipped in a bucket of paint), the local geese and ibises.
zostawilysmy On the last day the catamaran day excursion to the glaciers, including glacier sounding familiar ... Upsala. The office advertises will this party as a preview three glaciers, which is not the end in accordance with the truth, because it turns out that the entrance to the branch of the lake leading to the Upsala glacier has long been blocked by the mass of ice, but this did not we already mentioned. Early in the morning about 7:00 when we left El Calafate beautiful sun shining, but already on the way to the port was felt famous Patagonian wind. How did then was to prove it was not without significance for our trip, because the lake in Argentina turned into a stormy sea, on which floated dotatkowo icebergs from the calving glaciers. Maybe it would be cool and had not rained the whole time, because by that views were not as impressive. And of course a big part of the passengers suffered from seasickness (luckily not us), which under these conditions was inevitable. But for now we still have great weather, so there is nothing to complain.
occasion we met a couple of Polish, which travels to South America from December, and started in Bogota, now moving to the south, in order to return to Bogota in May and finish their trip. They call it an adventure!
We, in turn, since yesterday we are in El Chalten, a tiny village in the northern part of Los Glaciares Park, where fortunately no longer have to pay for admission to the park, and it is a fairly expensive event, because for every "input" pay 100 pesos, or 75 zl! It's more expensive than in many national parks in the United States, and there the ticket is valid most often weekly, and not one day, with our not to mention the Tatras, because they seem funny at the same cost.
In the vicinity of El Chalten is a lot of trails for walking, and, above all the beautiful mountains. So far the weather was nice. Today was beautiful and the sun and even in the mountains was good visibility of what's here is rare, due to strong wind, which blows here, and almost always brings clouds and rain over the Andes. But the clouds kiedu August widens the views are breathtaking, like today, and even I managed to see almost the entire massif of Fitz Roy, who is the most chrakterystyczney for El Chalten and is here on every postcard. Regrettably, I only admire the views, because Ana today had got a very severe back pain (the roots) and barely moves. But it told me to go on the trail and do a lot of pictures, so yes I did.
I hope that tomorrow will Anne be able to move far more efficiently and we will go together in some way. We'll see!
PS. supplement 25 / 1: Unfortunately, neither back had not improved enough that she could go to a top, and the weather was beautiful again, so I go again in August alone have produced on the trails, and admire what it was. Tomorrow we hope to walk together to the waterfall, where he is going after nearly flat in August, because then hopefully back Neither ones will give advice, and even my legs need a little rest after yesterday's 14 km and 22 km lazenia today. You may find that tomorrow I will move me from Amy worse, but then at least we were assured that this transitional stage.
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