Rena and Wade Around the World

Our first Round the World trip from Jan 2006 - July 2006.

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The adventures of living and working abroad. From Cayman to Europe, a break year and side adventure travels, this is our story.

Monday, January 16, 2006

Around El Calafayte (Argentina)

So we arrived in El Calfayte at 10:30 p.m. on January 15, 2006. We were stuck at the base of Torres del Paine for most of the day until we could catch our 4 hour bus transfer to El Calafayte. El Calafayte is a pretty small town, but very nice. It looks like a mini alpine village with all the stores built like little log cabins. Although it looks like an alpine village, there are no ski hills around this area. Lots of mountains though. As we arrived late and did not have accomodation booked we struggled finding a place. This was our first true "HOSTAL" experience. Pretty cramped quarters as you can see from the picture. Good thing we knew our bunk mates!

One of the main attractions around El Calafayte is the Perito Moreno Glacier. It is one of the only advancing glaciers in the world. It advances by approximately 2 metres a day! Although you may not be able to tell by the picture, the height of this glacier was about the size of a 15 storey building. As the glacier is advancing, there is a lot of pressure exerted and thus massive chunks of ice fall (or calve) off the glacier.

We sat around the glacier and drank wine for about 2 hours just listening to chunks of ice calving into the glacier lake. The sounds they made were unbelievable. It was almost defeaning at times!

2 Comments:

Blogger Kamis Khlopchyk said...

Sounds like you are having lots of fun! Quite the adventurous people you've become, who would have thought?!

Great to hear from you, keep the pictures and stories coming.

1:29 PM  
Blogger The Adventures of Rena & Wade said...

Accountants can be surprising sometimes!

1:03 PM  

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