and we brought.... a glacier, un penguino, a dolphin, algunos pesos, y mucho mas! (Had to keep entertained on our long trek). The first night in Calafate we feasted on an all you can eat- all you can drink BBQ held at our hostel, which might have been the best meal weve had yet! loads of lomo (loin), papas, and even our first veggies, which is great because I think we were starting to get signs of scurvy... (ha, jk mom!) Our British mates, Tom & Christian joined us for penguinos full of wine and we had a great night.
Early morning we left for our excursion to Perito Moreno Glacier, a 3 part tour. To give you an idea of size, the whole city of BA can fit on top of the glacier and it is 20 stories high (and 60 stories below the water). This is no ice cube! Tons of pictures but for some reason we cant upload them... but not even sure if they could do the glacier justice. It was amazing and because of an optical phenomenon, parts of it looked very blue, like a painting. We took a boat up close to the glacier and then continued to get our crampons on (get get get your cramps on ) and hike on top of the glacier for an hour and a half in the sunshine and glacier rain, which alternated about every 5 minutes. this was brilliant! we felt truly accomplished, and tired.
after a long day at Calafate, we flew back up to BA and went through what seemed to be like going through immigration at Ellis Island in order to catch the BuqueBus (a ferry and bus) to Uruguay, to the beach town of Punta del Este.
Which brings us to now, where we will rub it in a bit that we spent the morning on the beach (covered in sunscrean of course) and relaxing. The weather here is perfect, not too hot, but definately summer. They call this the Hamptons of S. America so we will enjoy this last leg of our trip before returning to the North Pole of NY.
Wishing we could show all the pics... but soon hopefully!
ciao!
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