Well, While i´m at Bariloche now (ran, i got you some Jauja ice cream, steak and chocolate, but they all got mixed up and the sack started dripping), I´ll take the opportunity to recap on other things I´ve done.
After getting back from Las Torres, my travelling companions and I (a guy named Gili and a girl named Anat), rested for a bit in a family-run hostel, then took a 7 hour (or was it 70? who can tell?) bus to El calafate.
Now, El Calafate is in the middle of a desert. The strange thing is that this desert contains at least one really big fresh water lake... so how can it be a desert (devoid of almost any plants, trees and/or kittens)? I have no idea. In any case, El Calafate (named after the local Calafate bush, whose berries, if eaten, are said to ensure return to Patagonia) is small, uninteresting and expensive. However, it is the gateway to two very important things:
1) Perito Moreno Glacier (the thing i´m pointing at)
the first (and only, so far) glacier I´ve seen. It is extremely impressive ("Impresionante"), big, sharp and beautifully blue. The breaking off of parts is an event people wait there for.
2) Cerro Fitzroy
A lovely (and free) national park peak, with streams, trees and snow around.
We wanted to watch the sunrise hit the peak, but freak winds at night and lots of rain in the morning prevented it.
What we did manage to do is get completely soaked on our way back to the nearby village (El Chalten). Getting wet from wool had to trek socks is, shall we say, a unique experience. ;-)
Sadly, there are no pictures of me completely wet, as I didn´t want to take the camera out in the rain...
Of course, 15 minutes after our miserable return to El Chalten, the sun came out, the rain stopped and summer returned...
From there, we went back to El Calafate, and made the 28-hour trip to El Bolson.
This is what I looked like during the trip: (at least on the coche-cama bus)
Further updates coming...don't change the channel.
4 comments:
the glacier seems to be really something. Where do you keep the rest of the pictures?
yo bro!
whats up? u seem like having a great time- i want 2 c a big ice things 2!!!
can u climb on them also?do a ice climbing thing?
anyways
we miss u here
and want u back already. and i think anat and ginger will agree
have a great week@
the rest of the pictures are on my camera with a CD backup.
Nela, there were some people going around on the edge of the glacier (but only on the edge, as in the middle it's impossible to walk)
wow! that is one impressive glacier,
and finally the photos are bigger than a postal-stamp...
Lev wanted to know if you completed your self-review on time? ;-)
Lior.
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