Glaciers and Dinners.

Well, It has been a while but after Ushuaia, we moved up north (the only way possible) to a town called El Calafate. The journey was very long and we had to take 2 buses so we decided to break up the journey and spend a night in Rio Gallegos. Where we watched Argentina win its first world cup match and then dodged all the celebrating cars on the street afterwards.

















We also splashed out and ate at a fantastic restaurant, where for about $20 we ate like kings and drank a lot of very good Argentinian wine. I should probably introduce ¨we¨a bit better. Rob and Nina are a young married couple, who live in London. Nina is originally from yugoslavia she is fiesty and super fun and is always teasing me. Rob is a true gentleman and always looks after the group. Tom is from Ireland, who smokes, gambles and snores but is always fun.

The next day we went to El Calafate which is normally a thriving tourist town but was pretty quiet and not much going on. I got to watch Australia defeat Japan, we have been watching a lot of football here.

















Again we ate and drank very well. An absolute highlight was visiting the Moreno Glacier. It is one of the worlds biggest glaciers and we took a taxi tour with a driver whose name was Jesus, he was a pretty cool guy. The glacier is absolutely massive, it is the same size as Buenos Aires and words can not really describe how awe inspiring it is. It is a fantastic blue colour and with a face 5Kms long. We took a boat ride along the face and drank local beer and drank whiskey with glacier ice. I have some amazing photos.

















We then walked along a board walk for a closer view and we spent quite some time there, we were lucky enough to see a chunk of the glacier fall of the side and crash into the lake. Luckily Tom had managed to catch it on video. We also got to see many eagles and condors on the journey there.