Perito Moreno Glacier

The foot of Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park

I joined a group from the hostel on a small guided and unconventional tour of the ever-so-touristy Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina`s Los Glaciares national park. The glacier occupies the southern part of the park – the same park as Cerro Fitzroy, which stands in the northern sector.

We took a small ¨combi¨(their word for ¨shuttle¨) on an alternative unpaved road to the national park. Along the road we saw lots of animals you would normally miss on one of those mass tourist buses : condors, flamingos, rheas, eagles, falcons, native ducks, sheep, sheep and more sheep. We continued on to the southern face of the glacier, where we took a short one hour hike along the shores of the lake.  We caught up with the combi and spent two hours of free time looking at the calving glacier from catwalks on the opposing mountainside. After lunch we went to a boat launch near the northface of the glacier to get perspective of the glacier face from the water.

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