6 minutes left in the locoturio before im charged another $3 pesos so im making this short and sweet. ill elaborate when i ahve more time!
we left BsAs early saturday morning and flew to el calafate, we explored the town and el lago argentina beneath the mountains, it looked liek a picture from a water bottle. yesterday, saturday, we went to el parque nacional glacieres to see el perito moreno, a glacier here is a picture http://www.google.com.ar/imgres?q=glacier+perrito+moreno&um=1&hl=es&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:es-AR:official&biw=1360&bih=604&tbm=isch&tbnid=MRkO0Y0-7i9d2M:&imgrefurl=http://www.happytellus.com/perito-moreno-glacier/argentina/spanish&docid=HbekdcqsJflXlM&imgurl=http://www.happytellus.com/img/perito-moreno-glacier/perito-moreno-glacier_26.jpg&w=500&h=375&ei=b0i4TrmqLcfPgAelh9mlBA&zoom=1 . THAT looked liek a picture from a water bottle. we walked around the park through the marked paths ( it was breathtaking, literally, from lots and lots of stairs) and watched the immense body of ice. i say "watched" because it was like the glacier was alive, moving and making noise. we found one spot where we sat and watched ice break off, it was so cool and so loud. last night we took a 3 hour bus to el chalten, the hiking capitol of argentina. we found a $35 peso hostel (roughly 8 dollars a night) sitting in the tiny mountain town of el chalten.. we met some uruguayans, marina had a heated discussion with them about politics, of which i know/care nothing about so i kept my mouth shut most of the time. it was freeeezing last night, but today it was awesome. we woke up around 10 (the latest i plan to sleep for the rest of the trip), walked 100 yards from our hostel and started hiking. within 20 minutes we were frolicking through the trail singing sound of music, because thats what it looked like around us. huge green mountains with even bigger snowcapped ones behind it. so pretty. i felt like we walked through a bunch of different locations because we walked every type of terrain from gravel, to steep hills, to forests and fields. it was awesome. we ended our hike at laguna torre which is beneath some pretty awesome mountains, here is a link to a picture http://www.guiadecabanias.com/el-chalten/paseos-excursiones/laguna-torre.html .. when we got there we laid in the sun by the lake and rested for about an hour before returning on our hike back to el chalten. tomorrow we are doing an even longer hike, about 10 hours, to el fitz roy. goooogle dat.
ok times up! ill update later. peace peeeepz.
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