Travel: March 2006 Archives
Jose in the driving snow. We skiied in that. It was pretty crazy.
We had great weather the day we visited the Perito Moreno glacier. We could see all the way up the valley to the mountains where the glacier begins.
The top edge of the Perito Moreno glacier.
Today I turn 28. I am a happy 28-year-old. :)
(That's me, exalting at the beauty that is Fitz Roy. Photo taken by my friend Karen.)
Perito Moreno glacier. Kilometers of ice.
The Cuernos Del Paine were shrouded in fog when we first saw them.
The towers of Torres Del Paine peek out over the ridge in front as the sun sets the day we arrived.
Glaciar Gray in Torres Del Paine.
Pile o' backpacks on the Lago Pehoe ferry in Torres Del Paine.
A waterfall with the Torres Del Paine in the background.
The most famous of the glaciers we saw in Argentina -- Perito Moreno. It moves about 2 meters per day and the face rises 40 meters above the water. Standing in front of it, you can actually hear it groaning and creaking. It sheds ice into the water below every few minutes, sometimes in large pieces that sound like an explosion.
The famous towers of Torres Del Paine National Park in southern Chile. We hiked up ~1200 meters to this unnamed lake, only to find that the tops of the towers were behind the clouds. However, since this was the worst weather we had the whole trip (very lucky indeed), we didn't complain -- much!
Another shot of Glaciar Viedma. In the foreground, the ice is very dirty -- a result of how the glacier is slowly grinding away at the rock around it as it inches down the mountain. In the background, the cleaner, more jagged ice of the face can be seen. Behind that is the mountainside!
Underneath the edge of Glaciar Viedma, rock below and ice above. This photo has not been color-corrected at all. It really was that blue!
Cerro Fitz Roy peeks over the ridge above El Chalten, Argentina at sunset.
The valley and mountains just beyond El Chalten, Argentina.
At the far end of Lago Viedma in the northern sector of Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Argentina.
A meadow along the trail to Cerro Fitz Roy in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Argentina.
At the base of Cerro Fitz Roy. It doesn't get much prettier than this. And you don't get much better weather than that day.
In Santiago de Chile.
Just to the left of and below Fitz Roy is Cerro Poincenot, 3002 meters high.
A singer at the same tango show in Buenos Aires.
Tango dancers at Cafe Tortoni in Buenos Aires.
She had her moments, she had some style
the best show in town was the crowd
outside the Casa Rosada crying "Eva Peron!"
The Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires is only rosada on the front side. I didn't know that.
A penguin in the Seno Otway colony near Punta Arenas, Chile.
February 19, 2006. Day 1 in Patagonia. We get off the plane in El Calafate and are picked up by Martin, our very nice driver who becomes our guide for the next three days after we realize how much we like him. He drives us to his town, El Chalten, under the shadow of jagged Fitz Roy.
