El Calafate - Perito Moreno

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El Calafate - Perito Moreno

A day at one of the largest glaciers in Argentina, Perito Moreno.

When Mike and I bought our tickets to Perito Moreno we thought that we would spend a couple of hours exploring the glacier and then head on to our next destination. Wow, were we terribly mistaken! The bus services comes twice. Once to drop off at 10 am and once to pick up at 5 pm, yes folks that is 7 hours of staring at a freaking glacier.  For the first 2 hours we were pretty enchanted by the sheer size of the thing, the continual ice chunks falling off and crashing into the ocean, and the amazing cold icy blue color but seriously 7 hours was WAY to long.

 

There are these maze of stairs that take you to several different views of the glacier, seriously this thing was gigantic.

Little story: When we got off the bus in the morning there was this little older lady traveling from Turkey, who didn't speak Spanish and hardly spoke English, who asked if she could follow around with us for the day. Of course we said yes. Throughout the day she explained to us, multiple times, how amazing her country and city were and how we needed to come to Turkey and stay with her (she gave us her address, email address, and phone number). Her sales pitch about Turkey was very persuasive and it is a place were Mike and I would love to go, Eastern Europe. Why is it that everyone thinks "their country/city/place of residence" is the best even in reality it may not be? I am not saying that Turkey is not all that and a bag of chips I am just saying that people are naturally bias.

Now it's time for Glacier Love 

(we have 7 hours of pictures of practically the same thing so here are a couple that we liked)

On the far right of the glacier you can see where a huge ice chunk just fell into the water