one after the other after the other just  blows my mind like today is one of those  

days where i'm actually speechless like this  has been so much grander than i was imagining

well good morning good morning  good morning bright and early  

bright and early for a very special excursion  today i'm feeling super pumped because today  

we're going to be seeing glaciers up close and  personal oh my gosh this is just we've never seen  

this before i don't know i don't know how you  just seen glaciers before i don't think i have  

nothing like what we're going to see today  no not even so we've signed up for a full day  

boat excursion we're getting picked up in a  few moments we're gonna drive down to the port  

and then we're gonna be sailing all day from what  i've read in the brochure we're visiting a minimum  

of five glaciers and going hiking it's gonna  be amazing and we picked the best day to go out  

the winds are calm the sun is out i don't  think there's a cloud in the sky i mean i  

haven't quite looked out fully but from what  i saw looking out the window didn't see any  

clouds yeah just can't wait to go and and to see  this is just going to be like kind of a once in  

a lifetime type of experience i think and we're  gonna bring you guys along let's do it let's go

well guys we have made it to the port this  is a private port it's called puerto soledad  

our excursion will be departing from  here we are now in the provincial  

park so we had to pay our entrance fee it  was 810 pesos for international visitors  

so that's currently like 12 13 or if you have  your dni if you're a resident it is 410 pesos  

and a bit less if you're from this  particular province so yeah we've  

got our tickets we are all sorted it's also  worth mentioning if you are visiting the park  

um on back-to-back days when you come back on  the second day you get 50 off of the entrance  

so that's one way to save money visiting on back  to back days you just have to show your receipt so  

yeah that's it for now we're gonna board our boat  and go cruising on lago argentino biggest lake in  

the whole country biggest lake in all of argentina  what are you thinking let's do it we did this boat  

tour with marpa tag aboard maria turqueza we  boarded at 8 30 am and set sail by 9 with a  

plan to be back at port by 5 pm so it was a full  day excursion the name of this particular tour  

is glaciers gourmet this is because for lunch you  can choose between a gourmet tasting menu served  

on the private deck or a fancy lunchbox which  is what we opted for but more on the food later

so yeah we basically we found our seats um a  lady came by and told us about our lunch options  

so we're going to be having a patagonian lamb  sandwich later on today caramelized onion yes  

sounds delicious it comes with a drink as well  and for the time being we're not allowed to go  

on the deck obviously when you first kind of  pull out of the out of out of the not the ship

when you first pull out of the port you're  usually not allowed on the deck that's been  

for almost every ferry ride we've ever been  on but they will be giving an announcement  

soon letting us know when we can go out and  i'll be out right away we'll be ready for it  

guys i'm ready i'm ready to get out there guys  we are going past floating icebergs how cool

oh  

we just saw our first iceberg i think that's the  first iceberg in my whole life it was amazing it's  

amazing like yeah i know it's i'm speechless too  apparently this is just gonna be a tiny one yeah  

this is just the beginning we've been told it  was amazing and we got so close to it and the  

color of the ice it's such an indescribable  blue like look we're going past it right now

iceberg and i'm enjoying a vanilla cappuccino  with a view of an iceberg on a lake in patagonia  

argentina like what is this yeah it's remarkable  and pastries and pastries i got the face first  

this has been an amazing day so far like  we're just getting started here this is just  

the beginning of the experience oh my gosh i  feel like you guys are going to be in for a long  

episode it's going to be a masterpiece of just  natural beauty you need to come to argentina like  

i'm never going to stop singing this country's  praises there's just so much to see here

all right guys now we're gonna go fishing for  ice let's do this if you're a whiskey drinker  

this part of the tour is your opportunity to enjoy  a wee dram with some ice picked straight off an

iceberg

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we saw a lot of glaciers on this lake excursion  and i don't know if i'm going to be able to list  

them all but this first one right here was  glaciar seco which translates to dry glacier  

this is a hanging glacier and its name refers  to the fact that it's currently receding

then we continue towards heim glacier  which is another hanging glacier that  

had these incredible melt water cascades  running down the side of the mountain

guys more and more glaciers  now we're just watching  

how glaciers slowly melt and you get these  waterfalls this runoff coming down the mountain  

like today is one of those days where i'm  actually speechless like this has been so  

much grander than i was imagining so much bigger  so many more glaciers than i thought we would  

see i thought it was just the one you know berito  moreno which everyone knows this has been such a  

wonderful surprise and now we're cruising towards  another massive glacier oh my gosh that's next

next on the itinerary was spigatsini  glacier which is named after carlos  

luis pegazini the italian argentine botanist  who was the first to study the local flora  

the main characteristic of this glacier is its  height which reaches 135 meters along its front  

this makes it the highest glacier in los glaciates  national park and one of the most important

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great  

next up it was time to stretch her legs  so we disembarked in a place called  

puesto de las vacas which literally translates  to cow stall this place was named so because  

of the runaway cows that either got  lost or escaped from their estancias  

and somehow ended up living in this part of the  park we enjoyed a short guided walk through here

okay guys so we have now disembarked in puesto  de las vacas and we're going on a little bit of  

a hike we've been split up into three different  groups two in spanish one in english we're all  

going with the guide and we've just been learning  a little bit about this home right here you can  

probably see sam hiding in the shade yep that's my  husband um but basically there was a project going  

on here in the national park to try and eradicate  all the wild cows that were living here so  

the people who decided to volunteer for this job  were a finnish man with his chilean wife and their  

son and they lived in this house right here  this little log home oh a creature just landed  

on the lens and it was their job to try and gather  these wild cows that were wandering through the  

park and tame them and then transport them into  town into el calafate so yeah a very isolated part  

of the park to live in no neighbors just them just  this one family of three living here in the park

you

do

hey it just keeps getting more impressive  doesn't it we're up close and personal and  

unlike the first few that we saw earlier on in  

the trip like there's just one after the  other after the other just blows my mind

lunchtime lunch has arrived and this is a gourmet  lunchbox guys it comes with a sandwich which i'm  

going to open in a minute with lamb potatoes and  carrots with some dip and it also came with the  

complimentary drink so all this is included in the  price we decided to go with grapefruit pomelo yeah  

and then you know because how often do you get to  have a special experience like this so we decided  

to splurge a bit not even a splurge we paid  300 pesos for malbec elementos 2019. five bucks  

uh it was five bucks 300 pesos five us  dollars and uh yeah cheers to that sure  

cheers since you can't do it since you're behind  the camera and yeah yeah let's try that sandwich  

oh look at that beauty nice and warm look at  some cheese that's delicious i'm really hungry  

at this point yeah me too this is a great  lunch i think we have about an hour until  

we reach the next destination yeah we can just  sit back relax have some wine enjoy our meal  

life is good at the moment well they just brought  us some glacier ice yeah i'm just gonna say you  

may notice an ice cube in here but this is  a very specialized cube a glacier ice cube  

i can't say i've ever had one of those before  i know some people have been putting whiskey  

in there i'd rather have whiskey but i've  only got grapefruit juice at the moment  

oh you didn't have wine my friend should i  get some whiskey i did have one that's true

the most refreshing ice cube in the whole world  right right here in this cup that's awesome  

well this was unexpected the best surprise  of the day we we really didn't think we  

were getting dessert we had finished lunch  for quite a while i was almost ready to nod  

off for a bit even with this great scenery it's  ready to take a bit of a nap and look what came  

they have a little delicious looking  dessert it's got brownie chunks  

blueberries i think cream and uh the dulce  de leche the argentine caramel at the bottom  

oh that's way better than i was thinking like  i know it's a gourmet dessert they weren't  

kidding when they called this a gourmet uh  gourmet lunch and as good as this lunch is  

above us would you willing to pay 5 000 pesos  more which is about 80 or 90 us dollars more you  

have an exclusive room and uh i think it's like a  four or five course meal there but this has been  

amazing i'm i'm happy with our choice down here  me too this has been great it's been very good

wow

then we entered canal de los tempanos  also known as the iceberg channel  

where we began to cruise towards the perito  moreno glacier now this glacier right here is  

an icon of los glaciates national park it's the  reason why people travel all the way to southern  

patagonia argentina to see this one glacier  what is so special about perito moreno glacier  

well for starters it's one of the few  glaciers in the whole world that is  

still growing it's also pretty massive the  glacier's front is five kilometers long  

its height above the water is about 60 meters  but its total depth is about 170 meters so  

you're actually only seeing a small portion  of what it really is it took our breath away

guys we are back from what

i'm speechless i have no words what i'm trying  to say is we are back from what may very well be  

the best excursion we've ever done well it's  the best boat tour for sure sure the most epic  

the most epic like times three we could have just  gone to one of the glaciers and been blown away  

yeah but by going to all three unbelievable it  just kept getting better and better yeah and okay  

sam is saying three like yes we visited three  major glaciers but we also saw a whole bunch of  

other hanging glaciers yeah along the way it was  just so much more than i was imagining expecting  

the glaciers were so much grander yeah like to  be honest like if you've if you've made to this  

part in the video you've obviously seen our  footage it's nothing like seeing it in person  

you got to do it yeah i mean i go back on that  tour tomorrow is that good there's that much  

fun um and definitely if you can do it on a day  like we had today with the right conditions you  

know sunlight not too many clouds the wind being  reasonable that's that's the key really yeah yeah  

and i will say this tour was a little bit of  a splurge for us so it was 8 000 pesos which  

right now is 130 us dollars included pickup  from our place yes transportation to and from  

included the meal with uh with a beverage  um and all the epicness all the epicness  

and there there are cheaper boat tours where  you get to like you know go and see the glaciers  

um but this one it was a really comfortable boat  like we had nice seats it was very spacious um  

like you also had different levels of decks  where you could go out and and see the glaciers  

from different angles so it was a bit more of  a high-end experience yeah but well worth it if  

you ask i'd say well worth the splurge yeah i mean  it's not like you're gonna visit places too many  

other places like this in the world no at all so  i mean if you're here it's so worth doing this so  

worth coming here for this experience yeah like  this is one of those wow moments in travel that  

you don't always have sometimes maybe if you've  been traveling for a while you maybe haven't had  

that moment in a while yeah but you do something  like this and it just forget it like today we were  

just so pumped to be out there so excited to be  filming and like documenting this for you guys  

it was just a magical day really yeah i can't  remember how many clips but it's probably over  

a thousand including photos it's just nuts like  our cameras were just and we also made up a point  

of enjoying it with their own eyes yeah okay  that's enough camera i'm just like looking  

yeah oh my gosh so yeah once we were finished the  tour we were dropped back into town found a little  

place where we grabbed three little burgers mini  burgers shared those and then walked back here and  

had a little bit of a nap had a little bit of  rest yeah yeah so if you guys are coming to el  

calafate santa cruz the company that we did this  tour with it's called mar patag and you can book  

it through numerous agencies in terms of kel tour  we use caltour yeah they're they're really good  

they have a really really friendly really friendly  staff they do yeah and they speak english so yeah  

great experience nothing but good things to say  and i mean we've still got more time here in