Name: EL CALAFATE TRAVEL GUIDE ❄️🇦🇷 | Things to See, Eat & Do in El Calafate, Argentina
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Located in Patagonia on the southern shore of La Guarantino, this town serves as a gateway to Los Glaciades national park and the world famous Perito Moreno Glacier.

Most activities in El Calafate center around glaciers, marveling at them by boat.

The sheer scale of it, how it just goes on as far as the eye can see, and

learning about them at the Glaciarium Patagonian Ice Museum.

But you can also enjoy other other activities like spending the day at an estancia.

Seeing flamingos and all sorts of bird life at the Laguna Nimez reserve.

And browsing the gnome village in search of souvenirs.

This video is your travel guide to El Calafate, covering things to do, where to eat, and

We're going to kick things off with the most epic experience we had in El Calafate.

This is a full day boat tour that allows you to cruise the icy teal waters of La Guargentino, the largest freshwater lake in Argentina.

We saw glacier after glacier after glacier all day long, including the Spigazzini Glacier, which is famous for having the park's highest ice wall with a height of 134 meters.

Our excursion will be departing from here.

We're going to board our boat and go cruising on Lago Argentino, biggest lake in all of Argentina.

We also came upon countless icebergs and at some point during the tour, the crew fished some glacier ice out to enjoy with a drink.

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, Moreno, which everyone knows.

And now we're cruising towards another massive glacier.

Just keeps getting more impressive, doesn't it?

The grand finale was seeing the Perito Moreno glacier up close and personal.

The crew had yet one more surprise up their sleeve and played the song Aurora, a very patriotic song in Argentina that moved the passengers to tears.

There was something really special about being in front of such a massive and powerful wonder of nature and feeling so small and also having so much love and pride for Argentina.

So in case it wasn't obvious enough, we loved this experience.

And whenever I hear a friend is heading down to El Calafate, I tell them to take this glacier's gourmet tour.

It was a splurge for us at the time, but worth every penny.

So of course, a visit to Los Glaciades was at the top of the list.

Los Glaciades national park is a UNESCO World Heritage site, known for its spectacular glacial landscapes, towering mountains and pristine wilderness.

And it's also the largest national park in Argentina.

The park has two different access points nearby.

El Chalden gives you access to the northern part of the park, which is considered Argentina's trekking capital with its epic mountain peaks.

Meanwhile, El Calafate gives you access to the southern part of the park, where you can witness some of the most beautiful glaciers in the world.

We are back in Los Glaciares National Park.

We enjoyed it so much on the day when we did that boat excursion to visit the glaciers that we knew we wanted to come back and do a bit of hiking and see the glacier from a different vantage point as well.

And basically to have a whole day to kind of just admire it up close.

This is probably the more classic option of seeing it, isn't it?

So basically we arranged our own transportation.

We booked the bus from El Calafate here to the national park.

We left town at 9 in the morning, got here like 10:30, and we've got free time.

We're on our own schedule until 4 in the afternoon when the bus returns back to town.

In this part of the park, you can walk the Perito Moreno Glacier walkways, locally known as Pasarelas, where you can see the Perito Moreno glacier and watch it calve into the lake.

We spent the whole day walking the different walkways and stopping at the different observation points along the way to take in the show.

There are different boardwalks and circuits ranging from 500 meters to 1100 meters, and

these take between half an hour and an hour and a half to complete.

So we managed to walk a few of them over the course of our visit.

We are now doing a section of the boardwalk that goes through the forest, which is a nice Change because it's not so cold and windy here.

Also, there's a bit more separation between the crowds.

There's a little bit more effort involved.

I've personally found the glaciers have become more and more impressive the higher the vantage point.

See the sheer scale of it, how it just goes on as far as the eye can see.

Really up until the top of the mountain peak.

And when you can see the top of Perito Moreno, like, that's amazing.

Oh, in terms of what to wear, guys, I will say bundle up.

So it's a lot colder here than it is in Calafate, big time.

We also enjoyed visiting Laguna de los Tempanos or the Iceberg Lagoon.

This is where the chunks of ice that break off the Perito Moreno glacier end up.

It's a pretty cool spot and worth the little detour.

And the other thing I wanted to mention is the.

The little boat trip that you can do from the park to get up close to Perito Moreno.

This is a different trip from the one that we did two days ago.

You literally get on the boat, they give you a loop and they take you back.

if you want to save some money and you just want to get up close to one glacier, you can do that and you can just book it once you get here.

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