Perito Moreno

After a day of travel to the quaint down of El Calafate, I joined a tour to visit the glacier Perito Moreno. You can see the glacier from space! It’s part of the Southern Andes. Apparently a few weeks ago a large part of it broke off (which happens regularly every few months).

It was a bit of a miserable day weatherwise, although no huge gusts of wild wind like in Torres Del Paine. We walked over the glacier for a while, looking at the crevaces and tasting some of the pure water! Not sure just how pure it was give how many people walk across it every day, but it was so blue! The cool thing was we were drinking water that was 400 yrs old in the making!

Luckily this glacier is stable and not receding apparently. Let’s hope it stays that way.Read more