El Calafate - Perito Moreno

Holá !! Qué tal ?

So, finally, I got there. Zi Glacier. The Unesco spot of this area. Hell yeah. 

Well well, how to describe it ? A sort of huge river of ice, flowing down between two cliffs. When I say "flowing", I mean it at an average speed of 3 to 6 meters a day. So... from 12,5 to 25cm/h. Yeah, that's a flow. 

Anyway, here are the pictures I took. Took a long while to sort and select all of them, but well, there are many things to see in this place... 

Just a few pictures from the 70km journey until the glacier. Beautiful valleys, to my mind, and nice dying vegetation. 

Then, por supuesto, the glacier. Gargantuan amount of compressed, cracking, growling, alive blue ice. Why blue, will you ask ? Well, first, it doesn't seem blue at all. Yeah, sorry, but my camera didn't manage to notice it. I mean : I didn't manage to make my camera render the true authentic magical blue color of the Glacier. 

But why was it blue ? Because, seemingly, the ice is so compressed (don't forget that the path tightens midway, and that the ice is 60m high. Which means... Huh. At the bottom of it, 60kg/cm². That doesn't look that much, does it ? Anyway, the ice is compressed by other ways, I guess, so, let's get it for granted : the ice is highly pressured). Then, it reflects the rays of the sun as water does. It's as if the molecules of frozen water were so close to each others that it looks like water. 

But... maybe you don't give a truck. 

Just have a look !

Have a closer look and see the size of trekkers on the left :p

This one was taken with the "cold mode" of my camera. You can have a better idea of how "blue" it looks, even though this very color is artificial.

 Once again, to prove it was me... :) And to show you my haaaaat !! ♥

Again, from further and in a lower quality, I don't know why...

 Indeed...♥

Yeah, walking on the passerelles, you have a very nice overview of the surrounding forrest, weakened by the cold, the wind, and the french speaking tourists.

 Massive, eh ? 

This was compressed ice...

♥

 The Calafate, a small tree giving fruits looking a bit like a blueberry (myrtille, in french, yeah, "mûre" is mulberry... strange)  and tasting like it. It gave the name to the town I'm currently living in.

 

Notice the milk-looking color of the water. A mix of sediments which gave this culinary name to the water of the lake : Dulce de Glaciar. Aaaaah Argentinians and their "dulce" !

Unesco classified, dude !!

At last I got back to the Hostel (Che Largato, awesome place, by the way...), blue-lipped and shivering. This evening, I'll program my tour of tomorrow... Upsala ? Chilian side of the Perito Moreno ? Chaltén and the Fitz Roy ? 

I'm wondering, sincerely... The more I see things of Mother Earth and Nature, the more I realize I'm, by far, more sensible to the "historical" things. I mean, this glacier is great, is amazing, is impressive, but well... Seeing others don't make me that excited, so... maybe I'll go quickly to El Chaltén to see a lake and a mountain, and then see... La Cueva de Las Manos !!! A cave full of painted hands of people living a few thousand yeas ago. This is gonna be great. 

Moreover, this Patafuckingonia is very expensive. I have already said that, I think, but well. I'm looking forward to leave this touristized area. Maybe I'll get some historia in a discrete old quiet town, meet people there, learn how to make braids and makramé, and then go back to BsAs... Who knows ?

Gonna cook ! Chau, stalkers ;)