The Glaciers National Park is in Calafate Patagonia. The Hielo Continental (ice cap) covers approximately 8000 square miles. The National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Perito Moreno Glacier shown in these photos is 2 miles wide and rises 165 feet above the surface of Lago Argentina. It is a spectacular sight!
Here is the Glacier calving!
Here is more, with a Condor Flying!
The vast majority of non-Southern Amercan toruists come by tour bus, which loses you the oppportunity to drive at leisure all over the park, seeing everything, without a handler and people you don’t know. We flew into Calafate and rented a car and can visit gorgeous Pataglonia on our own. Highly recommend.
How can ice be so beautiful?
Spectacular!!! An unforgettable adventure!!!
I gather you’re on your travels again?
Yes!!! The traveling life is the life for me! Cheers!
Cindy, this is just too beautiful to be real !!! Thanks for the pics and the travelogue. Fantastic !!!!!
Paul
Thank you Paul! Was anticipating returning here for a longer stay for about six years!!!! Cheers!
Wow, beautiful! I would love to see this, too.
Add it to your list & thank you!
Amazing, the shots are brilliant
Merci, merci & thank you!
Incredible photos!! This must be an unbelievable sight in person!
Yes it is an incredible place & 80 degrees which is not normal! Cheers!
Cindy, the pictures are glorious and magnificent. Love the ice. It is beautiful. I definitely would love to see this in person.
I hope you don’t mind if I reblog your link on my reblog page?
Judy, thank you so much. Much appreciate. The environment out here is just glorious! Very hard for me to capture the beauty of the desolate and vast steppe. Cheers to you!
Magnificent.
Muchos Gracias!
Such dramatic extremes, Patagonia seems incredible in all the pictures I see of her.
Yes, if you can imagine, we were viewing the gaciers in 80 degree weather. Wonderful but not a good sign for our beleagured planet!
That last photo with the small people dramatises the size of the glacier, such a beautiful startling blue
Thank you. I wanted to include the ant people to give perspective of the immensity of these glaciers!
You certainly put it into perspective
Stunning and awe inspiring are what comes to mind. So raw and majestic!
Yes! The barren, yet life filled steppe extends for thousands of miles and is beyond my ability to describe. Beautiful, beautiful area!
The photos and the place are simply AWESOME! What an adventuress you are! 🙂
Thank you Dorann! I just want to grab life while I can and shake all I can out of it!!!
Simply gorgeous Cindy. Looks like it was really worth the trip! The ice is such a lovely shade of blue…
Yes we are very glad to be here right now! Weather is perfect!! Thanks!
Magnificent pics, Cindy. What a wonderful trip that must have been. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Thank you so much! We are actually on the trip right now!
Wow! Well enjoy. 🙂
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beautiful post
This is so kind of you! Thank you & cheers!
I came back to spend more time looking through these fantastic photographs. I mean wow Cindy they are some of the most amazing – to be that close to the glaciers offers views that most of us will never seen. Your travel is our gift – thank you for sharing. Mary
You are most kind, and yes the glacier was absolutely incredible and the catwork allowed one to walk close to the glacier for miles. It calved about every 30 minutes. Remarkable!
That is so cool, I’ll bet it was a bit of an out-of-body experience!
Oh my goodness, how beautiful! Thank you for posting these
Thank you for appreciating them!
Just BREATHTAKING, aren’t they! 😀 Fae.
Yes indeed!!! CLEAN!!!
It’s going to be end of mine day, however before finish I am reading this impressive paragraph to improve my knowledge.
Oh how lovely! Thank you!!
I had no idea they had glaciers in South America. Learn something new everyday!
It is amazing how we never stop learning, if we want to დდ