Argentina
A couple of days in El Calafate, Argentina
So, you’re ready to head off and visit Los Glaciares national park, but you’ve also got a couple of days to fill in El Calafate? Here’s what we did in town. El Calafate is a new town, only founded in…
An unforgettable day walking on the Perito Moreno Glacier with the kids
Located in the South Patagonian ice field, Argentina’s Glacier Perito Moreno is one of the world’s most impressive, and fortunately for us reasonably accessible, glaciers in the world. It is some 30km long and around 5km wide at the foot…
Ushuaia, Argentina: Walking to Glacier Martial and in Tierra del Fuego national park
One of Rafe’s wishes for this trip around the world was to get up close to, and if possible to walk on, a glacier. In New Zealand we sighted the Franz Josef glacier but couldn’t get particularly close to it…
Ushuaia, Argentina: The wildlife of the Beagle Channel by boat
One of our aims on this trip has been to sample as many outer reaches of the compass as possible around the world, so we were keen to get as far south as we could – which led us to…