Back in El Carafate after one and a half day detour to the Perito Moreno Glacier. The weathergods were kind to us, and we had a nice ride there yesterday with sunshine and, yes, no wind whatsoever! Approaching the glacier slowly on bikes was pretty amazing and the views from the mirador (on top of a steep hill of course) were just spectecular. The glacier is huge, the front in the lake is about 5 km wide and 50 m high, and you can see the blue ice streching up into the southern icefield for at least 30 km. We were told that it is one of the most beautiful spots in Southern Argentina, and it certainly is. Saying that being able to walk up to the glaciers of Mt Fitz Roy (from El Chalten) was pretty spectecular, too.
We were real lucky with our timing as we were riding back to El Calafate today in the pouring rain and would have not had much of a view of the glacier today. Still not much wind though. Since leaving Cochrane on the Carreterra Austral it has gone noticably colder, and we are riding with our warm layers on nearly all the time. I am grateful I brought my booties, warm fleece top and winter riding gloves!
We will head towards Torres del Paine in Chile tomorrow, it will probably take three days to get there, and two to get from there to Puerto Natales. If the we weather permits, we will go hiking for up to three days in the park, so it may be a while till the next blog entry. Also the internet is not always relibably available in those small places along the way. Hope all is well!
PS Calafate is a type of blueberry growing on bigger bushes; tastes good. Apparently if you eat them once, you will return to Patagonia in the future. I could handle that, I think ;)
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