Alexia y Aurélien en Argentina !!! in EV!!!

Up to now, as you have noticed, our trip was very pleasant. But this Saturday, we passed in the category "memorable travels". Indeed, what we discovered is really mesmerising.

Perito Moreno is the most known glacier of parc national los glaciares (park registered with the world inheritance of UNESCO once again). This glacier is not largest nor the most sloping of the park then why so much noise? Because it is alive! The only glacier in the world which is obviously continuing to advance!

Passed the first visual impression (30km X 4km X 60m) received at a turning of the road since the bus window, comes the auditive impression. This glacier emits a quasi-permanent noise regularly accompanied by unhookings of pieces of ice which fall into the lake with a huge crash.

We remain several hours sitting under the sun looking at the animal living...

Unfortunately we cannot sleep there so we turn over to El Calafate, we eat quickly and set out again towards the house of our host, under the setting sun (it is 23h30). There we meet Paco, a sympathetic backpacker from Sarragosse who just decided to settle in Buenos Aires.

Alarm clock ringing at 7am, the program of the day includes a mini-cruising in the ramifications of Lago Argentino to discover other glaciers, motionless this time...

For the first time since our departure of London, the weather is not nice, it rains a little bit... It does not prevent us from starting cruising under the catamaran's roof.

On our way, we meet icebergs: impressionants, enormous, of a white and blue color.

The first visited glacier, Spegazzini is known to be most sloping and highest of the park. Although it is muted and motionless, it is still very beautiful.

The second is the Upsala glacier, largest of all (60km X 7km), so large and so much melting that the boat does not approach too close, fearing an iceberg could be formed at any time.

Then we disembark for a pique-nique, and a walk in a forest which leads to a corner of the lake where 3 glaciers and some icebergs meet themselves. Extremely peaceful...

Then it is the return on El Calafate with the sun back over our heads. In the evening, Alexia eats a roasted trout and Aurélien a parilla (boards of any meat at the exception of beef, roasted and at will).

"It is as in dream!" that Alexia said... And indeed it was terrible this morning with horses, we spend almost 3h climbing and descending a mountain overlooking Lago Argentino and wild spaces as far as the eye can see.

We are escorted by 3 gauchos who give us a demonstration of Argentinian riding. Their horses are terrible and answer at the slightest move. We ride next to cows, rabbits (enormous! Malik would have been in love) and falcons.

It is like the bidoune but 1000 times bigger! In spite of the saddles made of thick carpets, Aurélien feels a bit painfull just above his laps...

After this stroll, we have the lunch offered: lamb, chicken, potato, pumpkin and onions all roasted and as much as you want(again...).

In the meantime of a night, Alexia bind friendship with a spider which left her traces onboth arms and shoulders...

Note for Melanie and Remon: The excursion with horse, we did it with a Dutch couple whose man was called Remon...

El Calafate is over, this night (3am) we get into the bus for Ushuaia, arrival planned 18 hours later...

After the 3 days without shower due to a broken boiler at Mattias, our first action on Tierra del Fuego will be to wash ourselves. For the news, you will wait a bit...

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