perito moreno

moreno was argentinean pioneer explorer of surrounding of calafate and today national park los glaciers, he founded a lot, was great in his job so gets tittle perrito from government, was first who pushed foundationof national parks in argentina, but he never saw the glacier named later by him.

some people told us it is just attraction, there are many glaciers around similar as perito is, that, for example, glacier gray (that we missed in torres) is more attractive since it has also ice bergs in lake. the others told us that moreno is beautiful, must be seen and lorana told us that many people say that perito moreno is bigger attraction then iguazu falls...

we will see iguazu next month and perito moreno which we saw two days ago was really spectacularly, it was something different!!! we have just cross rio negro (i am typing this in bus to cordoba) which means that we are out of patagonia and after all we have seen i can tell that perito moreno is the biggest attraction!



we visited moreno with local tour organized by our hostel and we have nice young cecilia as tour guide. cold day was rising but dryand very clear. we could see far away, we stopped to take picturesfrom far of mountain where we were going to and we were witness ofone more argentinean sunrise...did i mention that it is around 9h so here, in argentina before sunrise would be a bit longer movie : )

first look to perito moreno was not something big...that is the picture one can see everywhere around...and it was still cold and not pleasant to stay there on hill...next plan for tour was boat trip upto north face of glacier...there were several similar tours as ours and in one of them were our friends from torres, veronika and martin...lucky guys with weather so this day which was especially nice were one more prove to that! cecilia told us that it is very unusual that we can see all mountains around, they are usually in fog (so god blessed us after torres:)) )
boat trip we have to pay extra but we are now happy that we give that money...it was great to be 300-400m close to giant ice berg (we only later realize that it was so far, on the boat we thought we are much closer). first ice piece was as piece of glass, i mean big big piece...whow it was hermoso and lindo and fabulous and beautiful and fenomenalno! just look at photos that i attached...no comment!











and face of glacier 50m of hight, one can not know that just look at it...must be something near to have aspect of ratio (red velicine:)) ) and later on we will took pic of our boat from nearby terraces where visitors are aloud to walk, took a pictures and listen how glacier works...





















every 15 min you can hear some pieces of ice how crashes into lake. but shell we see some big enough part how crash? they fall but somewhere that we can not see.. for that we attach to lucky veronika and martin and results come.: )) already in first 15min one big part crashes in to water. for next big crash we were waiting on the closest teras to glacier next two hours...and it payoff....we could see first small parts falling, and after hour the big guy was falling. juhhhuuuu, i have sequence of photos (giving you just 3-4) and martin has complete spectacle recorded...all together with our screams when it's happened!!! are we happy now, veronika asked....:)))) yes, we leave park satisfied...

in hostel we found that somebody is also in our room...that was one more surprise ( i already told you at the end of last blog), another torres fanatic, english kata and french sebastien living in barcelona and on the one year trip around the world...more screaming for that day, nice dinner prepared by sebastien, beer, wine...

yesterday noon we left calafate, seb and kata will meet japanese friends, soon we will found out theirs names and went to chalten formore winter tracking...there will find nice weather since now they will probably go at the same time as veronika and martin...xexexe. all the best for all of them, and for us also....tomorrow in this time we will walking along cordoba streets with hopefully much less cloths on ourself.