EL CALAFATE, ¿lo mejor de LA PATAGONIA? | Argentina

EL CALAFATE, ¿lo mejor de LA PATAGONIA? | Argentina

After a few weeks with the family in Buenos Aires, we took a plane to southern Patagonia. First stop: El Calafate. Welcome to El Calafate, where we saw glaciers among others the famous expert Moreno, we went to an ice bar for the first time and visited a traditional ranch.

– A bird has to eat it and shit it. I’ll show you! We are in El Calafate! The airport was super cool, it had the lake… I mean, you could see the lake from the airport with the super blue water…

We can’t check in yet because it’s too early and now we’re going downtown to ask for the excursions and to eat because we have not eaten anything since 2 in the morning, when we woke up to take the remis. I’m very happy. Let’s start eating with some crazy empanadas.

Basically, we’ve been asking for information all morning. We have already chosen the excursions we are going to do and you will see them, but I am really looking forward to them. Something that is interesting for you to know is that the information on the Internet is very

Outdated. We wanted to go from here to Bariloche by bus and we couldn’t find it on the internet, so in the end we took flights. And yes there is, but you can only buy it here.

It’s 26 hours or so, it’s uncomfortable, but, come on, if you want to do that itinerary, you can. You’ll see what we’re going to do this afternoon. For now, let’s go eat. – Enjoy it. I ordered a guanaco burger with mashed potatoes and Mario had a

Lamb burger with potatoes too and the bread and everything looked very good. Good morning! And I say good morning because we took a nap. We are refreshed right now and waiting for the bus or the van or whatever to come pick us up because we are going to do this excursion.

The first excursion of our stay in El Calafate: “I lived an afternoon in the countryside in the heart of El Calafate.” Activities included: bonfire with fried cakes, carter coffee, sheep herding, corral work, shearing demonstration, tour of the organic garden and tasting of mountain wine and confit lamb at the viewpoint of the stream.

It cost us 8,500 per person, which today is about 30 euros per person plus less, I think. Our first excursion in El Calafate was an absolute success. We loved the tour of the ranch, the information was very interesting, it was great structured… 10 out of 10. We went to

The ranch on May 25 and they welcomed us with fried cakes and carter coffee… They did a sheep herding demonstration with dogs… – Come on, when the next furry one comes I’ll help you. Here it comes, come on. That! A round of applause for our manager! From shearing sheep with scissors…

– If we don’t shear it will most likely die. And why would it die, if it is natural for it to grow wool? Humanity has deformed this genetics by mixing it with other races so that it produces better wool, so that it adapts to the places where it was taken. Today he doesn’t

Change his hair anymore. In a year it will produce between 3 to 6 kg of wool. Imagine 3 years without shearing with a 15 kg sweater. Even though it’s not that hot, wearing a 15kg sweater

Will dehydrate you. When dehydrated, you become weak. If he gets weak, he won’t walk. And if he doesn’t walk he doesn’t eat. And we tried Patagonian lamb and mulled wine. – It is lamb cooked with black sugar, onion… Mulled wine with toast, with lamb. We are happy. The tour is highly

Recommended, very good. I’m very happy. – We are on the Merino sheeps tour. They talk a lot about Merino sheep and Mario is obsessed. In fact, we wear a lot of clothes that are Merino. Look, to start Mario is wearing the Merino hat and neck warmer,

Which my parents gave him for his birthday last weekend. Then, the Merino jacket you’re wearing, the T-shirt… – Wait a minute. – It’s Merino, and the socks? – No. – Not today… Fatal. – And the Merino underwear too. I am a Merino. – The tour is perfect,

It is perfect. And now we go to the greenhouse. Later we went to the organic garden and they explained to us about some of the typical plants of the area, such as calafate. – Nobody plants calafate and it is not

Sow because the seed is like a stone, it is very hard for it to germinate. A bird has to eat it and shit it. If a bird doesn’t screw up it doesn’t grow, let’s say, yes. – This is an organic greenhouse. There are no chemicals here, there are no insecticides. We plant

Many brightly colored flowers so that insects choose the flowers and not the vegetables. We bought empanadas and yogurt and we were going to go to the lake to eat them, but on the way to the lake we passed an Ice bar, an ice bar,

And then we decided that we better go to the ice bar and tomorrow we go to the lake. And I really want to. It’s going to be my first time in an ice bar. So we’re eating the empanadas on the floor here because now we’re going to the ice bar.

I really want… I really want. We do a lot of cool things! I am very happy to be here. – The lamb empanada: crazy. – See you at the bar! We arrived at the ice bar. – We’re back. *Laughs* – It can’t be.

We found the ice bar to be quite fun. Absolutely everything was ice, there weren’t many people as you see in the video, but we didn’t need much to have a good time and we had a great time playing with the ice.

– It’s very cold and they have dressed us up as the yeti. We ordered some drinks in ice glasses. – Two fernet cola please. And we had them over this ice bar counter. We survived without freezing and returned to street temperature. The experience has been fun and what

Surprises me most now is that we left at 10:30 and it is daylight. Very strong. – Morning guys. – It’s like 7-7:30. – We are on the way to the glaciers. I’m really looking forward to this excursion. We have

Booked an all-day excursion in which they pick us up at the hotel and we go to the Glacier National Park to the entrance, we pay separately for the entrance, then we go to a boat, we are on the boat for about 7 hours, we have like 7 hours

Of navigation and then we go to different glaciers: Upsala, Spegazzini, blah blah blah, others that I don’t know… And then we go to Perito Moreno and there we get off the boat and we have about

A couple of hours on the platforms and then we They bring us back to the hotel and around 8 we arrive. As you can see, the road was somewhat bumpy, but we finally reached our destination. – We have arrived at Los Glaciers National Park, we are going to buy the ticket here.

– Welcome to Los Glaciares National Park. – We are preparing to embark on this second boat, the name Turquoise Mary, to navigate these waters. – And the water is super blue… Wow. – We are the first. Good morning. Mario is behind the camera making me laugh like when you want to take a

Photo of a baby. But well, I have come here now to tell what the excursion cost. We paid 41,000 pesos for the excursion and then 4,000 pesos to enter the national park. I thought it was cheaper for me because I was Argentine, but since I don’t live here, no, so…

I gave him my ID and he looked at it from behind and told me: “but you live in Spain” and I said “yes” and says: “4000 pesos.” So, well, in total 45,000 pesos divided by what we changed the money for the last time, it comes out to €140 per person,

But the tour itself has not yet started and it is already worth it because… ” Hello hello”. If you come, bring layers. Layers that you can take off because… It’s so hot. I mean, I just took off my pants. This is horrible. It is too hot. We don’t move.

– Carla, don’t go to a glacier on your period. Mario is laughing because he says when my period comes I get hot flashes and here we are, on the glaciers… Mario needs more attention. – What do you want? – It’s crazy. It’s too windy! I think we turn inward.

As we sailed through Lake Argentino, we became more and more amazed by the landscape. These glaciers formed over thousands of years, accumulating compacted snow that turned into ice. – It’s the best day of my life! In addition to Perito Moreno, there are other impressive glaciers such as Upsala

And Spegazzini. The Spegazzini glacier stands out for its impressive front of vertical ice that rises up to 135 meters above the water level. On the other hand, the Upsala glacier is one of the largest in the region, with an area of ​​approximately 870 square kilometers, and is known for its

Enormous ice walls that reach heights of up to 60 meters above water level. This is the second glacier we have seen (the first was very small) and okay, it is huge, but it is 135 m high… And Upsala is almost 800 square km… What??

It’s time to get off the boat to walk around a bit. If you come with children they can stay here in the guard. – Why didn’t we go here? – Because you are 30 years old. – 30 physical years, but 3 years in my “pumpkin”. – In the head.

Mainland. – You are in Los Glaciares National Park hiking. Halfway through the tour we got off the boat to walk a little and continued to be amazed by the landscapes. We are approaching Perito Moreno, which is the most famous glacier in all of Patagonia,

And with this the boat trip will end. Many people continue by boat back, but we choose the option that we think is more complete because we get off and have a couple of hours on the platforms. And I really want to. The excursion has been

Great. 100% recommendable. Both yesterday and today. A fantasy, a fantasy. After eating, as in the time they give you to eat, there is about an hour and a half of browsing without information. So, if you want, I recommend bringing some music.

We haven’t played music and it has been very romantic. So if you want, it’s an idea. – But before returning to the port, we will end up along a channel called Canal de los Tempanos, to see the most famous glacier in this national park, which is the Perito Moreno glacier,

Where we will end there seeing its front about 300 m from it. – Bye thank you. Now we come to the second part of the tour, which is the walkways. So basically we have about 4km of walking along these walkways, seeing,

Well, the glacier from different angles, arriving at some platforms and here we walk. The Perito Moreno Glacier is special because it continues to advance, growing around 2 meters per day. Additionally, it is one of the few glaciers in the world that is still in balance,

Meaning it is not retreating. It is so large that it has an area of ​​more than 250 square kilometers. These glaciers are not only beautiful but are also important for understanding climate change, as they show how rising temperatures are affecting glaciers around the world.

And with this piece of view we say goodbye to Perito Moreno. – What grade do you give, Mario, to Perito Moreno from 0 to 10? – 2. – How funny, how funny! What do you notice? – 10 out of 10. – That’s what I was waiting for. See you at the hotel.

It’s 10 at night and here we are walking in daylight… Very strange. Closing the day well, with good company and good food. Good morning guys. Wow, what hair. We have already checked out at the hostel and now we are going to the

Supermarket to buy food that we need for the next few days of camping. At noon we have a bus that goes to El Chaltén, but since it is a much smaller town, we have read on the internet that it is better to do the shopping here and off we go.

This supermarket is super well prepared for camping. There are soups, more purees, there are also powdered sauces for pasta, they have ramen, they have some mixes here to make vegetable burgers that don’t take up anything and are powdered… It’s great, it’s great. Taking a walk to see the lake.

That same day we went to El Chaltén and spent some amazing days camping in some of the most beautiful landscapes we have ever seen, but we still had one activity left to do in El Calafate. So before flying back to Buenos Aires, we made an

Express stop and spent another night there. Let’s move forward a few days in time. There is an ice cream called Calafate ice cream because it has the fruit of the calafate tree, which is like a blueberry. It’s the one down here. And if you eat it you’re supposed to come back and

I ate it the last time I was there and I’m back, so here I am eating another one to go back, because I love this place, but it looks like I’m going back without Mario because Mario isn’t having ice cream. – Because? – Oh, oh… – We’re back together.

The man who didn’t want ice cream… There you see him. We came to the Glaciarium on a free transfer and now we are going to enter. We went to the Glaciarium, which is an interpretation center dedicated to the study and preservation of glaciers, and we found it super interesting.

We learned about the formation and movement of glaciers, as well as their importance for the ecological balance of the planet. We’re leaving El Calafate. We are going to Buenos Aires to spend Christmas with my parents and my grandmother before continuing with our trips.

And we returned to Buenos Aires to spend Christmas with the family, something I value even more since I live traveling. – Mario is going to try the cheese with sweet potato candy. – Mario leaves, Mario runs away, he doesn’t want to. – Is good. – Is good.

– It’s good, Mario. – It’s delicious, yes, yes. It reminds me of my childhood. I hope you liked the video and see you in the next one, this time in El Chalten. Until then, happy week!

Después de unas semanas geniales en Buenos Aires, pusimos rumbo al sur para seguir con nuestro viaje por #Argentina. Primera parada: #ElCalafate. Como apreciaréis en el vídeo, nos encantó todo de este lugar.

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0:00 – intro
1:50 – estancia 25 de mayo
6:38 – bar de hielo
8:56 – Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
15:29 – Perito Moreno
18:22 – en el pueblo
20:50 – glaciarium
21:20 – Navidad en familia