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Glacier National Park
Fertile landscape
Ice pieces collapsing
High ice walls
Navigation near the glacier
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This extraordinary tour brings you to the biggest and most important highlight of the Argentine Patagonia region, the spectacular glacier Perito Moreno.
In the amazing “Glacier National Park” you will have the opportunity to see many glaciers, turquoise blue lakes and snow-capped Andean mountain peaks. The glacier is 80km from El Calafate. During this trip, the local guide will have the chance to explain you more about this deserted piece of land at the most southern tip of the continent. During this drive, you will notice the dramatic change in landscape. While in El Calafate everything is dry, harsh, and flat, at the park entrance you will see trees, mountains and green vegetation.
You have reached the foot of the Andes where plenty of rain is falling all year long. Soon you will see the breathtaking Perito Moreno glacier for the first time, the centrepiece of the national park. Due to unusually favourable local conditions, it is one of the few advancing glaciers in the planet. The Moreno glacier merits a visit and you will be highly impressed standing only a few metres away from its 60 to 80-metre-high walls. The deep blue colours of the ice and the shape of the glacier with all its small columns are unbelievable!
But it is also an auditory experience, when huge icebergs on the face of the glacier calve and collapse into the lake. From a series of catwalks and vantage points, visitors can see, hear, and photograph the glacier safely when these enormous chunks crash into the water. Enough time is given to you in order to explore this marvelous spectacle by yourself. You can drive back to El Calafate or take an optional boat tour (not included) to see the glacier from another impressive side. Near the catwalks you take the catamaran and navigate about 300m distance away from the impressive ice walls. After giving you enough time to appreciate the ice giant from the waterfront, the catamaran turns north and sails through the quiet waters of the Channel of the Icebergs. Every now and then you will appreciate the melting icebergs, born on the front side of the glacier and driven away by wind and stream. Afterwards, you drive back to El Calafate. |
