I hitch-hiked here from El Calafate, where I was staying in a small hostel for a few days. Once I had walked to the main road from town it didn’t take me long to get a ride. A few locals passed by and indicated that they were turning off shortly up the road so they couldn’t stop for me – it seemed as though people actually wanted to pick you up here. A short time later, two young women from Belgium in a rental car picked me up. We toured around Glaciers National Park together, and since we seemed to be on a similar itinerary for the day, they invited me to tag along for the return trip to El Calafate, too.
The park is located in the Argentinian Patagonia range in the Andes Mountains, Perito Moreno is a 250 km2glacier that is over 30 kilometers in length. It’s part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field and is one of the very few glaciers in the world that is currently increasing in size.
It’s difficult to tell from just a photo, but the tongue of ice that rises above the surface of Argentino Lake averages 74 meters in thickness.
Location: Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Santa Cruz, Argentina