I arrived in Calafate early the next day. Having met a med school student from Ireland, Dara, and a farmer from Cataluña Spain, David, on the aforementioned tumultuous bus ride, we set trail into town for our hostels. After checking in, we decided we’d walk down to the lake and check out the scenery. The lake (Lago Argentina) turns out to be completely frozen in the winter months, so we gave the ice a little test run. Born and bread in Hotlanta GA, it amazed me that a lake could actually freeze to the point that it will bear substantial weight – my European friends laughed at me as I tiptoed around the frozen lake, anticipating falling through the surface any second.
The next day the three of us set out for Perito Moreno Glacier. The sight and size of the glacier leaves viewers absolutely star struck as fragments of the nearly 200 foot tall glacier fall into the lake below causing earthquakelike rumbles.
Buenísima!
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