We spent a couple of days in Calafate, Argentina on the edge of Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. Calafate is cute in a chocolate-shop-and-travel-agency-every-two-feet kind of way. There is expensive camping and expensive pizza and expensive everything else, so what’s not to like? On our first night we treated ourselves to a parilla libre (free grill), aka all you can eat chorizo, morcilla and lamb. Knowing Macky and I, you can imagine that we ate our 70 pesos worth.

The next day we did the Calafate thing and took a boat to see a Glaciar Perito Moreno. This was pretty fantastic and also pretty fucking freezing. Yes it’s summer down here, and yes it’s light out until 10:30 pm but neither of these things matter much when you’re 600 miles from Antarctica and the wind is over 100 km/hr. But we did see a glacier and it was as impressive as advertised–a 70 meter tall wall of blue ice surrounded by snow capped peaks. After all, Calafate is an international tourist destination for a reason. Here is some photographic evidence.