With absolutely beautiful scenery and great weather, this was by far the best day of the tour. We visited Los Glaciares National Park and the Perito Moreno Glacier. The park has multiple wooden/metal catwalks that are fairly easy to navigate, and visitors can get different views/perspectives of this spectacular glacier. Wildlife sightings were virtually nonexistent, although we could hear birds nearby.
We were fortunate enough to witness a large glacier calving (the breaking of an ice chunk from the edge of a glacier). I couldn’t get a good picture of it, but one of my fellow travelers shared this video taken with his phone:
After having lunch in the park, we returned to the hotel, where I rested before dinner. We ate at the Casimoro Bigua Resto in downtown El Calafate, where we were entertained by musicians, singers and dancers.
We noticed a lot of dogs roam the streets of El Calafate (but they don’t look like strays); they appear to be looking for handouts as they stick their heads hopefully in doorways.
“Got any leftover pizza?”See more photos: