El Calafate

Leaving Ushuaia we flew to El Calafate a small city that is the jumping off point for many areas to hike. The only thing to see in El Calafate itself is the incredible Glaciar Perito Moreno. This is a glacier that is moving all the time with chunks of ice falling off of it breaking what could be an otherwise quiet moment. The glacier also seems to come out of nowhere as the landscape is very barren in this area. It measures 5 km wide, 35 km long and 70 m high.