Patagonia was our next stop. Two 15 hour bus journeys, and 2 stops at very remote, blustery towns, which sort of reminded us of British seaside towns; Skegness and Worthing in particular!

Patagonia is a very desolate area, with very few towns and very few people living there. It covers a huge area, as we discovered on our bus journeys, but there is very little to see. It is flat with hardly any vegetation. Some sheep and emus were spotted, but very little else. You do feel very isolated and was a complete contrast from Buenos Aires.

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Our destination was a place called El Calafate, which is famous for its glaciers. The glacier we went to see was called the Moreno glacier. It is the third largest in the area, but is the most famous, as it is not getting smaller. It loses huge chunks every day, but it is always advancing as well, so it keeps a stable size all the time. Even though it isnīt the biggest, it could fit the whole of Buenos Aires on it, pretty impressive. It is set in Lago Argentina, which is a beautiful lake, turquoise in colour due to the minerals in the ice which melts into it. Snow capped mountains surround the glacier giving it a perfect scene in which to take many pictures, which of course we did! The actual glacier (as james put it) looks like an enormous lemon meringue pie! Which is exactly what it did look like.

The sounds were incredible. You could actually hear the Glacier cracking and splitting, and when pieces dropped off there would be an almightly crash into the water, sending waves around the lake. Well, enough of the descriptions, hopefully the photographs do it justice, and show the enormity of the glacier...

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