Here again, the Andes cordillera present the traveller with an awesome spectacle. Impressive glaciers coming off the Southern Ice Shelf, (total surface area is 17.000 km2) the only remains, in the southern hemisphere, of the last glacial period.

The main (and only) town in the area, Calafate, is over eight hours South of Buenos Aires, three and a half hours on a plane to the town of Rio Gallegos, on the Atlantic coast and then over 4 hours across the semi-arid and lonely Patagonian steppes, the real Patagonia! You can visit three or four glaciers, each different from the other and well worth the visit.

This is wilderness at its best. Declared a World Heritage by UNESCO.