On March 7, I took a bus from El Calafate to the nearby Perito Moreno Glacier. This glacier is within the same national park that surrounds El Chaltén, hours to the north. Los Glaciares National Park is one of the largest in South America. Perito
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On March 1, I returned to Puerto Natales after completing the ‘W’ Circuit in Torres del Paine National Park. On March 2, I took a bus from Puerto Natales to El Calafate, Argentina, then another to El Chaltén. I will be back to El Calafate,
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On February 20, I took a bus from Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales, about three hours north and gateway to Torres del Paine National Park. Torres del Paine National Park is basically the embodiment of what Patagonian landscape should look like, and is one of
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On February 20, I visited Isla Magdalena, home of Magellanic penguins, situated in the Strait of Magellan, and in the Magellanic region of South America (This place is seriously Magellanic). The island is the breeding ground for a colony of about 60,000 penguins, which
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On February 17, I flew from Puerto Montt to Punta Arenas, a distance of 2200km (1400mi), of which there is hardly anything in Chile, due to inhospitable terrain. In fact, there isn't even a road to southern Chile within Chile; you must go through Argentina
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