Flamingos and Pizza from Arg to Chile

After arriving back in El Calafate we decided to stay at a place with a little more going on than Grandmas house and moved into our luxurious dorm rooms at Che Legarto. Luxurious, that is, if you mean teeny tiny with no room to breathe. Regardless, we had some really helpful staff, a hot shower, a sloping pool table and beer. What more could you ask for!

Had an early wakeup for our trip to Glaciar Moreno. Indredible glaciar with boardwalks at every height and every angle. Every few minutes (usually when we were walking between view point) you would hear a gunshot or the sound of a car backfiring,and then thunder as huge chunks of the ice fell away into the ice cold lake below. Amazing site to experience, despite the lack of Baileys on ice.

While the trip was supposed to be for 6 hours we finished taking our hundreds of similar photos from slightly different viewpoints and had 3 hours to spare before our friendly fellow bus tourists (from india) knocked on the window to inform us that the bus was here. Pretty funny to suddenly hear the indian accent in the middle of Argentina, ¨we go Ushaia tomorrow. Is end of world!¨

After Moreno we had a free hot chocolate at a very cute little shop and then ran into the tour group we had met in El Chalten for dinner. Had a very large, juicy, red, argentinian steak (about 1lb for 45 pesos). After a few beers with the group it was an early night and an early rise for our bus ride from El Calafate to Puerto Natales, CHILE! We started off with a very confused bus boarding with us getting completey settled and ready to go before we were told we would suddenly have to switch buses.... even though they were both going to the same place. Nice little trip through past a few towns and lots of country side. Passed the odd site of flamingos in a dirty black pond across from a coal mine.

Another day another country. Chile is beautiful. Great first impression with our first meal being in a small Pizza spot with an amazing pale ale from a local microbrewery, a delicious pizza, and the best fettucini pasta (homemade and cut to order) that I have ever had. After such an amazing meal I decided to splurge and have dessert. Apple cobbler with fresh cream and some gooseberry ice cream. Delicious. Total: CH$18,000... about USD$37.

Boarding our Puerto Eden ferry tonight at 9pm with a 6am departure tomorrow for our trip around the fijords up to Puerto Montt and then across the border back into Argentina to Bariloche (chocolate capital!!)

Incidentally I am having the same problem as before in India with nobody (even other travellers) knowing where Bermuda is so I have taken to carrying around a small map of the world to show. Came in handy today when the border control had no record of a ´Bermuda´existing on her list of countries. Ingles! Ingles!