Sunday, July 5, 2009

Los Glaciares National Park.

Los Glaciares National Park is the second largest in Argentina and runs for 170km (106 miles) along the border with Chile. This place is very popular due to rugged mountains and clear lakes.

Some 40 per cent of the Park’s 6600 sq km (2548 sq miles) is covered by vast ice fields that hold 47 major glaciers. The largest glacier is Upsala, but the most popular is the mighty Moreno glacier, where massive chunks of ice shear off and fall into Lago Argentino, the largest lake in Argentina, to form icebergs.

You can view the advancing Moreno glacier from catwalks and platforms. So, have a look at these fantastic mountains and lakes and enjoy the life....

To visit this place, you can go by Air using Ministro Pistarini Airport (Buenos Aires) or El Calafate International Airport.

By Road, you can use Services to the bus terminal on Avenida Julia Roca (from El Calafate); services to El Calafate (from Río Gallegos). Car: Provincial Route 5, National Route 40 and Provincial Route 11 (from Río Gallegos).