On April 28, 2022 while staying in El Calafate, Argentina on my way to a week long fishing trip at Jurassic Lake Lodge, I booked a trip to visit Los Glaciares National Park. The National Park is about a 2 hour drive from Calafate. I was picked up by bus at the Hostel Calafate around 6am. The tour would be by ship and last about 9 hours motoring up to the many glaciers in the park. Los Glaciares covers the region known as Andes Australes of the Argentine Territory. It was created in 1937 to preserve this vast region dominated by glaciers. It is a huge tourist attraction and brings in much revenue to Argentina. The National Park includes a scenario of mountains, lakes, and forests, and a large portion of the Andes Mountains covered with ice and snow to the West and the arid Patagonian steppe to the East.
The numerous glaciers are fed by the massive South Patagonian Ice field, the largest ice field in the Southern Hemisphere after Antarctica. It feeds 47 large glaciers of which 13 decent toward the Atlantic Sea.
The scenery is breathtaking. I took over a hundred photos and probably could have taken over a thousand. Luckily I saw some of the glaciers calf where massive sheets of glacier ice fall off into the lake. Blue tint icebergs were seen floating in the lake. We docked for lunch for about an ice at a Port on the lake which has a cafe. We then boarded after lunch and continued our journey until we docked around 5pm.
There are numerous options on the Glacier Tours. Puerto Moreno is the most famous glacier, trips to El Chalten, The Total Glacier Tour, and others are available. I really liked the Total Glacier tour. Will be heading back to El Calafate this September and for sure another glacier tour is on my list.
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