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Close up views of the ice.

Close up views of the ice.

Various views of the right side of the glacier. In the top photo, that little thing in the water is a huge boat. The glacier is really big, though it’s hard to tell without anything to give some perspective. I kept hoping a group of kayakers would paddle up to the face of the glacier so I could take some pictures showing how little they were.

Various views of the right side of the glacier. In the top photo, that little thing in the water is a huge boat. The glacier is really big, though it’s hard to tell without anything to give some perspective. I kept hoping a group of kayakers would paddle up to the face of the glacier so I could take some pictures showing how little they were.

After the boat, I walked around a series of walkways to various viewpoints in the park. Here is the view of the left (south-east) and right (north-west) sides of the glacier.

After the boat, I walked around a series of walkways to various viewpoints in the park. Here is the view of the left (south-east) and right (north-west) sides of the glacier.

Today I headed to the biggest tourist draw in Patagonia: Perito Moreno Glacier. I think it’s the world’s biggest glacier, or the fastest growing, or something like that. (I didn’t pay for a guide!) It’s about 55 metres tall (160 feet), 5 kilometres wide (~3 miles), and really deep. My tour started with a boat trip that went up to the glacier’s face. The boat can’t get *too* close because the glacier is constantly calving massive icebergs that crash into the water. It was a nice ride, but the boat is annoyingly packed full of tourists, and everyone is trying to take photos simultaneously.

Today I headed to the biggest tourist draw in Patagonia: Perito Moreno Glacier. I think it’s the world’s biggest glacier, or the fastest growing, or something like that. (I didn’t pay for a guide!) It’s about 55 metres tall (160 feet), 5 kilometres wide (~3 miles), and really deep.

My tour started with a boat trip that went up to the glacier’s face. The boat can’t get *too* close because the glacier is constantly calving massive icebergs that crash into the water. It was a nice ride, but the boat is annoyingly packed full of tourists, and everyone is trying to take photos simultaneously.

I hiked out of Torres del Paine National Park, took a bus for three hours back to Puerto Natales, then connected to a bus to Argentina. I stopped in El Calafate to buy some groceries, then connected to a bus headed for El Chalten, the access point for the Fitz Roy mountain range. Along the way I saw blue skies for the first time in a while. By the time I got to El Chalten it was raining again.

I hiked out of Torres del Paine National Park, took a bus for three hours back to Puerto Natales, then connected to a bus to Argentina. I stopped in El Calafate to buy some groceries, then connected to a bus headed for El Chalten, the access point for the Fitz Roy mountain range.

Along the way I saw blue skies for the first time in a while. By the time I got to El Chalten it was raining again.