Perito Morano Glacier

The first day in El Calafate was spent on a tour of the Perito Morano Glacier. It was truly one of the most amazing natural phenomenons I´ve seen with my own two eyes. The glacier pours for miles out of great Southern Ice Field, past the jagged white peaks of the southern Andes, through an alpine valley, then splits, dumping into two beautiful lakes. The walls of ice are perfectly vertical and you only have to watch for a few minutes to see giant chucks of ice and snow calve off into the lake with a giant roar. We hiked along the lake, then took a boat trip to look up at the blue, turquoise, aqua, indigo and violet light bouncing off and through the ice caves and crevasses. We actually ran out of colors to describe what we were seeing. The glacier's movement was evident by the constant popping, cracking and grinding noises eminating from it. The top of the glacier is heavily crevassed and undulating as far as you can see as the top and bottom move at different speeds. The water surrounding the glacier is full of tiny floating icebergs from the snows' advance into the lakes. It was an amazing site and definitely worth the bus ride! Tomorrow we go "Supertrekking" in El Chalten!

View from the boat!