iguazu waterfalls

iguazu falls are actully a few dozens of waterfalls , very wide, 80 meters high.

the biggest stream is called - graganto del diablo (the devil´s throat).

bye bye gatques!!!

we went back to the warm north of argentina, to iguazu waterfalls. iguazu parque has the largest waterfalls in the world. it is a huge parque, it spreads over both brazil and argentine, so we dedicated a day to each side.

we saw lots of tropical animals :)

El Chalten & Fitz Roy

we had an awful weather in El Chalten (wind blowing at 108 kph, -3 degrees), so we spent 1.5 days playing remi with 2 new israeli friends - dorit and eyal (in the picture). on the second day we had enough - we just had to trek! so we went to a 6 hours trek in a snow storm!

torres del paine

we crossed the border to chille, to a small sleepy town called puerto natales.

chille is muy expensive!! it was worth it because we had a lovely weather in the national parque torres del paine. the parque has 4000 guanacos (an undomesticated kind of Lama), waterfalls, caves, glaciers, but the most amazing view is of big steep granit hills , that are called - torres.

Glacier "Perito Moreno"

the next day we went to see the famous "breaking glacier".

this glacier is still growing and moving, so all the time it has pieces of it breaking and shattering into the water every once in a while.

first we took a boat trip to get in front of the galcier and to see the crashes from up close - it`s impossible to get it on camera, so what we have is the piece that arose from the water after the fall (this is the big blue one).

after that we went up to some viewing points and just gazed at the amazing glacier from those nice "balconies" wowing all the time and waiting for a major break.

todos glacieros

we took a katamaran (big yacht) to sail between 7 huge glaciers near El-Calafate.
the size of upsala glacier is 4 times bigger than the city of buenos aires!
the pictures speak best for themselves...

The welsh ppl of Patagonia

as strange as it sounds, the are a lot of welsh ppl here .

they imigrated more than a century ago to argentina in order to save their tradition after the british didn´t allow them.

here we are in a traditional tea house drinking... tea... and eating a lot of cakes. notice the kneated sweater on the tea-pot :)