Trip to South America, December 2008



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1. Trip start - the signature of Buenos Aires, the obelisk

2. Mum and the Christmas tree

3. The Christmas tree in Galeria Pacifico

4. Puerto Madeiro

5. Old crane in Puerto Madeiro

6. Rowing club at Tigre

7. An amazing artefact; the log of HMS Beagle

8. 1942 GE RADAR; spot the design flaw...

9. Where the above were housed

10. Dusk at El Calafate

11. Summer flora

12. Local stray pup

13. Patagonia has great skies - even at the bus station

14. Foal en-route to El Chalten

15. Geese and goslings at El Chalten

16. Mother goose

17. Goslings

18. Lenga - the Southern Beach

19. Cascada del salto

20. Cascada del salto

21. Rio de las Vueltas

22. One of the mountains in the Cordon de los Condores

23. Horse!

24. RP23 to Lago del Desierto

25. The imposing granite pillar of Mt Fitz Roy

26. The Fitz Roy massif

27. Looking east over the Steppe

28. The infamous Cerro Torre in cloud

29. The Cordon Adela

30. The CordonAdela

31. One of the locals in El Chalten

32. Fitz Roy massif

33. Looking into Valle rio de las Vueltas

34. Maids slipper

35. More alpines

36. Glacial lakes and dust storms

37. The 60 metre ice wall at the snout of Glacier Perito Moreno

38. Looking along the Perito Moreno glacier

39. Glacier Perito Moreno

40. Glimpses of a tiny part of the campo de hielo sur

41. A tantalisingly small part of the worlds 3rd largest ice sheet

42. Sun on glacier Perito Moreno

43. Dust storm at El Calafate

44. Dust and clouds at El Calafate

45. The (in)famous Ruta 40

46. On a boat in Chile

47. Mum about to get wet

48. The other boat - it's getting bumpy!

49. Duck...

50. In the Fioro di Ultima Esperanza

51. Waterfalls at condor cliffs

52. Glacier Balmaceda - used to be at sea level 20 years ago...

53. Glaciar Serrano - 50 years ago there wasn't a lake here...

54. ...and it's quite a big lake now.

55. The two tour boats

56. A very content dog called Panuela

57. Stormy skies again

58. Onto a RIB to continue the trip up the Rio Serrano

59. Mum togged up

60. It's not very warm really!

61. Isolated mountain on the Rio Serrano

62. A slight obstruction...

63. Continuing after the waterfalls; getting rather shallow now

64. Torres del Paine!

65. Torres del Paine from Lago Toro

66. Patagonian skies at Cerro Castillo

67. Wide open space at the Argentine border

68. Our bus, run by Cootra

69. Argentina

70. An old friend returns at El Calafate

71. Uruguayan flowers

72. In Uruguay - Colonia del Sacremento

73. Colonia is a UNESCO heritage site

74. Anchor and palm trees

75. Lighthouse at Colonia

76. Flower!

77. Back in BsAs; the start of the Dakar Argentina-Chile rally

78. A very cool 4x4 for the rally...

79. Skies in BsAs

80. Tango on Calle del Florida

81. Tango

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