We left Torres Del Paine National Park on 22nd October and headed back to Argentina. Luckily the border was quiet and we got across quickly. Our orange bus pictured below on the Chilean side of the border. Once through this point we drove about 5km to the Argentinean border post and completed border crossing formalities again.

We stopped outside this Argentinean Estancia to change buses.

Then more of the Patagonian Steppe.

This time we saw a grey fox.

The main purpose of coming to El Calafate was to visit the Perito Moreno Glacier in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares (www.parquesnacionales.gob.ar/../pn-los-glaciares/). We took a boat out to the front of the south side of the glacier.

Then we walked along the impressive viewing platforms along the coast.

The ice at the bottom of the glacier can be very dirty having scraped along the ground for many years. Unlike many of the other glaciers, this one is not retreating and has actually grown over the last century. This is due to the high volume of snow landing at the top of the glacier. It is one of the fastest moving glaciers.

This Crested Caracara has become used to the visitors.

The walkways provide excelleny views of the north side of the glacier as well.

There are about 4km of walkways around the glacier.

From El Calafate, we headed to EL Chalten – the final stop on our Patagonian trip.