The Perito Moreno Glacier

Almost immediately, it was time for our appointment with Argentina’s largest water-feature, (well, if you leave out Iguazu and count ice as being fairly watery!): Perito Moreno, perhaps one of the world’s most impressive glaciers. The bus journey took us into the Southern zone of the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, where we boarded a hydrofoil to sail up the Brazo Rico to within 300’ of the massive wall of blue-hued ice and we then explored on foot around the Peninsula Magallanes, which juts into the Largo Argentina, affording many breathtaking vistas of this amazing wonder. As vast chunks of ice calved and plunged thunderously into the freezing, turquoise lake beneath, a gigantic condor swooped on the thermals overhead. Simon had at last fulfilled another of those boyhood ambitions!