Andean Patagonia

Nimes Lagoon: virgin fauna less than a mile from downtown El Calafate

Nimes Lagoon it's a fauna reservation that is located only 1 km away from El Calafate commercial center. Great variety of birds such as flamingoes, black necked swans, ducks, silver macaes, among others. It's an ideal place to be visited...

Otto Hill

Surrounded by lakes Nahuel Huapi and Gutierrez, Otto Hill is for sure worth a visit: the  cableway to the top and the views you get  from the spinning cafeteria at the top are unforgettable.  And just a step away from...

Lake Roca, Estancia Anita, and Huyliche

Lake Roca is ideal for fishing brown trouts, rainbow trout, salmon and perca between November and March. Besides, you can spend the day or the night there since there is a camping area. First you have to take route 15 and...

Center of Historical Interpretation of El Calafate

The Center of Historical Interpretation of El Calafate is a museum designed to reflect the latest trends in historical research This museum enables us to take a true trip into the past of the region, from the age of the...

Punta Walichu: a place with a magical aura

Punta Walichu is a historical and archaeological site is located 9 km. away from El Calafate. Walichu or Gualicho is the name of a Tehuelche deity. And this name suits perfect this place because it has a magical ambience. It consists...

Los Glaciares National Park

The Glaciers National Park, created in 1937, is the kingdom of continental ices and the Glaciers. It comprises 2320 square miles in the southwestern part of Santa Cruz Province. In the imposing heart of Southern Patagonia, where the wind whispers...

Tragic Patagonia: The Massacre of Estancia Anita

When people visit El Calafate and the Perito Moreno Glacier they often aren’t conscious that they are walking on a land that carries with it a terrible social and political history that was one of the worst moments for Argentina. ...

Climate change: In Cold Blood

The receding Viedma Glacier and the loosening of a 415 square km (160 sq mi) iceberg from Antarctica have reactivated worldwide alarm on climate change effects and brought to the table the issue of man’s moral responsibility for this process. Countries' energetic and industrial...

Nahuel Huapi National Park

It is the largest of the National Parks in the area, covering 705,000 hectares, and also the first one. It was created in 1934, after the land donation made in 1903 by Perito Francisco P. Moreno. It shelters an ecological...

Route 40, pure adventure

Route 40 runs alongside the Andes from la Puna until reaching the Glaciers of the South.  It is mythical for many reasons. For the solitary stretches it crosses. For the peaks of the Andes that guard the route like centennials....