Perito Moreno Glacier & the Glaciers National Park(Argentina)

December 2019     itinerary link

We drove out to the Glacier National Park first thing in the morning, and one car was waiting ahead of us at the park gate. At 9AM, we quickly bought the ticket and drove in. After 15-20 minutes, this kind of scenery started appearing. “Wow, let’s park the car. We need to take pictures!” everybody yelled.

5-10 minutes later, we finally arrived at the Perito Moreno Glacier observation center. There were parking lots and a building that contained restrooms, eateries, shops etc.

From there you walk on walkways with wooden railings to get closer to the glacier.

There were only a handful of people at that hour, thus, it was so peaceful and quiet except you could hear the sound the glacier was making as parts of it cracked and splintered.

You can see & hear it!

I never knew it could be such a mesmerizing experience just staring at a gigantic piece of ice! I wanted to stay longer on one hand, but, my fingers were getting frozen. After all, we were standing next to an ice field. And people were pouring in. So we slowly headed back up to the parking lot still stopping every couple of minutes to look back at the glacier named Perito Moreno.

I confess: we have a lot more photos. We will be happy to show them, too.

Flowers were blooming in other parts of the park. By the time we reached our car, tour buses filled up all the parking spots. Good thing we went there early.

Incidentally, there is a town named Perito Moreno hundreds of kilometers away from the glacier. Google map, at one point, showed that for one of my searches. Don’t go there!

Our journey: Puelo -> Puerto Varas -> Puerto Natales -> Torres del Paine National Park –> El Calafate –> Perito Moreno Glacier –> Ushuaia