Sights in El Calafate
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Museo de El Calafate
In shuffled disrepair, Museo de El Calafate displays arrowheads, stuffed penguins and early photographs. Don’t miss the DVD on view, put on constant rotation at the museum, showcasing the greatest glacial ice ruptures at Perito Moreno in recent years.
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Laguna Nimez
Alongside the lakeshore, north of town, Laguna Nimez is prime avian habitat – and a great place to spot flamingos – but watching birds from El Calafate’s shoreline on Lago Argentino can be just as good.
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Capilla de los Escaladores
This simple chapel of Austrian design memorializes the many climbers who have lost their lives to the precarious peaks since 1953.
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Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
The centerpiece of the southern sector of Parque Nacional Los Glaciares is, without a doubt, the breathtaking Glaciar Perito Moreno, one of earth's most dynamic and accessible ice fields. A low gap in the Andes allows moisture-laden Pacific storms to drop their loads east of the divide, where they accumulate as snow. Over millennia, under tremendous weight, this snow has recrystallized into ice and flowed slowly eastward.
Visiting the Moreno Glacier is no less an auditory experience than a visual one, as huge icebergs on the glacier's face cave and collapse into the Canal de los Témpanos (Iceberg Channel). From a series of catwalks and vantage points on the Península de M…
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