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Tte. V. Feilberg 119, El Calafate, Province of Santa Cruz, 9405, Argentina
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I have heard that some parts like El Chalten are closed in August and am wondering if I should still book flights down to see the glaciers?
It is winter there and as such very low season for tourism so you will find some places that are more tourist oriented closed for the season. But if you don't mind the weather, then go ahead and visit there. Check this web site for more information and if you have doubts about whether things of interest might be open or closed just contact the local tourism office which you can find a link for at this site as well http://www.welcomeargentina.com/elcalafate/index_i.html
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Go there for a coffe or a drink and the possibility to read a lot of excelent books ina warm place!
"Borges and Alvarez", Paseo de los Gnomos ( Av. El Libertador 1003) (I'm not completelly sure)
The owner is a friend of mine, Diego.
La tierra patagónica se pobló y desarrolló a través de la oveja , que se adaptaba a sus tipos de pastos y a su clima .
La carne , la lana y la leche de las ovejas sigue siendo hoy en día una de las principales fuentes de riqueza de la Patagonia
The Patagonian land it was populated and developed thanks to the sheep , that it adapted to the type of grasses and to the climate
The sheeps meat , the wool and the milk are nowadays one of the main richness sources of Patagonia
At Punta Walichu there is a reconstruction of a kau, a Tehuelche tent. The Tehuelches were nomads and hunters; the guanacos (a kind of llama) and American ostrichs were their main boar; they were not fishers, because the Lake Argentino has cloudy waters, and the fishes are not abundant. They used to hunt with arcs and arrows, and with boleadoras (stone balls tied with leather belts). The guanaco furs were used as house and cloth.
En Punta Walichu hay una reconstrucción de un kau, un toldo Tehuelche. Los Tehuelches eran nómadas y cazadores; los guanacos y los ñandúes eran sus alimentos principales; no eran pescadores, dado que las aguas del Lago Argentino son turbias y los peces no abundan. Cazaban con arco y flechas, y con boleadoras (bolas de piedra atadas con tientos de cuero). Las pieles de cuanaco eran utilizadas como casa y vestimenta.
El Calafate is a small town situated at Province of Santa Cruz, at the Patagonian steppe, in the middle of nowhere...
The Province of Santa Cruz is really huge; its area is 244.000 Km2 (Italy is 294.000), and it has only 200.000 inhabitants. The capitol city is Rio Gallegos, situated at the Atlantic coast. El Calafate is 300 Km far from Rio Gallegos; it has 8.000 inhabitants, and it is a really tourist place, because it is quite close to one of the most beautiful places on earth: Los Glaciares National Park.
El Calafate es un pueblito situado en la Provincia de Santa Cruz, en la estepa patagónica, en el medio de la nada...
La Provincia de Santa Cruz es realmente enorme; su superficie es de 244.000 Km2 (Italia tiene 294.000), y tiene solamente 200.000 habitantes. La capital es Rio Gallegos, situada en la costa atlántica. El Calafate está a 300 Km de Rio Gallegos; tiene 8.000 habitantes, y es un lugar turístico, dada su proximidad con uno de los más bellos lugares de la Tierra: el Parque Nacional Los Glaciares.
Harsh and inhospitable as the climate of this part of Patagonia is for so much of the year, there were people who called it home long before the first European settlers arrived. They were the Tehuelche Indians, whose own name for themselves - Patagones - gave the region its name. A short drive out to the lake's edge about 10km from the shops and hotels of El Calafate will take you back centuries to a time when these hunter-gatherer people left their mark in the shallow caves at Gualichu (the Tehuelche word for "God") . The rock paintings (photos 1 and 2) here may not be in the best condition (some are fairly heavily restored -photo 3, others are actually reproductions -) and there is no great gallery of work such as is found in other parts of the world, but they do date from 4000BC and form part of the universal mystery of this ancient art form.
Life certainly wasn't easy here - imagine living in a kau, the skin tent dwellings (photo 4) of the Tehuelche, when the wind was blowing straight off the lake. You'll find a couple of these reconstructed near the small visitor's centre at Punta Gualichu.
There's a very pleasant cafe with big picture windows that give a fantastic view of the lake and where a delicious hot chocolate by the fire will revive you after the walk along to the caves and the kau. They have an interesting small display about the Tehueche and the natural history of the area.
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Q: Travelling alone "Hi,I am visiting Argentina in November 2011. I want to visit El Calafate but is it safe for a lady to travel all alone and by..."
A: "Yes, it's safe, we've seen ladies traveling alone there without problems.In general people do excursions to Perito Moreno Glacier ( we've made the ice trekking) and a..."
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