At Perito Moreno glacier

Spent two days in El Calafate in Argentina to see the famous Perito Moreno glacier, which is 78km away. El Calafate is a typical touristy town with one big main street where lots of restaurants, souvenir shops and tour agencies are located. But once you left El Calafate on the way to the glacier you are in the wilderness of Patagonia in the Los Glaciares national park... :-)
The Perito Moreno glacier is located at the lake Argentino, is one of the less glaciers which is still expanding and is about 75 meters high! Fu^^ing amazing, eh?
Sometimes it can happen that the glacier totally splits the lake Argentino into two lakes. Then the difference of the water-levels between the two "lakes" can reach up to 30 meters, until the pressure of the water is so high that the ice finally breaks and the 2 lakes reunite to lake Argentino. This phenom happens all 4-5 years and the last one was 2012.
When Derek and me arrived at the glacier, unfortunately the weather was awful. It was raining and freezing cold. But because of the rain I think we could see more often than usual big parts of the glacier calving into the lake...

You also have options to do some ferry ride or some trekking on the glacier. But both options were too expensive for poor backpackers like us, so we did the free boardwalk instead.
It was damn amazing and the boardwalk, to be honest, takes you closer to the glacier than the ferry ever can do. (And who wants to hike on the slippery icy glacier surface on this rainy and cold day...?) :-)

In the evening I went out with 3 girls and had an amazing lamb with red wine for dinner. And guess what, as desert I had a lamb-cake filled with lamb meat. Tasted very weird, sweet and salty at the same time...

The waitress was pretty surprised that I ate the whole cake. She told us afterwards that this cake is normally ordered, tasted, decided as "not eat-able" and left over... :-)

On the next day I made my way to El Chalten, which is said to be the "hiking-Mekka" of Argentia...