It really was all day. Like 10 hours or more but we got to see lots of super cool icebergs and three more glaciers.
I took hundreds of photos of icebergs alone. They were amazing. And they get bigger and bigger the closer you get to these gigantic glaciers. Seriously, now I understand why the Titanic sank. I always was sorta like, really, it hit an iceberg? How does it sink a huge ship? This is how:
Scale isn't obvious from this image but you could
park several cars on these. Plus look at the
background! Come on! Is there anything prettier?
Blueberry snowcone!
This reminds me of one of those aluminum doggie
bags that are made into weird animal shapes.
OK, now we are getting serious. This thing was HUGE.
You could drive a bus through that hole. This was
bigger than a house. This was half a block or more.
And stories high. I looked on the captain's radar and
you could see how big it was under the water. Only
10-15% of an iceberg is above water. This whole thing
must be 20 stories high or more.
The other side of the same iceberg. This was the
other boat we travelled with. (For safety they travel
in pairs in case there is a Titanic moment.) Granted
the iceberg is in the foreground but still, it's gigantic.
Nothing prepared my brain for the scale of things in Argentina. Everything was huge. It felt prehistoric to me, evolution hadn't come to the landscape yet. Everything was still dinosaur-sized.
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So amazing, majestic, ancient... yes, one does expect to see the dinosaurs or a woolly mammoth in those pictures. What was the tourist quotient like? We Americans don't know much about those wonders, so what kind of folks did you run into?
I would say mostly Europeans(esp. Spaniards), English, Japanese and some Brazilians. Exactly, not many Americans at all. Before we left, many of the 'older' people we told about Argentina seemed befuddled as to why we would bother to go (at our wedding, for example).
We got the feeling that we were visiting just in time: not too much tourism but enough that the infrastructure is good but it hadn't turned into a trinkety, icky kind of place. In 10 years it will, sadly, probably be completely different.
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