Calafate Excursions What you can not miss!

Here are some tours in Calafate you can not lose, are highly recommended!

Highlights: Glacier Perito Moreno, unique natural spectacle

This glacier bears a striking and curious phenomenon, in which the great mass of ice moving continuously, causing the accumulation, rupture and release of giant blocks of ice in front of 5 km wide, located on the Canal of the Icebergs: there is where you navigate the many fragments of the glacier.

Their huge progress successfully crossed the Channel of the Icebergs in 1947, as he leaned on land at the tip of the Magallanes Peninsula, wiping out the forest of beech. Becoming a gigantic dam, cut off the natural drainage of the entire southern part of the lake, the Brazo Rico.

This extraordinary natural phenomenon gives rise to growth in the level of water from Lake Argentino, causing a drop of almost 20 meters. The tremendous pressure on the glacier fracturing occurs and ends leaks undermine and eventually breaking.

The breakup and subsequent gradual leveling of the waters, is a moving spectacle, unique in the world, which is repeated every 3 or 4 years, attended by thousands of people around the world.

Highlights: End of the World Train

Located 8 km west of the city of Ushuaia is the "World's End Station?, Thence partly Southern Fuegian Railway train. The Coast Railway steam locomotives and elegant car heated and large windows. Because of its low environmental impact, is now the only ecological environment that allows to visit an inaccessible part of Tierra del Fuego National Park. The total travel distance is about 14 km (round trip), and the duration is 1 hour 40 minutes when performed in full, or 50 minutes if the stretch is just one way. The train service has bilingual guide.

The Tren del Fin del Mundo has a historical significance, between the years 1902 and 1947 worked in the city of Ushuaia Jail recidivists and in its first years of operation of the timber supplied abundant in beech forests near the city ​​to be used for fuel and construction. The train started very early on it to transport the prisoners and guards, and into the woods for prisoners began their task of cutting timber. By late afternoon the train loaded again, carrying the wood necessary to build the prison and heating

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