We stopped briefly for breakfast and then finally arrived in El Calafate by lunchtime. A taxi to the hostel was included in the price, and although it wasn’t far it was up quite a hill so we were glad not to be carrying our bags!! The hostel was pretty good, we were staying in a dorm due to the prices of rooms being prohibitively expensive, but it was only a four bed dorm, so was ok. The view from the hostel across Lago Argentino was fantastic, the lake was the most magnificent colour of turquoise ever!! The very friendly lady at the hostel explained all the options for going to see the Moreno glacier, and we opted for going on a tour in the afternoon. A tour supposedly included a walk round a trail which was not accessible otherwise, and the afternoon suited us better because most people go in the morning, so it would be much quieter. We decided not to buy our ticket until the morning though, just in case the weather turned bad.

A long time ago, back at Iguazu falls, we’d bought a plane ticket to Ushuaia from Rio Gallegos, at the bottom of Patagonia. This was before we’d researched it properly though, and it turned out the there was nothing in Rio Gallegos to see really, and it was a five hour bus ride away. While talking to the hostel lady about our future plans, she told us that we could change our ticket to fly from El Calafate for $25, not much more than the bus fare to Rio Gallegos. We were dead pleased by this, and went off to the airline office to get our tickets changed. It turned out though that she’d neglected to mention that we would also need to pay the difference in the fares, a mere £45 each!!! Rio Gallegos was firmly back on the itinerary!! We had a look around the town, and to be honest there wasn’t an awful lot to it, it was mostly tour companies, souvenir shops and the inevitable steak houses!! It was becoming apparent that El Calafate was a one attraction town, so we headed to the supermarket for