el calafate

okay so i haven't been spending too much time online since we changed our working hours and also have been taking day trips on the weekend. i am going to try and finally get through the rest of the fotos from our trip south so that i will be up to date and you can see the most recent photos

08.12.

here are my fotos from el calafate, where we spent the day after the glaciar trek. we slept in and made omelette for breakfast. then sat around in a cafe in the sun for a long time. it was really hot and sunny. we walked to the laguna nimez, which is a bird reserve. its free, you can just walk in...first i smeared a bunch of sunblock in my eye though, which really stung badly and meant i was half-blind for 30 minutes while my eye watered. after that i finally got to see flamingos! we walked around the lake, trying to get closer to the flamingos, but they kept moving away from the shore as soon as we got close. stupid birds. it would have been the perfect opportunity to use the telefoto lens i wanted to buy on ebay before leaving berlin. behind the reserve, the fence was down and we walked directly up the the Lago Argentino, largest lake in Argentina, straddling the border with Chile. it was really shallow and there were more flamingos too.