Visiting in El Calafate

Here I am again...let's keep up writing about my journey.

The bus from Puerte Natales took about five hours, so for us really just a stone's throw away, and arrived at 11:30 pm at the bus terminal in El Calafate. Gabriel, the friend of Martha who was able to host us for some days, picked us up and went with us to a hospedaje in the center where he accommodated us. After eating dinner and talking a little bit, Martha and me were really tired and went to our Hospedaje to sleep.
The next day Gabriel went with us to the museum about the history of Calafate and spontaneously to one of the most important "Estancias" (Ranch) of Calafate, where we spent the rest of the day learning about traditional things on a ranch. For dinner we had a real good tasting barbecue with a danceshow inclusive. The sister of Gabriel dances traditional dances of Argentina and often has to dance for tourists etc.
The next morning we got up at 6:30 am to get a bus to the glacier "Perito Moreno". Since Gabriel managed to organize a car, we weren't in a big hurry anymore and slowly made our way to the Nationalpark. The time we won by taking the car, was lost the next hour trying to fix the car (which ran hot) and to pull us out of the road ditch (Straßengraben) Gabriel parked us in :D Since we couldn't fix the car a friend of Gabriel took us to the lookout of the glacier and we stayed there for some hours, watching a listening the Perito Moreno. It was incredible!! That thing is huge! At times you can see parts of ice falling off of the glacier making loud noises while falling into the water. It' so awesome :)
In the afternoon we also took the boat that takes you directly to the glacier and droves right along its side.
After getting back to Calafate (some chilean guys took us with them) we learned a little bit more about glaciers in general in the museum. As a surprise Gabriel also took us to the Glacier bar. A really cool place where everything is made of ice. The walls, the bar, the chairs and even the cups you are drinking out. We got special clothes before we went in but after half an hour we were too cold to stay any longer ;) pretty cool experience though!
In the evening we had dinner at his familys house and about 1am went to our hospedaje to sleep.
The next day Gabriel showed us the city. We went to another Muesum, ate "Calafate"-ice cream, which is made of the Calafate-fruit, which grows everywhere around it, and had a Tango lesson the evening. The Tango here is really different from the one I learned in Germany. It looks so awesome if you are able to dance it :-P
After our Tango lesson two of his friends went with us to one of the birthday parties of the city, where we listened to some traditional music and watched people dancing the traditional dance of Argentinia.
Since we had to wake up early the next morning to check out, we went to our hospedaje after that and slept(it was already 3 or 4 am in the morning, not that late for argentinien standards ;).

That was our stay in Calafate...the next post is going to be about our trip to Ushuaia-el fin del mundo (the end of the world)

See ya :)