To El Calafate

 The High Street of Ushuaia looking east.

Typical residential street.

Our flight to El Calafate.

 The Alto Calafate Hotel.

And the view from the parking lot.

 Enjoying the local.

 With a guanaco steak.

 The pool in the hotel...

 The lobby...

and the dining room where we had our included breakfasts.

Monday, November 18^th.

We had a leisurely breakfast and then packed up. We were picked up by a large coach, for only the two of us! The airport was small and modern and the wait passed quite quickly. The flight was all of an hour and we arrived in El Calafate by 1:00. We were picked up and transported to a very large upscale hotel, the Alto Calafate, on top of a hill overlooking the town. The view was amazing out over the town to the snow-capped Andes. We checked in and since the weather was quite warm and sunny, we took advantage of the hotel shuttle for the 10-minute drive into town wearing just a t-shirt. We walked up and down the high street before deciding on a nice restaurant where we had a late lunch of guanaco steak (an animal closely related to the llama) and grilled vegetables and a large Patagonia beer. Then we walked around a bit more, found a café for a coffee while waiting for the shuttle back to our room.

We both made use of the great 25 metre pool here and then went to the hotel bar for a beer before turning in early in anticipation of tomorrow.