Argentina

View up the central avenue towards the Obelisco in Buenos Aires.

Multi-coloured houses in La Boca, the oldest part of Buenos Aires.

A young elephant seal playing in the surf at Peninsula Valdes on the east coast of Argentina.

A guanaco in the fields in central Argentina.

Father, mother and pup. An elephant seal family. The males can weigh up to 3 tons.

The tail of a souther right whale off the coast at Puerto Madryn.

The head of a southern right whale, sunlight shining on the spray from its blowhole.

An armadillo scuttling across the sandy Peninsula Valdes.

Alpine flowers in the mountains near Bariloche in the Argentinian lake district.

The church of San Fransisco in Salta in the far northwest of Argentina.

More alpine flowers in the lake district.

The final viaduct on the 'train to the clouds' which runs from Salta to Antofagasta in northern Chile.

View across Fitzroy national park in southern Patagonia. On the left is the spiky peak of Cerro Torre, In the centre the massive granite monolith of Cerro Fitzroy.

Closer view of a cloud-capped Fitzroy - named after the captain of the Beagle.

Cerro Torre and the glacial lake at its foot.

The deep blue lakes of the area around Bariloche, San Martin and Junin de los Andes.

A young horse and its mother in Fitzroy national park.

Glacial bergs bobbing in a lake in Los Glaciares national park, Patagonia.

The awesome Perito Moreno glacier. It's terminal face 70m high.

A higher view of the extent of the Perito Moreno glacier.

Wispy clouds over a lake near Bariloche.

Crimson flowers on a trek near San Martin.

A calm, reflective lake in the Tierra del Fuego national park.

Sunrise at the end of the world. Ushuaia lies just 900kms from Antarctica.


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