Hostel Natura in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
Fields by the hostel
Iguazu River above falls
Mist from falls
Brazilian side
Iguazu Falls (Brazilian side)
Garganta del diablo
Observation deck
Birds darting behind falls
Posing below falls
Pretty butterfly
Nice swimming hole if you can get there
The Sheraton Hotel (Argentine side)
View up the Devil's Throat
Walkway and elevator to top of falls (Brazilian side)
Don't look down
Iguana
Bright butterfly
Falls through the trees
The whole Brazilian walkway
Butterfly hitching a ride
Jet boat under the falls
Walkways on the Argentine side
More of the upper circuit
Parque dos Aves next to the falls in Brazil
Macaws
This friendly toucan flew right up to us
Ibis
Alligator
Turtle island
Moth bigger than your hand
Peacock
Some very noisy parrots
New Paraguayan friends
Mist from the spillway at Itaipu Binacional
The spillway has enough capacity for 4x the average flow over Iguazu falls (a strange comparison given that's a separate river, but still)
The main concrete dam in the Itaipu complex has 20 generators (this is Paraguay's half)
Posing in front of the spillway
Itaipu dam panorama
The concrete dam (and diversion channel during construction in the foreground)
The plume at the bottom of the spillway is probably 10 stories tall
Penstock for generator #16
View from Paraguay side
Cicada (the noise was incessant throughout Iguazu)
Brazilian side from Argentina
Wall of water on the Argentine side
The latest craze in turtle headwear
Everyone gets their own butterfly
Above Devil's Throat
Spot the pair of birds
Cormorant taking off
Rainbow over the bottom of the falls
Lago Argentino
The Calafate bush (berries are edible)
Condors circling
Perito Moreno glacier (south face)
Brazo Rico of Lago Argentino (capped off by the glacier at right)
Perito Moreno glacier
The "bathtub ring" around the lake is the level this part of the lake fills up to when the glacier blocks the strait connecting it to the rest of the lake.
Boat tour of south face
Iceberg
On the boat
Beginnings of a tunnel to the rest of the lake
Looking away from the glacier
People trekking on the glacier
View from the visitor center
North face of the glacier
Deep, deep, blue
Fortress of Solitude?
Waterfall over the glacier
Vanessa bundled up
Glacier Panorama
North face panorama
The Iceberg channel (Canal de los Tempanos)
Catwalk
Icebergs
Back to Brazo Rico/south face
View from the $1200/night/person hotel
Birds circling
Lonely house
View from the bus
Viedma glacier
Valle Rio de las Vueltas from El Chalten
Main street, El Chalten
The trailhead for Fitz Roy (aka Chalten)
Rio de las Vueltas
Chorrillo del Salto
Fresh snow in the hills outside of town
Condor in flight
Same condor
In front of the Valle Rio de las Vueltas
Looking back towards Lago Viedma and the Patagonian steppe
Spooky forest
Cerro Madsen and Electrico
Glaciar Piedras Blancas
Snowing!
Vanessa looks for Fitz Roy
Fitz Roy (left, in clouds) and friends
Fitz Roy, Poincenot, St Exupery
Map of our hikes (we did the upper trail the next day)
Piedras Blancas Glacier
Hold on to your hats
Vanessa demonstrating Patagonian wind speed
Lago & Glaciar Piedras Blancas
Keith with Lago Piedras Blancas
Vanessa with Lago Piedras Blancas
Terminal moraine of Piedras Blancas glacier and Rio Electrico (in the distance)
One at a time
Crystal clear glacier melt
Lago Capri
One last look a the glacier
A little light camping
Fitz Roy (taken from our bedroom window...it was there all along!)
North end of town and Valle Rio de las Vueltas
El Chalten and surroundings
Rio Fitz Roy
Cerro Solo
Cerro Torre (hiding)
Follow the waterfall
Glaciar Grande
About the best view we managed of Cerro Torre
About the biggest bumble bee I've ever seen--fully an inch across
Cerro Torre hiding
Lago Argentino and beyond
Laguna Nimez bird sanctuary in El Calafate
Wild flamingos
El Calafate behind the flamingos
Lago Nahuel Huapi (view from Hostel Patanuk in Bariloche)
Rio Limay
Crossing the Rio Limay
Interesting Rocks
Cueva del Caballo
Kids from Washington DC family
Bariloche Centro Civico
Lago Nahuel Huapi
View to the west
Going up the chairlift at Cerro Campanario
View from Cerro Campanario
Lago Nahuel Huapi panorama
Vanessa on top demonstrating windspeed again
Going back down the Teleferico
Hotel Llao Llao
Hotel Llao Llao in Nahuel Huapi National Park
Waterfall
Chapel near Hotel Llao Llao
Recoleta Cemetery
Just a house in Recoleta
Torre Monumental (Formerly Torre de los ingleses, prior to the Falklands war)
Palacio de Paz
Convento Santo Domingo
Semi-permanent protests on Plaza de Mayo
Casa Rosada (the president's office)
Plaza de Mayo
The Metropolitan Cathedral (not a bank!)
Avenida de Mayo
BA City Hall
South of Plaza de Mayo
Franciscan church
Typical building in San Telmo
Monement to the Spanish
Palremo park
Parque Lezama
3-D mural at the entrance to barrio La Boca
Puerto Madero, the hip, happening, ex-warehouse district
Closeup of Santiago Calatrava's Punete de la Mujer (swing bridge)
Puerto Madero over the nature reserve
Vanessa dancing in the park
La Prensa (newspaper) building
Avenida 9 de Julio and the Obelisk
Edificio Barolo
Congress building
Vanessa on the Subte (Line A still has the original wooden cars)
Inside the cathedral
Cathedral dome
Palacio San Martin reflected in new foreign affairs building
Palacio San Martin, now used for state receptions
Interior courtyard
