El Calafate
It is a city located in Patagonia, in the province of Santa Cruz, about 80 kilometers from the Perito Moreno glacier. It owes its notoriety to being the central point of tourist activities in the region and the gateway to Los Glaciares National Park, which has tourist attractions such as the Perito Moreno and Upsala glaciers, and the Fitz Roy hill, among others, all owned by from the eastern region of the Southern Patagonian ice field and bordering the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. It has numerous markets, souvenir shops, luxurious restaurants where you can try the traditional Argentine barbecue and breweries where you can taste craft beers made with Patagonian hops. A recommended visit is the La Zorra brewery, with one of the best beer menus in the entire world. world and the Yeti Ice Bar, an ice bar located in the very center of the city whose interior is an ice cavern with walls and a frozen bar counter. Just 5 kilometers west of the urban area, is the Patagonian Ice Museum, a cultural and scientific center inaugurated in 2011, where the latest research on glaciers and their environment is disseminated. In the basement of this, there is the Glacio Bar, unique in the world for being made with glacier ice, it is 80 square meters and an ambient temperature of -10oC. Absolutely everything in this bar is made of ice: the walls, the furniture, the glasses and the bar were made with ice from the glacier.