Perito Moreno is easily accessible by bus from the city of El Calafate, Santa Cruz Province. You can fly from Buenos Aires to the local airport.

Located inside Los Glaciares National Park, you can have a taste of Antactica in a very funny way.

Having about 80 km of extension, this glacier is a tiny tongue of giant Southern Ice Field, a big icefield that cross Patagonia between Chile and Argentina. This region is the third in size in the world. Just Antartica and Greenland is bigger than this icefield.

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Detailed description of the 5-day trekking for now is only in Portuguese, but you can ask me  directly some questions regarding this trekking or try to use the language selected on the portuguese version.

I have been there twice. First, at 2002, to photograph to a tourist agency. Second time at 2017, for doing this trekking. Bellow, you have the text of 2002, but it still gives you an idea about this interesting place.

Brazilian Deserts?

It is even hard to believe but, besides beaches, forests, mountain ridges and the Pantanal swamplands, Brazil still keeps another beautiful and rare scenery for its dwellers and tourists: a desert with scattered fresh water ponds. This region is part of the Lencois Maranhenses National Park which was established in 1981 aiming to protect and study this ecological system. It has become, however, a major tourist attraction.

The Park holds a total area of 1,550sq.km. (i.e. 382,850 acres). There is dune after dune, all carved by the high wind caused by the coming and going of the tides. Notwithstanding its desert-like appearence, Lencois Maranhenses records an annual rainfall of 1600mm (i.e. 62.9 inches). All that water comes down during the well marked rainy season, from January to June.

From July to December, it is time for the dry period, when dozens of ponds drain completely or partially. The miracle in that story lies in the fact that when the ponds fill up again, life comes back. Fishes, crustaceans and turtles reappear as if they had never left the place. For a visit, the best time of the year stretches from May to September, when the natural pools are formed.

The beauty of this cool place is not only in the ponds. The dunes, which sometimes reach up to 20mts or 65 feet, consist of a very white sand. The landscape is in permanent change, and thus no one has the privilege to see the same sight twice.

Besides its “desert”, Lencois Maranhenses has also its mangroves, rivers (where the local, specially adapted boats named “voadeiras” navigate), beaches and, of course, its “natives”. The natives are fishermen who raise their little flocks of cattle to help themselves get by during the dry season, giving the landscape a desert-like/rural flavour.

The Park is located on the coast in the State of Maranhao, between Barreirinhas and Primeira Cruz counties. To get there the visitor may choose travelling by bus or by car for a 10 hour trip, or with a charter flight from Sao Luis (the capital city of that State), towards Barreirinhas.

The touristic spot has little structure, but Barreirinhas has hotels, hostels, restaurants and handicrafts shops. At the mouth of the Preguicas river (which flows accross Lencois Maranhenses area) lies the small village of Cabure, that also has guesthouses and restaurants. In the villages it is possible to appreciate the typical food of the region, to go birdwatching late in the afternoon and to take another boat to continue the trip: a trip with a lot of sand, beautiful sceneries, wind against the face, great food and sympathetic people.

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Fotos, vídeos e textos de Marcelo Ozório.

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The glorious, remarkable, artistic and sacred city of Machu Picchu is the maximum expression left by the Inca Culture.

Employing a refined intelligence, the architects of Machu Picchu managed to group amounts of rocks, harmoniously disposed, on sloping terrains highly mountainous. In an incredible scenery of natural beauty, a city was richly shaped.

More than any scientific, religious or archeological discovery can reveal, the following true is gracefully imposed: when human nature concentrates in Perfection, the result is the production of Beauty, which existence invokes to Human Soul the desire of producing more and more Beauty.

Beauty can not be separated from harmony with Nature, that´s why Machu Picchu is perfect.

Photos, videos and texts by Marcelo Ozorio

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Antillanca is a ski and snowboard winter resort located on the slopes of the volcano Casablanca, about 62 miles from the Puyehue Spa, within the Puyehue National Park. It is located 100 km from the city of Osorno, in the Region of the Lakes (X Region), Chile.

It is practically on the border between Chile and Argentina. On the other side of the Andes, in Argentina, you could easily find Villa Angostura, where the neighboring station of Cerro Bayo is located.

The landscape in Antillanca is exuberant, since the volcanoes Puntiagudo and Osorno are always present, in the background. From the top you can also easily see Puyehue Lake.

Through the cable car that climbs to the highest point, you have a view of the volcano’s crater dome.

NEARBY STATIONS
To the north: Pucon
To the east: Cerro Bayo

Official ski resort link:
http://www.skiantillanca.cl

Photos, video and text by Marcelo Ozorio

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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument – Arizona – 4K (Ultra HD)

Sunset Crater Volcano is an easy place to visit, very impressive, beautiful and you can feel the force of a volcano. There are many cinder cones around the principal and you can walk on the frozen lava. Green pines growing emerging from the lava fields is another great attraction.

Photos, video and text by Marcelo Ozorio

As said in Wikipedia:
Sunset Crater is a cinder cone located north of Flagstaff in U.S. State of Arizona. The crater is within the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument.

Sunset Crater is the youngest in a string of volcanoes (the San Francisco volcanic field) that is related to the nearby San Francisco Peaks.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Crater

As said in US National Park Service:

Sunset Crater Volcano! Roughly 900 years ago, the eruption of this volcano reshaped the surrounding landscape, forever changing the lives of people, plants and animals. Hike the trail through the lava flow and cinders and you’ll likely discover colorful, ruggedly dramatic geological features coexisting with twisted Ponderosa Pines and an amazing array of wildlife.

Read more at https://www.nps.gov/sucr/index.htm

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Ubehebe Crater is impressive and beautiful, easily reached by a good paved road, only 35 miles from Stovepipe Wells at Death Valley National Park , California. The main crater has 1 km of diameter and is surrounded by minors craters. Landscapes are terrific!

Photos, video and text by Marcelo Ozorio

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Considered by many travellers one of the most fantastic and special places to visit, Bryce Canyon is really a gorgeous landscape, located on the state of Utah, USA, inside a national park.

These rock formations are unique and offer a intriguing view for the visitor.

The called hoodoos are odd-shaped pillars of rock carved million years ago by erosion forces like snow, wind, ice, sun light, shadows and running melted water.

You can walk along the upper part of the park and see all the hoodoos and rock formations on a large perspective.

Bryce Canyon is associated with a lot of technical and geological explanation, but for a regular traveller is enough to know it is an awesome part of this beautiful planet Earth.

Photos, video and text by Marcelo Ozorio

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