Yosemite Valley
Yosemite National Park is located in the Sierra Nevada in California. It has an area of 3,027 Km2, is as big as the region of Val d’Aosta (Italy) . One of the most beautiful parts of the Park is the Yosemite Valley along which flows the Merced River. The white granite cliffs that surround this canyon , 13 km long , are among the most beautiful on the planet.
A stage of a journey in the far southern Chilean Patagonia is the hike in the small Magdalena Island, a nature reserve. The island has a length of 2 km and a maximum width of 500 metres. Is in the middle of the Strait of Magellan and is located about 30 km northeast of Punta Arenas, the main centre of the region and base for exploring the area. The island is uninhabited, but the absence of people is matched by the presence of some 65,000 pairs of Magellanic penguins, which makes the island one of the largest animal colonies of Chile and South America. In addition to penguins Isla Magdalena hosts cormorants and several other species of Antarctic origin. You can get there by boat from the town of Punta Arenas. The tours last for half a day to visit the island, where we walk a pathway one kilometer long .
The Perito Moreno Glacier is a glacier located in the Los Glaciares National Park in southwest Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentinian Patagonia . The 250 km2 (97 sq mi) ice formation, and 30 km (19 mi) in length, is one of 48 glaciers fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field located in the Andes system shared with Chile. This ice field is the world’s third largest reserve of fresh water.
For the first time this year I visited the United States. I began traveling at age 17, first alone, then, after the age thirty, in company with my wife. We went away for long periods with our backpacks and without programming . So we have known the countries that today would not be possible to visit as we did then. We had never thought to go to the United States. We were looking for countries off the beaten track by tourism . Those countries were also a challenge for us but we faced with enthusiasm. In return we received friendship, hospitality and knowledge of rhythms and habits of life totally different from ours. For the first time this year I visited the United States.
