Estancia Nibepo Aike

For those who didn´t know, we had an amazing vacation last month in Patagonia,
visiting El Calafate, Ushuaia & Las Grutas.

After a short bus drive, of almost 3000km!,
we arrived at El Calafate

Our first trip was to Estancia Nivepo Aike,
a huge farm within the National Park ´Los Glaciares´

and thus surrounded by beautiful nature,
unfortunately mother nature brought us some rain that day


so we were welcommed with some coffee and cake,
to warm up a little before checking out the shaving of sheep


a gaucho showed us the original way of shaving sheep,
with sissors, a real time consuming job

the clue is to shave it all in one peace, they´ll clean it afterwards
and do the packing before sending it to buenos aires where they´ll process it into clothes

the sheep was actually pretty calm
and didnt mind us watching how she got a new haircut



afterwards we had a nice walk through the hectares of land
the estancia owns

there were several savage horses

and after the walk we had a delicious 'cordero al asador' (lamb)
its that little lamb on the left cooking slowly in a cross