Perito Moreno is a very large beautiful glacier with excellent tourist infrastructure making it easy to visit. Until recently the glacier also was quite an exception in that it was a stable glacier, not retreating like many other glaciers around the world. However a recent study shows that that is changing now and Perito Moreno is shrinking away too.
Perito Moreno is part of Los Glaciares National park, also including Fitzroy mountain and area around it. We bought online a multiday permit that enabled us to go to Perito Moreno and later to all our hikes in El Chalten. The rates for the park entrance tickets are here.
Mirador de Los Susperos is the first lookout point of Perito Moreno Glacier that one reaches. It has a beautiful view of the glacier and Lago Argentino around it. As at some other major tourist sites, we saw Malvinas Argentinas sign. We also saw it near El Chalten and at Iguazu falls with respective distances to the islands. Malvinas other name is Falkland islands, British overseas territory that Argentina and UK fought a war over in 1982. It is clearly not a closed question in Argentina.
After the lookout point we headed to the parking lot for the Perito Moreno Glacier. Parking lot is very large and is far from the Glacier walking trails and platforms. One can walk it (uphill to the glacier visitor center) or take a shuttle. We took a shuttle. There are extensive walkways and viewing platforms to admire the glacier. It was busy with many tourist buses but the platforms have a lot of space to view the glacier. We have seen several chunks of ice breaking off, calving, while we were there. It is a very impressive spectacle.
Unexposed and submerged part of the glacier has a different very blue color, because of its higher density. When pieces of glacier break off and flip over one can see this very beautiful, blue ice. Over time it cracks and starts to look white, like regular ice.
We walked all the platforms to appreciate different view points. We had our sandwich lunch admiring the glacier. And by the time we were leaving, most tour bases have departed and we enjoyed the Glacier without crowds.