Patagonia Adventures El Chalten

We rang in the 2009 in the smallest town of our trip, El Chalten.  Even though our hostel didn't have the best pricing or service, they definitely knew how to throw a good New Years bash.  All you can eat BBQ and drink for $20, a DJ, plus ...

... down he went for KAMATE KAMATE and so the night ended, and so ends Plew travels in El Chalten, El Calafete and Puerton Madryn. There are many more adventures out there. But these will have to wait for the next installment where you see the ...

... and powdered milk to keep us going while we sat out the storm. The demographic in hiking towns is always a little odd and El Chalten was no exception. The majority of people are French and speak no Spanish or English, so conversation was strictly amongst ...

... in the scenery, but were eventually forced to leave by giant flies trying to avenge the murder of their brother earlier. The adventures in this spectacular national park were far from over though.  The next day was an expedition we had been waiting ...

... the lakes, mountains and solitude of Patagonia and flew up to the city of tango - Buenos Aires. NB three firsts happened in El Chalten: 1) Andy after consulting what seemed like everyone in the hostel, boiled his first egg. 2) Due what I am claiming to ...

Monday morning we took the first bus to El Chalten (quite a short bus ride in comparison to our others, only 4 hours!!). This is just a one street town but with plenty to do, many hikes up the mountains to beautiful lakes. So on our first afternoon we ...

The next day Mandy travelled on to El Chalten, a little village 4 hours down the road, while Orla and I took a tour to the Perito Moreno glacier, one of the fastest advancing glaciers there is. We took a boat to see the glacier up close and then ...

... side we could see the entire valley of mountains that we had just passed to get there. Amazing!! After 3 days in this little town, we were on our way back to El Calafate from which we were flying to Buenos Aires to finish up our adventures in Argentina. ...