Road to El Chalten

Our bus left El Calafate at 1pm and journeyed through the glacier national park to the small town of El Chalten. The town is very close to Chile, in fact it's just the other side of the massive Fitz Roy mountain range that towers over the town. It's very quaint with many of the buildings made from wood.

After checking in we headed out for …

Mom and I arrived in El Calafate in Patagonia, rented an adorable, bare bones Fiat, and then started the absolutely gorgeous drive to El Chalten. It was so windy and there was a fair amount of tour buses on the road. So, when a huge autobus passed our little Fiat it blocked the wind and kind of sucked you in and then out when they passed. I'm very …

... only sell us 100 pesos worth of fuel as he was running short but this was enough to get us the rest of the way to El Chalten. The drive in to El Chalten is spectacular. After leaving the Ruta 40 you follow a paved road along the side of the enormous ...

... from here because the system is so slow. So for any other accommodation reservations it's best to book before you arrive in El Chalten, although some hostels will phone and reserve for you. When the electriciy is off the supermarkets can shut because the ...

... , is to head into Chile and up Carretera Austral until I reach Puerto Montt. Carretera Austral, apparently one of the worlds ultimate road trips, because of the amazing scenery and spectacular roads. So, yet another place I have to go back to one day I ...

... an end to the bad weather and planning our trek, and we celebrated Easter....by eating loads of chocolate! El Chaltén is Argentina’s newest town, first settled in 1985 during the Chile-Argentina rush for land-claim, and with the masses ...

... there is La Ruta 40 (Route 40) South America, running basically from the top to the bottom of Argentina. It is 3,107 miles long. From Esquel to El Chalten the "road" travels through the miles and miles of vast emptiness over the prairie like landscape of ...

... need to do something until Doug's plane leaves on Monday.  So we cut our stay short, checked out, and hopped on a bus to Chalten at the last minute.  It's cool little town with a sort of hippy vibe to it but also the place to ...

... on this planet, on a road which is sometimes paved, but which is mostly a gravel track, we arrive in El Chalten. El Chalten is a small town next to the stunning Fitz Roy mountain range, and which was put up quickly in the 80s by ...

... Moreno, and the wild mountainous scenery of Torres del Paine, we decide on another fix of the same stuff in El Chalten, Argentina. The huge continental ice sheet on the Chile-Argentina border extends for hundreds of kilometres from Perito Moreno, which ...

... decision to make. We didn’t have enough fuel to get back to the fuel station in El Calafate, so we decided to head towards El Chalten which is a tourist town 119 km off the main highway on good roads. It is an end destination, so we would have to ...

... because most of the road was unfinished. We were thinking hiking today wasn't going to be too fun. But by some miracle we arrived in El Chalten and the rain stopped. A good sign I do think.   While there was this break in the rain we quickly picked up ...