El Chalten, Argentina Travel Blogs

Funny looking hill.
Apr 21, 2005 (16 photos)

... the tiny village of El Chaltén. I am here to do a few day hikes and hopefully get a glimpse of Cerro Fitz Roy. From El Chaltén I hoped to continue north for a couple of days, on the adventurous gravel strip called Ruta 40, until I reach my next destination. ...

Treking in Los Glaciers National Park
Nov 16, 2008 (16 photos)

... points - Torres del Paine, which is the South West corner in Chile, Peirto Moreno Glacier on the South East Corner in Argentina, and El Chalten on the North East corner in Argentina. After hiking 69 miles Torres del Paine, hiking another 32 miles in El ...

El Chalten and El Calafate
Dec 11, 2006 (21 photos)

... 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 ...

El Chalten
Mar 6, 2008 (109 photos)

El Chalten

Walking in the Andes
Feb 9, 2007 (13 photos)

Alex: El Chalten was a necessary stop as it is the only place we can get the bus from up to Los Antiguos where we plan to cross over into Chile, but it was also a really good stop. It is a mecca for mountain climbers who come to attempt Fitz Roy, ...

Monte Cerro Grande
Feb 28, 2006 (8 photos)

... 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 we ...

Mountains in the mist
Dec 16, 2006 (11 photos)

... as it survived (and me too and I spend a lot of time in it!!), it can´t be that bad. I had to stay for another day in El Chalten when I got back, as the bus that goes up north ruta 40 to El Bolson only leaves every second day. It became a nice day of ...

Hiking Fitz Roy, Patagonia
Apr 8, 2005 (9 photos)

El Chalten is a small village 5hrs away from El Calafate. We spent 3 great days here hiking around the Parque Nacional Los Glaciers which, amazingly, is free to everyone. The mountains and scenery are stunning with granite towers rising above the snow- ...

Trekking in Patagonia
Oct 18, 2006 (28 photos)

... refreshing to think that it is only me and nature for many hours at a time. I loved it. Backpacking at its best. El Chalten is a fascinating little town in the middle of nowhere. Very dusty and set amongst the mountains of Patagonia. El Chalten is in ...

Perito Moreno Glacier and The Smoking One
Jan 30, 2008 (9 photos)

... , at least we still saw it break off and crash.    After the glacier we left for another mountain town, El Chalten.  Both the Perito Moreno glacier and the 2 mountain formations are both located in Los Glaciars Parque Nacional.  We ...

Fitzroy
Mar 2, 2007

... tell that I have over packed. Drats. Minimalism is the way to go but so hard for me to accept. The views of Chalten and of the mountains begin immediately. Wow. The 4 hours until the campsite are filled with beautiful views and neat microclimates. After 2 ...

Day 1 - Cerro Torre and Campamento de Agostini
Jan 23, 2007 (3 photos)

... 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 some bread ...

The longest hike of my life... (so far)...
Oct 22, 2009 (25 photos)

... Two and a half hours of driving and we only saw one hotel/café and probably half a dozen cars. Pretty isolated out here. El Chalten is a great little town of only about 800 residents, in the shadow of the mountains and right next to Glacier National Park. ...

Touch of Home
Mar 5, 2007

Definitely a recovery day. It is gorgeous so I go for an easy day hike. Email from Chalten is only slightly faster than my taking a flight to the US to deliver messages in person.   My friend from Denver, Monique, arrives in the evening. It is so ...

Torres del Paine/El Chaltén/Glasier Perito Moreno
Nov 30, 2006 (15 photos)

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El Chalten
Mar 12, 2009 (8 photos)

... in Chantal´s case) to get the most out of the Parque National los Glaciers -  the tiny village of El Chalten is the trekking capital of Argentina. On our first day we hiked up to Laguna Torre to get (cloudy) views of Cerro Torre (3102m) and& ...

El Chalten - The windy trecking capital
Feb 9, 2009 (14 photos)

... glacier for the next day and checked into "El Relinchio", a central located camping area with HOT showers (very important) ... El Chalten is an amazing town - It could be out of an old western movie (if you ignore the obvious ...

Survived a v tedious 30hr bus journey
Dec 6, 2008 (1 photos)

... the 30hr journey.  Bus not exactly luxury on this one - no toilet for half the way and video packed up too.  El Chalten is a small, inhospitable town - feels like it's 'in the making' with the growth of tourism - but very difficult to find ...

Falling in love with the Patagonia...
Mar 4, 2009 (14 photos)

... wasn't dreaming up this heaven on earth.  Most people rave about Torres del Paine in Chile- and almost everyone agrees that El Chalten is lovely... but they always say "you need to get lucky with the weather."  Most days, even during summer ...

Amazing peaks on an easy walk
Feb 3, 2008 (5 photos)

... , and its strong, straight neck felt amazing with the softest fibre. It was interesting to learn that El Chaltén is a hotly contested area between Chile and Argentina and in 1985 Argentina decided to set up a town to increase the country's claim on the ...

Ice, Wind and Victory in Argentine Patagonia
Mar 25, 2009 (8 photos)

... huge ripples as they crashed into the water below.  Very impressive indeed. From El Calafate, we moved on to El Chalten, 'trekking capital of Argentina', and a spot where I had great intentions to do a few good hikes... but the last few weeks have ...

Hiking around the Mount Fitz Roy area
Feb 6, 2005 (42 photos)

... a bumpy gravel road! This cut the trip by perhaps an hour. We arrived to very sunny weather, and the notorious winds of El Chalten were also missing. Mt. Fitz Roy was looming and looking grand over the town (behind some hills) without any clouds in ...

Trekking in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
Jan 25, 2009 (14 photos)

... goed te zien, terwijl die de rest van dagen in de wolken gehuld was. We waren redelijk gesloopt bij terug komst in El Chalten. En dan te bedenken dat het plan was om de volgende dag richting de Fitz Roy te trekken met gehuurde tent en matjes. ...

El Chalten
Feb 6, 2004 (5 photos)

 

Fitz Roy
Oct 5, 2007

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These boots were made for walking
Oct 20, 2005 (3 photos)

El Chalten is an even smaller town about 4 hours bumpy bus ride from El Calafate. They are building a new road which will probably cut the journey time by half as the current one is just stones and dirt.. Reading the history, the town only began in 1985 ...

Cerro Torre
Jan 22, 2006 (4 photos)

1/22 El Chalten, Argentina Miles travelled: 43703 This is the "trekking capital of Argentina", adjoining Los Glaciares National Park. Quite a strange town -- it seems quite rural and simple, yet has some tourism companies, hotels, and restaurants. ...

El Chalten
Mar 8, 2008 (5 photos)

After our brief stay in El Calafate, the next destination on our list was El Chalten, located on the northern part of the Los Glaciares National Park, where we planned to trek around the Mount Fitzroy range. Still carrying many of the ´ ...

Glacier Trekking & Apartment Hunting, El Chalten
Jan 4, 2007 (61 photos)

... . We had stopped beforehand at the ranger station to gather information on the plethora of activites that were available to us. El Chalten is a very small town, and the scenery is absolutely stunning. We were beyond lucky in terms of weather. Patagonia ...

Fitz Roy and friends
Mar 5, 2006 (24 photos)

... was a fortunate thing because the wind got so bad that last day that it knocked me off my feet a couple times hiking back down. Back in El Chalten that afternoon I caught a last-minute bus to El Calafate for its Perito Moreno Glacier. See you there...