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El Chalten Slideshow
El Chalten
Travel Blogs from El Chalten, Argentina
El Chaltan, the light at the end of route 40
This will be short, as it's getting late. Plus, this post is best described with pictures – El Chalten is gorgeous. Driving in after our bus ride from hell it was as if the world were just starting. Having spent hours on that bus, ...
Cerro Torre
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 ...
Choppy seas and wobbly bellies
When I last spoke, I said I was heading for the open waters of the Southern Channels. I have just spent four days, three nights on a cargo ship travelling south through the straits of Chilean Patagonia. Wow, this was a cool experience (in both senses ...
Glacier Trekking & Apartment Hunting, El Chalten
... . 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 ...
New Year´s Eve from another side of the world
New Year´s Eve...was spent in Torres del Paine National Park. We were worried that we weren´t going to be able to see the Torres del Paine (towers) because yesterday, it was so gloomy! But when we awoke, we were pleasantly surprised at the day´s ...
Trekking.....
Quick entry about our whistle stop trekking in Patagonia! One afternoon Fitz Roy and the next morning part of Cerro ...
Fitz Roy and friends
... 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 ...
Keep on Trekkin'
... else I suppose. In any case, I´ve got my Thanksgiving meal planned for a nice big parrilla (mixed grill, like I had in Arequipa, but should be better in beef-loving Argentina) in Esquel before heading up to El Bolsón. Hasta luego amigos, Dan ...
El Chalten - English
We arrived in El Chalten 2 days ago after 3 hours flight from BA to El Calafate and then 3 hours bus to El Chalten. We decided to go for a city tour which our hotel recommended to do by foot. We did it and came back 10 ...
Trekking central!
This entry is going to have everything from the day we arrived to the day we left, just so ya know :P Day 1 Dec 14. We left El calafate at 7:30 in the morning, walking down to the bus station, no easy task in crazy crazy winds, with sand and dirt blowing ...
El Chalten
... . Dina: To punish yourself. Stathis: For the nice trekking around. Finally the short one we did was not something spectacular but still El Chalten is worth a visit if you like the "where the fuck am I?" feeling. The town, population 600, was build in ...
Experianced Hikers.... of course we are!
What a great welcome to a town. All buses stop off at the park information office, Neil was dubious about having to pay yet another park entrance fee. However, we were taken into the log cabin and given a map of all the trails in the area along with ...
The Torre and Fitz Roy
Spectacular 4 days of hiking. This time patience at sunrise allowed me to take some great photos. I got up about an hour too early and everyone else went back to bed, but patience in the mountains once again persevered and I was able to see the red ...
Hiking around Fitz Roy, Patagonia
... mountain scenery and intersting wildlife, however turned out to be a rather dull long drive through endless pampa. Never mind, got to El Chalten, sad collection of a few houses and dusty streets. Not a place to linger, everyone comes here to head into ...
Kayak in a floom
We took the early bus to El Chalten, which meant we were up for sunrise in El Calafate. What a sunrise - pink, purple, and orange! Once in Chalten, we did a short hike to a view point to see Mt. Fitzroy without any clouds on it. Apparently ...
Los Glaciares National Park
... . I love waterfalls so this was a gem for me, a nice break from glaciers we enjoyed the scenery and serenity of it all. El Chalten Rodeo: 13th & 14th We saw a poster for this party when we arrived and knew we had to stay for it, and man ...
Snowed out bundt it's all good
... off and up on the other side. It seemed like the torres (towers) were creating the clouds around them. Other activities in El Chalten included eating the camp food we brought with the best intentions of camping. Yay, pasta and ham and cheese sandwiches ...
Fitz Roy Massif
... if a puma approached us we should make ourselves look big, yell and throw rocks - but don´t run away! The small village of El Chalten is besides a river, and at the foot of the jagged peaks of the towering Fitz Roy massif - the highest ...
Glacier Walk
Like many towns found along the Trans-Canada or Yellowhead highways in Canada, El Chalten could be driven through/past in the blink of an eye. What a mistake that would be if someone chose to do that in their hurry to get to the famous Perito Moreno ...
Day 184: February 15, 2008 El Chaltén
... the town on her own. I suggested that we do the boat excursion on Lago Viedma back to the Viedma glacier, the largest in Argentina. She volunteered to get the tickets for the trip on her foray into town. All morning long, I saw hikers fighting the ...
Day 171: February 2, 2008 Perito Moreno-El Chalten
Day 171: February 2, 2008 Perito Moreno to El Chalten I arose around 8:30 and walked down to the YPF station and got some coffee and read the paper. I saw no evidence that last night's festival really happened. If it did, it was a well kept secret. ...
Fitz Roy Mountain
We got the bus from El Calafate to El Chalten (4 hours), this was another bumpy ride, the raods aren`t great here, this village is fairly remote, but it is a huge tourist attraction again in Patagonia beacuse of its beautiful mountains. The ...
trekking (and tripping) in El Chalten
... the disputed border with Chile), but tourists like us flock there because the surrounding area is known as the trekking capital of Argentina. The place is teeming with lakes, lagoons, glaciers and mountains, of which the jagged peaks of Cerro Torre ...
Praying for longer legs...
... waking up with the stride of a Viking... So with the boys new tent and my new boots we left the tiny town of El Chalten and its tumbleweed behind us. Excitedly we begun our three day trek up to Mt Fitzroy and beyond. The first day was meant to ...
Torres del Paine National Park
We arrived at Puerto Natales at about noon where we met our guide for the next few days. His name was Chiad, from Turkey. Even though this is only his third season in Chile, he spoke great Spanish! After packing up our gear, we took a two hour ride into ...
Glaciers, Tyrolean and Ice Climbing
... days and don´t get to see the Fitz Roy once through the clouds. We have seen it nearly all the time we have been here. El Chalten is a really beautiful place and it will be hard to leave. Tomorrow we head to El Calafate to see the Perito Moreno ...
Patagonia Part 3 - Bloody El! The Epic El Chalten
... to our first experience of Patagonia - the landscape has gone from this to this El Chalten was a tiny village in the middle of a typical Patagonian valley and is in the shadows ...