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El Chalten Slideshow
El Chalten
Travel Blogs from El Chalten, Argentina
Small, but Stunning
... . We saw guanacos, a relative of llama walking near the road in the amazingly barren landscape. Very different from Ushuaia. El Chalten is a village of 1,000 inhabitants existing just because of Fitz Roy National Park. Fitz Roy is stunning, ...
El Chalten and Los Glaciers National Park
El Chalten and Los Glaciers National Park - From Ushuaia it was another day long journey to get to the Andes. Myself and Andre decided to visit Los Glaciers National Park to do some hiking. The area is famous for its Glaciers and Mount ...
Keine Zeit fuer Fitz Roy / No Time for Fitz Roy
... Tag daher fuer uns um 6.30 Uhr weiter nach El Calafate. El Chaltén On the way from Perito Moreno nach El Chalten we visit the World Heritage Sight of 'Cuevas de los Manos'. These rock paintings are 13.000 to 9.000 years old and are ...
Hiking Day 1
This is a top pick! On Tuesday, we hiked the Mirador de Los Condors and Mirador de Los Aguilas trails. The hostel told us the trails would take about an hour total. I don't know who set the pace when they measured those walks, but I’m guessing it was a ...
Day 241: El Chaltén
... mountain trekkers should go on. The next says, 'Trail Closed. Do not go ahead'. Having gone ahead I can understand the concern. So, thwarted for a third time by Patagonian mountain ranges too coy to reveal themselves, I am bussed back to El ...
Day 183: Feb. 14, 2008 El Calafate to El Chaltén
... Road crews were making final preparations for paving the four main streets. Flat, concrete curbs and flat sidewalks-a novel concept in Argentina-had already been laid. It was such a clear, pretty day, in dramatic surroundings, that we decided to hop ...
Mt Fitz Roys Home base
... group in Buenos Aires. The plan was to catch a flight from Buenos Aires and head down to El Calafate then catch a private bus to El Chalten. The airline had other ideas that day. As we prepared to leave the airport, it turned out that the plane we were ...
Parc National Los Glaciares - trekking
... (een grote granieten puntberg) voor zeker de helft in de wolken steekt. Gelukkig hadden we al foto's gemaakt vanaf de weg naar El Chalten. De gletsjer is zeker net zo indrukwekkend om te zien en het meer van smeltwater is bedekt onder een flinke laag ...
Glaciers, everywhere!
... on the trip, except birds. This is Patagonia, and the wind is sometimes startling in it's ferocity. We turn west to get to El Chalten, and the Glacier National Park. Mount Fitzroy is the main attraction of this touristy little town, and it is certainly a ...
Villa O Higgins
... sur la pointe nord del lago del Desierto pres de la gendarmerie et admirer les sommets du Fitz Roy et cerro torre. Une fois sur la rive sud apres avoir souffert, je demande a un couple argentin de nous emmener vers El Chalten, en voiture bien ...
Day 240: El Chaltén
... the Fitz Roy range. I had to get closer. So, I am on another bus in the late sunrise over the bleached scrubland of Patagonia. El Chaltén is the gateway to the Fitz Roy range. This tiny town beside the Rio Fitz Roy is only 22 years old and still ...
Superaçao
Depois de pegar o bus pra el chalten, cheguei la pelas 21:30 do dia 19, no meu quarto so tinha mulher, 2 americanas e 1 espanhola, fiz amizade na mesma hora e elas me convidaram pra jantar com elas, entao tomamos muito vinho e eu tive que comer a gororoba ...
Parque Nacional de los Glaciares
... Chile and Torres del Paine and I to El Chalten for a couple of days of walking up there before following in his footsteps. El Chalten is a lovely little town in a wind tunnel in the Parque Nacional de los Glaciares, with plenty of trails starting from ...
12km Hike Day!
... it down from the hostel after leaving abit too late but thank god we made it with a min or so to spare. We arrived in El Chalten about 11am not really knowing what to expect. We taught it would be an organised tour of the area which is mainly in the ...
Wandern zum Fitzroy
Von Los Antigues ging es weiter nach El Chalten. Die Busfahrt war tagsueber und wir sahen eine tolle Landschaft (von ewig weiter Ebenen, mit unendlichem Horizont --> immer mehr Berge, ploetzlich die Kordillieren und Gletscher!!!) Witzige ...
Gas Thieving English Idiots
We hike for three hours to Lago Torre where we pitch our tent in the free camp site. Another hours walking takes around Lago Torre to a viewpoint looking down on Glaciar Grande. I run out of fuel for the stove when cookinq our evening meal of pasta ...
Failed Glacier Walk
Well what a strange place, I´m not entirely sure why people put El chalten on their list of places to visit, but they do. Its a tiny town with mountains all round it, dust blowing through and quite frankly not a lot there. One road in and the same ...
Southern Patagonia on Route 40
... and yet I didn't realise that there was this massive ice field in the bottom section of the continent, crossing both Argentina and Chile :) I just thought I was coming to visit a couple of glaciers that were conveniently located close together LOL And ...
Meeting Fitz Roy
... for the delay in blog enteries, internet has not been so readily available recently. So, after El Calafate, we went to El Chalten, a quiet little town which was only created in the last 10 years. Amazing treking around, and also close to the Fitz Roy ...
Impressions of a hiker
we just got back from an overnight hike in Parque de los Glaciares in El Chalten. I am now eating a fettucini with mushroom sauce and drinking Gulmen Roja Ale and it feels so good. We entered the park yesterday at noon and hiked to Poincenot, 1,45 h of ...
El Chalten
... driving all day and once again stunning glacial lakes and huge glaciers. We had arrived after another hard drive day into El Chalten. Everyone put their tents up and we managed to cook some food before going straight to bed. We did managed to ...
Argentina/Chile
... .Are ye beginning to see why I love Argentina? El Chalten 06th April - 08th April El Chalten is a tiny village in the middle of nowhere,about 4 hours from El Calafate. ...
Day 186 - Perito Moreno to El Chalten
... we were! and finally... 7. An incredible sunset behind a petrol station. Just before midnight we finally pulled into the town of El Chalten, which I've re-named "Bobby" (think about it...), and which - despite the lack of light outside - appeared to ...
WINDY Viedma Glacier walk
... gusts … even with my build I was blown around a bit. Dinner was on the run as we drove the 3 hours back to El Calafate tonight getting here at 9pm. The sweeping landscape is uninterrupted and the clouds are amazing. I was sitting in the middle seat ...
Fiz Roy y Cerro Torres: que suerte!
... arrivare al campo base dell'altro monte: Cerro Torre. Veramente dura, ero stanca muerta! Il giorno prima che arrivassimo a El Chalten era partita una spedizione di scalatori per sfidare il Fiz Roy (parete verticale finale di 900metri!!!!!La sfida di ...
Waiting in El Chalten
... ; She was warm and embracing in Torres del Paine, cool but temperate in El Calafate, and cold, temperamental, and blustery in El Chalten. As we stepped off the bus in Chalten, the wind was gusting between 70 and 80 kilometers per hour. I know ...
Fitzroy National Park
... were a gorgeous blue colour and we spent about an hour there just taking in the view. We then walked back to El Chalten along a valley and through some more woodland, stopping enroute at the mirador for Cerro Fitzroy and taking a minor detour to ...
El Chaltèn
... 't even walk on the path. Not to mention that the low hanging clouds were obstructing our views of the mountains. We walked back to El Chalten. All of the hikes leave right from the town, taking up to 4 hours one way (8 return). There are ...
Mountainslayer
... was nappy time. No frolicking this night, I would say the entire group was BEAT! That was it for today...tomorrow morning, its back to the public transport for the FOUR HOUR (bumpy) overland trek to El Calafate! Then, we head to Chile! See ya ...