El Chalten Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Oi amigos, tudo certo no meu ultimo passeio desta viagem. Ontem, Sabado, saih cedinho do hotel caminhando ateh o terminal de onibus de El Calafate. Ainda estava escuro e o onibus para El Chalten saiu na hora seguindo pelas planicies quase deserticas da Patagonia, pela Ruta 40. Na metade do caminho fez uma parada num hotel no meio do nada cha...

Hey Everybody! Yes, I know that I said I would try and write last Saturday, but when you´re only a couple of hundred miles from Antarctica I guess the internet isn´t the most reliable resource. The entire town of El Calafate´s internet was down for 2 days. So, just so you know I was alive that entire time and having a blast! The great news about...

We left El Calafate early in the morning for El Chalten, think it took around 3.5 hours. We hadn´t booked any accommodation and headed straight for the HI hostel Rancho Grande. We spent one night there only because we had already paid. Definitely wouldn´t recommend it. We had to ask 3 times before the sheets on the bed were finally changed (by w...

we went to el chalten for two reasons. to hike the fitz roy range and to do a glacier hike and try our hand at some ice climbing... lucky us, the hike we had planned to do overlapped with the trail for the glacier hike so it was awesome and made for an incredibly LONG LONG day! we arrived in chalten, a very young town which was erected solely fo...

Des de Puerto Madryn al Parque Nacional de los Glaciares, al sud de l'Argentina, hi ha dos camins. El primer segueix una ruta pavimentada a la vora de la costa atlantica. Passa per poblacions petroleres, aburrides, que maten els dies a la vora de la mar. El segon baixa acariciant els Andes durant mes de 1500 kms. Porta un nom mitic per als argen...

On a grey cloudy morning we set out on our first trek, with concerns of cold temperatures stoked by the previous nights snow. As we ascended into the Andes the sun rose with us, burning away the clouds and heralding a beautiful day to come. Clumps of snow clung to the ground and trees creating both a surreal view and a source of cool refreshment...

David´s entry.... Ah Chalten, As an introduction, let me give a quick guide book style summary of Chalten. El Chalten is a hiker's paradise. A sleepy town with nothing much to do, so get to bed early and wake up early, ready to hit one of the numerous trails heads that line the outskirts of town. Several day trips are available that can provide ...

Another full day of buses got us into the small town of Perito Moreno. A one-strip town with more than it´s fair share of gringos (like us, wanting to get to the patagonian peaks). We managed to find the last room in the entire town at the ¨Viejo Bar¨ - a smoke filled pool hall that looked like it had been bombed from the outside. Oh well, it wa...

Just a quick update, full details to be added when internet's back down to 20p an hour ( 'tis 2 squid down here). Have left the comfortable warmth of Bariloche for a more varied climate round Mount Fitz Roy, a huge kilometre high spire of rock rising from a bed of glaciers. Weather varies from sun to wind and rain to sun again. Lata. Have had an...

Well we made it to the Moreno Glacier despite a late finish the night before. Tamara, Liz and Caroline had arrived late the previous day and we had made them a meal - to make up for this they cooked the following night and it was a feast of fruit and vegetables that was a sharp contrast to the pure carnivore existance in Buenos Aires! There had ...