El Chalten Ranches - Reviews and Rates

We caught an early morning bus from El Calafate to a small place called El Chalten. We were coming here to check out the amazing mountains of FitzRoy and Cerro Torre. Actually, when we say the early morning bus, it's the only bus - as El Chalten is tiny. The town has only been in existence for 24 years. It sprung up overnight to stop the Chilean...

It´s a rare thing for me to feel homesick when I travel, but that is exactly how I felt last Sunday... I had done a little research on the internet and locally and was delighted to have located a bar here in the ****-end of Patagonia, that had the sports cable channel ESPN and which would be broadcasting the final game of the Six Nations. The an...

Long road trip stopping overnight in a small village, camping in a backyard campground. We reached El Chalten by late afternoon, with our car running on no gas. We filled up on arrival and got 40.5litres in our 40litre tank, a close call. The weather was terrible. Cold, rainy, and extremely windy. There is a free municipal campsite but we could ...

Arrived in El Chalten by lunchtime with a great view of Fitz Roy and clear skies, but all the wind that we had managed to miss at Torres del Paine! People pay a lot of money for facial skin peels, but they should just stand on the main street in El Chalten! And our wedding rings are shiny - all the upsides of a gale force wind and dirt roads! We...

The longest day hike that I can remember doing, though trekking over the glacier was more than worth the stiffness and burning of the muscles and feet the next day!! I definately got a kick out of the crampons! Ice climbing rocks!! Oh, and El Chalten in one crazy sand/wind storm kind of town! This hike was incredible... with a 7 am departure, we...

So the best decision to get down to El Calafate was choosing to go by airline. I heard that Route 40 was a 2 day busride from Bariloche to El Calafate because of the road conditions. Instead we took a 4 hour busride from Bariloche to Esquel and then took an short airplane flight to El Calafate, which saved us a day of travel and some headache. A...

Para los amantes del trekking, la montaña o el alpinismo, El Chaltén viene a ser lo más cerca que se puede estar del paraíso. En los alrededores de este pueblecito hay tantas posibilidades de hacer excursiones que harían falta varias semanas para completar todos los circuitos de senderismo accesibles al común de los mortales. Digo esto porque de...

And so on Tuesday evening at about 10pm I arrived into El Chalten and quite a lively little hostel. El Chalten is on the northern edge of Lago Argentina and sits in the shadow of the very famous Fitzroy Mountain, which is a very impressive looking peak of over 3000m. The town itself is tiny and has no mobile coverage and until recently, no inter...

We arrived in El Chalten in the late afternoon, leaving us enough time to check into our hotel and plan our activities for the following day, our one and only free day in town. 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 sc...

Praying for longer legs and somehow 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 be easy, after all this was the easy trek to prepare us for the fi...