El Chalten Hotels

... quite a bit but occasionally stayed in hostels - usually in rooms with bunks. In the major cities, we tended to stay in hotels. We had the option to upgrade to more deluxe accommodations if available. There were cook groups of 4 people and we rotated ...

... difference though between poor and rich. Some one-up-one down houses had exterior walls of unprotected roofing board while big concrete hotels were springing up next door. Even in low season the little town had a nice feel - wooden clad, colourful ...

... cafe, that served exclusively all things chocolate. Good thing we did a lot of hiking to burn off those excess calories! Fortunately, El Chalten failed to deliver the much forewarned winds, rain and cold; instead giving us five days in paradise. We highly ...

... Nous arrivons donc apres quelques heures de bus sur une route de terre et de graviers au charmant petit village de montagne "El Chalten". Ce charmant petit village fut cree en 1985 de toute piece pour le tourisme et continue a s agrandir d annee en ...

... North Face-Jacke kaufen moechte, duerften diese in ganz Europa ausverkauft sein. Alle Trekking-Kleider laufen naemlich in El Chalten herum...wirklich JEDER hat hier eine Trekking Jacke, Trekking Hosen, Trekking Socken, Trekking Muetze, Trekking ...

... I will mercifully spare you from, dear reader), but save to say that we developed an intimate knowledge of the streets of El Chalten, managing to include diversions to the tourist office, bank, various internet providers and a bakery to buy some ...

22/2/09-25/2/09 El Chalten was only a 4 hr bus ride away, for a nice change.  The town is tiny and was only founded in the 80's, really it is just hotels for people coming here for climbing and trekking in the national park.  The national park ...

... ;) Since then Katie's been researching places to eat tonight and chasing accomodation enquiries for the next few days (none of the hostels/hotels seem to answer their emails over here?!), while I try to update the blog & Facebook with some recent ...

... ; con los que compartimos caminatas y buenas cenas en las que el vino tinto no falto! Depuis El Calafate, nous nous sommes rendus a El Chalten quelques jours, ville encore plus glauque que la premiere car il n’y a rien a part des cabañas et hotels ...

... bus, so with decent books the journey flew by really. Less than 4 hours later we pulled into El Calafate, which looked bigger than El Chalten, but also a lot greyer and also a hell of a lot colder, based on the polar explorer-esque clothes that ...

... it was a volcano for its peak is most of the time covered by clouds. There are many itineraries setting off from El Chalten, those run through well signed trails inside the National Park as well as in private grounds. According to your physical condition ...

... to see the countryside as we headed to El Chalten. It was a mix of windswept Patagonia steppe, glacial rivers, lakes and, as we approached El Chalten, great views of the Fitzroy massif. We were lucky to have a clear, sunny day. As we stopped at the ...

... .  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 ...

... deemed unclimbable for many years, but now people come from all over the world to summit the spiky, near vertical peaks.  El Chalten is really quiet and mellow, and all of its residents take their siestas very seriously, closing the shops from 2pm ...

... -class climbers who tries to scale the towers. But I am here at the very tail end of the season, and find most of the hotels and restaurants shut for the winter. I have joined up with Celeste and Paul again, and we start with the Cerro Fitz Roy hike. ...

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 ...