El Chalten

Written By Matt Brown

Tuesday, November 1st: El Calafate > El Chalten, Argentina

  • We left El Calafate and drove the 3.5 hours El Chalten. Our last 30 minutes on the road gave us a sneak peak of the panoramic views of Fitz Roy, Marmot, Poincenot, etc. 

  • We arrived at our MerKaba AirB&B, which had a Jewish, hippy, yoga vibe to it. 

  • The town is even smaller than El Calafate with one gas station on the edge of city, several charming restaurants and bakeries and a few small supermarkets that had questionable produce. 

  • We started to realize English as a second language is more common here in the Patagonia region than the northern part of the country, even in the cosmopolitan city of Buenos Aires. 

  • We hiked to the Condor and Eagle lookout points for a quick reintroduction to hiking after spending weeks in Greece and northern Argentina where hiking options were limited. We immediately felt out of shape and knew we only had a week to condition ourselves before the W. 

  • We made chicken legs and Greek salad for dinner and packed our camping gear for the next day.

  • Accomodations: AirB&B, El Chalten, Argentina

Matt Brown
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