After our time at the estancia was up, we crossed the border into Argentina and headed south through the mostly uninhabited Argentine Patagonia. Many buses in Argentina are equipped with an alarm that sounds whenever the driver exceeds the speed limit. On this overnight trip, we had a driver with a lead foot and were treated to an almost constant loud buzzing alarm all through the night as he tried to drive as fast as possible. Eventually, we arrived in a town called El Chaltén, one of Argentina´s newest towns (less than 20 years old), to hike in the northern sector of Parque Nacional Los Glaciares.
Despite being a very popular tourist destination, the town does not have an ATM. This proved to be very problematic for us as we did not have much Argentina money with us. We had just come from Chile and after getting into Argentina immediately hopped on the bus to El Chaltén. We even had to move out of a hostel in favor of another one that took credit cards to try to make our money last. Luckily we scraped by and were able to make it to an ATM a few hours down the road.
As I said, we came to El Chaltén to get some hiking in. We chose to do a day hike to Laguna Torre (around 18 km round trip), a glacial lake at the base of Cerro Torre. Although it did cloud up a little after we started hiking, it was still a great hike with amazing views (and tasty ice).
After our time at the estancia was up, we crossed the border into Argentina and headed south through the mostly uninhabited Argentine Patagonia. Many buses in Argentina are equipped with an alarm that sounds whenever the driver exceeds the speed limit. On this overnight trip, we had a driver with a lead foot and were treated to an almost constant loud buzzing alarm all through the night as he tried to drive as fast as possible. Eventually, we arrived in a town called El Chaltén, one of Argentina´s newest towns (less than 20 years old), to hike in the northern sector of Parque Nacional Los Glaciares.
Despite being a very popular tourist destination, the town does not have an ATM. This proved to be very problematic for us as we did not have much Argentina money with us. We had just come from Chile and after getting into Argentina immediately hopped on the bus to El Chaltén. We even had to move out of a hostel in favor of another one that took credit cards to try to make our money last. Luckily we scraped by and were able to make it to an ATM a few hours down the road.
As I said, we came to El Chaltén to get some hiking in. We chose to do a day hike to Laguna Torre (around 18 km round trip), a glacial lake at the base of Cerro Torre. Although it did cloud up a little after we started hiking, it was still a great hike with amazing views (and tasty ice).
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