Monday, March 05, 2007

El Chalten


Having a set time to be back to Puerto Natales dictacted my schedule, so I figured it would be best to get to El Chalten first, before returning to the other glacier outside of El Calafate. I met two people on the bus from the Netherlands, Bert and Natalie. We looked for cheap accomodations together and found one place that was slightly resonable. We got some food and took off together to do some hiking. El Chalten is inside Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. The town is all dirt roads and just a hodge podge of buildings. However, a development that looked like it should belong in some US suburb was being constructed ... paved roads and all. The afternoon hike we chose was up to Lago Torre, where you can see the tall spires Torre, Egger, and Standhardt (left to right). The glacier to the left is Glaciar Grande.

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