El Chaten The next day with clear blue skies, we were off again on a 5 hour bus journey to El Chaten; a town at the foot of the Fitz Roy Mountain Range. Through yet another wilderness (much more deserty this time), with a multitude of grey rocky mountains, screes from sandy brown to grey (we're talking serious sedimentary layers) and lakes of every hue of blue. Patagonian weather is still being kind to us as we arrived into El Chaten, a small town formed in a valley, with the buildings made by the people who live in them. New buildings are popping up like mushrooms, literally out of chipboard, wooden fence poles and lots of hollow ceramic bricks, that are all chipped and broken in transportation from Northern Argentina. It felt like a frontier
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