Blogs from Santa Cruz, Argentina, South America - page 86

After getting on our bus at 5am, all 10 of us fell sound asleep! In Argentina there are like very few choices of main roads to take, and a main road consists of like gravel road and there is no scenery its just nothing everywhere for like 14 hours! So good to have a night bus and sleep. However the route to El Calafate means we have to go into Chile and so we were all wakened up and marched off the bus in order to get our passports stamped by border control departing Argentina and then 20 mins late the passport control, for arriving in Chile. Why do passport control people all look so scary!!! Nikki even got in trouble from them and was told to wake up!!!! After the dogs have a good sniff ... read more

Wanderparadies und suesch e gottverlasses doerfli wos rundumme eifach nuet het. vo el calafate wo scho zimmli ellei dostoht sinds gad numol 4h is nichts und jetzt simmer do. isch herrlich. ueses hostel isch so chli, do verrecksch. mit ues no en aenglender. recht en spacige aber nette typ. noch de akunft am elfi hemmer gad uesi tour fuer de noechschti tag buecht. wandere, ufem gletscher (glaciar grande) laufe und finally no ischlaettere. alles isch eifach de hammer gsi. ussert dassmer scho am morge am 7ni hend muesse ready si. scho recht frueh. aber dnatur het alles entschaediged. hammer. am obig todkaputt, swohlverdienti bierli. sind immer hin fascht 12 wander gsi und da immen tempo wo noed zverachte isch. fett. wuerkli fett. am tag druf isch denn zerscht mol uspenne agseit gsi. de pascal und ich ... read more

Sodeli, Flug Bariloche nach El Calafate. Luxusgut, dass mer sich aber bi sotige dimensione scho leischte doerf. suess mitem bus waer de ganz plausch 36h gange und mitem flugi gad mol 1h 40min. scho vil ringer. uf all faell simmer etz do und hend denn am flugi (also dfabi) gad en typ vom hostel akuatscht wo mir eh hend woelle higoh und hend ues denn doete igrichtet. am gliche obig gad no alles gfixed fuer paar trips. calafate isch e suber tuuers touridorf, aber was soells. chasch noed immer billig ha. ... read more

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Went to El Chalten after spending at few days at Calafate. Just when we thought that it would be quite some time before we would camp again, we were tempted by the pictures taken at sunrise of Mt Fitz Roy taken by a gp of Israeli guys. We decided to camp 1 night at Parque National Los Glacier in El Chalten. El Chalten is 4 hrs away from Calafate and there´re really nothing other than mountains surrounding small little quiet town. As the climbing season is over in a few days, there´re very few travellers and many shops haved closed for the season. The mountains are so near that we could just walk like 400m and start trekking into the mountains. So we grabbed our rented camping equipment and trekked up 3 hours to the campsite. ... read more