We left El Calafayte on a fine summer morning, not needing our jackets! The trip to El Chalten was 185kms through more Patagonian Steppe as before.
This is a new tourist town, growing in a topsy turvey manner. Some streets are newly paved, others have gravel spilling out over the main roads. Many houses under construction. Currently about 1300 residents, most of the town closes down over the winter.
We are in a hostel, very nice and clean, Good cooking area, nice meals, pity about the lack of ventilaition - there are no opening windows anywhere and the heaters are all on full. Made for a very hot, stuffy night in our 4 person bunkroom which we are sharing with John & Lisa.
We ahd dinner at the hostel, after a walk around town. The crumbed schnitzel was the sixe of a dinner plate, and the steak was delicious.
Today Liz is going out onto a glacier, John is walking a local walkway with some of the others. It is fine and sunny, though cloudy. Seems like it is always windy here!
Internet is very slow, a sattelite connection which is also expensive.
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