El Chalten

 

We came up to El Chalten on a bus this morning.  It was very relaxing and the views from the upstairs windows were excellent.  There was a half-way stop at Hotel la Leona where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are rumoured to have stayed on their way to Chile.

On the journey we saw a lot of rheas and guanacos.  Sadly the guanacos don't always make it over the farmers' fences and we saw quite a lot of dead ones hanging over the barbed wire.  We also saw quite a few condors.

El Chalten is a trekking town with lookouts, mountains, lakes and glaciers to walk to.  We did a walk to a lookout this afternoon and with bright sunshine were able to get excellent views of Mt Fitz Roy and a few of the glaciers.

The river that runs through the town is also Fitz Roy River. 

We're looking forward to doing some more trekking tomorrow provided the weather is not too wet.  Today was dry but SO windy!

This is the Hotel de Leona next to the Leona River.

The landscape was dry and desolate.  It's farmed but we didn't see much livestock.  You can see a couple of guanacos if you look hard.



Some public art at the turn off for El Chalten.  I think people fish for trout in Lago Viedma
Rio Fitz Roy - not much like our Fitzroy River

The mountain dominates the town


I just kept taking pictures

And here's another one.





 

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  1. UnknownMarch 2, 2024 at 3:31 PM

    The photo of the landscape and guanacos looks like something out of star wars. Mount Fitz Roy looks amazing. R

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