After our day of rest yesterday, we were keen to get back into the hills around El Chaltén. There was a track on the southern side of town, Loma del Pliegue Tumbado, which would give us panoramic views of the whole of the National Park. The walk started from the National park office and was a steady uphill for the entire 4km track. As we ascended, the landscape kept changing, we walked through steppe, some forest, open fields and finally just rocks. We w...

We awoke relaxed after a great nights sleep in the really, really comfy bed in Chalten Suites. Maybe a combination of the very long walk, a bottle of wine and a spa bath helped us into a deep slumber last night, but regardless we woke up feeling good. We had already decided that we wouldn't be doing much today, we'd had good weather yesterday and walked a bit further than we intended while the going was good. First things first for the day though was the awesom...

As we had hoped, we'd had a great night's sleep on the huge, comfy bed in Chalten Suites. Even the shower made it easy to get up and out the bed. We've been getting used to small, cramped showers where you are fighting to stop the shower curtain sticking to you while you wash, so to have a shower, with lots of steaming hot water, as wide as your outstretched hands was like being in heaven. The morning treats didn't stop there either, breakfast was amazing compa...

We were booked on the 8am Caltur bus from El Calafate to El Chaltén, but thanks to the close proximity of the hospedaje to the bus station we didn't need to get up particularly early. There weren't assigned seats on the bus and it was already quite full when we got there so we ended up being seated separately. It was a short ride compared to some of the marathon journeys we have made. The landscape was pretty flat and boring at the start, but it changed to...