Originally I wanted to drive all the way from El Calafate to Puerto Rio Tranquilo in one day but after learning that a 70km stretch of the Ruta 40 is still a bad quality gravel road I decided to drive up until Gobernador Gregores, stay overnight and leave from there the next morning. This is […]
The Los Glaciares National park’s entrance is about 40 minute drive from El Calafate on a quite good paved road. The entry fee is 500 Argentinian Pesos per person and you can only pay cash. After the entrance there is an additional 20 minute drive on a paved but very bumpy road to the glacier. […]
We arrived in El Calafate after staying a few nights in El Chalten. After El Chalten it was a real change. Mobile phone services were working, there were plenty of working ATMs, petrol stations having petrol and taking credit cards. So El Calafate has all the services you would need for a comfortable stay. El […]
The shortest part of our Patagonian road trip was the drive from El Chalten to El Calafate. The distance between El Chalten and El Calafate is just 213km which took us about 2.5 hours to drive. The road is good quality, all paved. Google maps estimates 3:20 hours for the trip which is not correct. […]
If you are in El Chalten and you have a car you should drive all the way out to Lago del Desierto. This is where the Argentinian and Chilean border lies and if you are planning to cross the border into Chile to get to O’Higgins this is where you have to be. Unfortunately there […]
The way up to Laguna de los Tres is among the most beautiful and toughest hikes from El Chalten. It is about 12km long one way ( 24km return ) which wouldn’t be a long hike in itself but there are 2 steep sections. Trekking websites indicate that the whole hike go and back should […]
There is a lot of information available on El Chalten online, hence I am not going to replicate that, I am merely trying to give you a 2017 November update. There is an ATM in town which hasn’t been working while we were there. I suspect it is out of order most of the cases […]
Gobernador Gregores lies between Perito Moreno and El Calafate. It is located on road 25 which is an all paved, good quality alternative to Ruta 40. We discovered this town when we took a detour off Ruta 40 trying to stay on paved road as long as possible. This detour will save you around 65km […]
After the drive from Bariloche to Perito Moreno City where we stayed overnight. We left early the next morning to make it to El Chalten in the afternoon. This section of our Patagonian road trip is the most uninhabited one on the way and you can easily drive 400km without passing any villages. The scenery […]
Perito Moreno city lies on Ruta 40 just in between Bariloche and El Calafate and it is not to be confused with the glacier which is also Called Perito Moreno. This town is a popular place to stay overnight for those traveling Ruta 40 all the way up or down. It has a good few […]