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 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. […]
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 […]
After staying a few days in Bariloche we stared our journey down south. We figured we won’t be able to drive all the way down to El Chalten in one go from Bariloche so we did split the trip into to sections. The first section is to drive down until Perito Moreno city from Bariloche, […]
Cerro Campanario is a hill about 15km away from Bariloche with the best view over the Bariloche lakes and hills area. Unfortunately it is too far away to walk there from Bariloche city so try getting on an organized tour or rent a car. I drove there myself. There is a chairlift that takes you […]
Ruta 40 is one of the most iconic Argentinian highways stretching across Argentinian Patagonia consisting of paved and unpaved sections. Between Bariloche and El Calafate the unpaved section is around 70km long at the time of writing ( 2017 Dec ) the rest of the road is paved. The unpaved section is located between Gobernador […]