Puerto Rio Tranquilo

Puerto Rio Tranquilo is a nice little town with only a few streets located next to Lago Gral Carrera in Chile. The Gral Carrera lake is the second biggest lake in South America. This small town is mainly famous for the Marble Caves tours originated from here. Everything revolves around the port area where you […]

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The Marble Caves @ Puerto Rio Tranquilo

The marble caves are located near Puerto Rio Tranquilo town along the Carretera Austral in Chile. There are organized boat trips leaving from Puerto Rio Tranquilo or you can also do an organized kayak trip which takes longer and costs more. The boat trip costs 10.000CLP and it is the same price regardless which tour […]

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El Calafate

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 […]

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Ruta 40 – El Chalten to El Calafate

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. […]

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Ruta 41 – Lago del Desierto

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 […]

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