Patagonia

It has been some time that we posted a new story, so here we are....
The last weeks we had spent in Patagonia, the south of Argentina, it is a lovely place but very very cold :-)

After El Calafate we went for 2 days to El Chalten, a small small village near El Calafate (only 4 hrs by bus) We left at 8 am in the morning and arrived before noon... Basically the town has 1 main street and that is it. We booked a hostel on the other side of the mainstreet and it was quite a challenge to get there (think wind wind wind and rain) But finally we got there. The room was great, we had a dorm and shared it with 2 other persons and the room had a private bathroom! This was the only good thing of the hostel, no entertainment was offered, no tv, dvd, games or whatsoever! This wouldn't be a problem if the weather was great.

El Chalten is famous for the Fitz Roy mountain and the hiking for this reason we travelled there, but we got such bad weather, that we almost couldn't do anything. We did to small hikes, 1 to Lago Capri (3 hrs) and the next day to the viewpoint "Mirador Condor de los Andes".
Unfortunately we didn't get to see Fitz Roy in the 2,5 days we were there :-(

The next stop was Ushuaia. The most Southern city in the world. The trip was quite tiring, we left El Calafate at 3 am and we arrived to Ushuaia at 11pm so you can imagine we went straight to bed :-)
To get to Ushuaia we had to cross 2 the argentinian border and 2 the chilean border. The first stop was the argentinian border and we had to show all our stuff (open our big backpacks etc..)
When we crossed the first 2 borders we had to take a ferry over the Beagle Channel to get to Tierra del Fuego!
The first day in Ushuaia we just relaxed and walked around town and got our "end of the world stamps" The second day we went to the National Parque of Ushuaia and hiked for 4,5 hrs which was really nice..... although we had snow.... loads of snow....
Further Ushuaia is a calm place and we just relaxed to get ready for our flight to Buenos Aires...

Last friday we had our flight with Lade from Ushuaia to BA.... with LADE, the army airline... :-)
The flight was ok but we are so used to buses that it is quite strange to be in an airplane....
Around 10 pm we arrived to BA on friday... had some dinner and slept... Saturday we wandered around S.Telmo for the last time waiting for our bus to Mendoza......

p.s. no photo's this time due to poor internet connections and not too many nice photo's :-)