Thursday 3rd December 2015 With Francesca and Alex, we woke up and decided to go for a hike to Piedras Blancas and Piedra del Fraile, do a loop and come back. Here is Alex, starting to walk on the path. On this map you can see in the middle Poincenot campground. From there here is … More El Chalten Hike – Day 2
Wednesday 2nd December 2015 With Nadine and Marcel, we woke up around 8am and started packing the bags to go hiking. My bag was huge. I felt like the girl in the movie “Wild” who has a monster pack, ahahahaha!!! -D I could not fit everything and I was only preparing for a trek of 4 … More El Chalten Hike – Day 1
Tuesday 1st December 2015 From the bus station, I walked to the hostel called Aylen Aike that Marcus had recommended me. Here was one of the street of El Chalten on which I walked. Wide streets with not much traffic yet. This place looked small, still not too touristy and very pretty. A secret gem! … More El Chalten
Monday 30th November 2015 afternoon The bus was a bit late. While waiting, I chatted a bit with Francesca. She had been teaching kids about sustainable development in Berlin in Germany but her project had finished and she had not found another job so she had joined her friend Alex on the part of his … More From Esquel to El Chalten
Monday 30th November 2015 We woke up around 7.40am with Fredrik and had brekky. At breakfast, Patrick, the French guy in his sixties hanging out at Las Natalias was chatting about the terrorist attacks with another French traveller who had just arrived the night before. I was happy to hear them and join the conversation. … More Esquel and La Trochita
Sunday 29th November 2015 With Fredrik, we woke up at 7am, had some fruits and headed to Futaleufu town centre to ask other rafting companies if they were going for the full-day. Crossing the gate out of Las Natalias to walk towards the town centre. First, we enquired at Bochinche, which is a Tibetan-owned company with … More Rafting the legendary Futaleufu river!
Saturday 28th November 2015 We woke up around 9.15am. Fredrik was up faster and went to check if Francisco had opened his fruit store but he had not yet. He came back and started preparing brekky. I got up and went to see if it was now opened. It was still closed so I walked to Chaitur … More From Chaiten to Futaleufu
Friday 27th November 2015 We had the ambitious plan the next morning to be in the kitchen with bags packed already at 8.30am, to eat and then shoot off to find another hostel at 9am and somehow to be on the road around 10am. The alarm rang at 8am but neither Fredrik or me moved. We … More Chaiten Volcano
Thursday 26th November 2015 We left the hostel around 1pm and started driving on the Carretera Austral. We stopped after 10-15 minutes to take pictures of the surroundings. It was stunning and we could already understand why the Carretera Austral is so legendary. We kept driving and passed this sign telling us we were at … More Pumalin National Park
Wednesday 25th November 2015 With Fredrik, we had decided the night before to not do much that day and sticked to that plan. It was great to spend a day chilling out. We woke up around 9am and had breakfast with Niels and Aleyna. I still had a really bad cold and Lluis the owner of … More Castro to Quellon to Chaiten
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