Patagonia
El Calafate, on the shore of Lago Argentino, makes a great base for trips to southern Patagonia. It has a new airport (built in 2000) and has bus connections to the other areas we wanted to see. Our first stop was El Chalten, and we took a Chalten Travel bus to and from here.
In Torres del Paine, we did some hiking and took a boat tour across Lago Grey to view the Glaciar Grey up-close. We also enjoyed the local wildlife, including guanaco and rhea. We stayed at the awesome Lago Tyndall hotel, which has an awesome view of the cluster of mountains in the park. After leaving the park, we took the eastern road back to Puerto Natales, which was a fair bit smoother than the western road. We then took the bus back into Argentina and immediately caught our flight from El Calafate to Ushuaia in the southern tip on the island of Tierra del Fuego.
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This map shows our bus and car route in red. We flew in and out of the El Calafate airport, which is just to the east of town. The white line on the map is the border between Chile and Argentina. |
Our transportation in Patagonia