El Chalten

This is the place to go trekking in Argentina. After a short bus ride from El Calafate we arrived in this very small town that is contained in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. What is so special about the hiking here is that it starts right from the towns main roads. Hikes are each about 8 hours for the long ones and can  be very easy walking to down right difficult sections. We chose to do the most difficult the first day. A roughly 20 km hike that has a killer 2 hour section in the middle. The payoff is seeing Laguna de los Tres with the snow capped Fitz Roy in the background. It was quite a hike but well worth it.

 One side note is that the water is so pure in the park that you can just pull it from the stream and drink it direct. No filtering.