El Chaltén was an ideal place to undertake a handful of smaller hikes. Initially we had intended staying at a nearby Estancia for volunteer work, but one week turned out to be too short of a period for being of help. Therefore we changed plans and pitched our tent at the local campsite for a series of days. The campground also offered a cozy common room with reliable internet connection, so we could use the rainy and windy days to start organizing our lives back at home. When the sun was out, we were hitting the trails visiting Laguna de los Tres, Laguna Torre and Chorrillo del Salta, a nearby waterfall. We met up again with Yaara, whom we had gotten to know on the Antarctica cruise, for some empanadas. And Marlen, whom we had met in La Paz, joined us for a hike and a delicious parrilla as well as some locally brewed beers in a comfy chalet-style restaurant. Never had we dwelled at one place as long as we did in El Chaltén; this was, however, lamentably also due to bad weather. Our stay in Southern Patagonia will end with our flight from El Calafate to Buenos Aires. As we were still not tempted to visit the glacier Perito Moreno from El Calafate on a tourist bus, we wanted to briefly rent a car and drive to the nearby Lago Roca to hike Cerro Cristal. As it had been raining heavily the previous days, the (gravel) road conditions were predicted to be bad and the rental company did not want to offer their cars for this drive! Hence, we had to spend two days in El Calafate where we enjoyed the shore of Lago Argentina.
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