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On the second day in El Chalten we took it easy with a late breakfast and some long conversations with a group of Brazilian people also staying at the hostel. Can you believe they hadn’t heard of Juninho! In the afternoon we took a hike to a waterfall which was mercifully close by.

We made the bus trip from El Calafate to El Chalten in about 3 hours. It would have been less if we didn’t have a toilet stop (this on a coach with an onboard loo). The reason to be in El Chalten was the walking and we had 3 days of it scheduled. The most

One of the highlights of the holiday…

I only have to look at a glacier and a bit snaps off and falls into the water. Now I only need to perfect capturing the snapping off moment on camera!

Argentina have started charging for entry to national parks and it’s not cheap. Nonetheless, this walk was alongside a coastal path and alternated between sunshine and snowstorms. It also included the iconic ‘post office at the end of the world’ . It sold special end of the world stamps and postcards with its own mailbox.

From Ushuaia it is possible to book on a boat trip to sail down the Beagle Channel. If you are lucky there will be some birds, maybe some sea lions and at the right time of the year maybe some penguins. We bought the tickets the day before and got there early for the big

A few kilometres outside of Ushuaia, on the side of a large hill lies the Hotel Arakur Resort and Spa. A few years ago, RATW finished at this hotel. We thought we would give it a look since the top of the hill had great views of Ushuaia and the Beagle Channel and there are