Today is a rest day in El Chalten which is a base town for trekkers and hikers in the area.\u00a0 The town is only small with many hostels, hotels and restaurants. There are backpackers and travelers here from all around the world.\u00a0 We’ve come across Irish, Israeli, Russian, German, Dutch, American as well as Argentinian tourists. Those we spoke to were most interested in our trip, and hopefully some will follow our blog and our adventure as it unfolds.\u00a0 One of the bonuses of traveling is meeting interesting people from different countries.Some of our group chose to do a 7 hour hike, the majority did a 4 hour hike.\u00a0 We along with 3 others opted for a 37 km drive on a rather rotten dirt road (haven’t had enough of these), which took about 1.5 hours.\u00a0 Dave picked up a hitch hiker on the way as he had a spare seat.\u00a0 Chris is a delightful young German woman who stayed with us all day.\u00a0 We all spent the time happily chatting as we hiked for 2km mostly uphill climbing over tree roots & rocks to come out at a small glacier that was melting into an icy cold lake & running off into a very rapidly flowing stream down the mountain.\u00a0 Michael took off his shoes & socks & went paddling.\u00a0 It was beautiful & worth the road trip and hike.
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When we arrived back down at the car we had a cup of tea & a BBQ chorizo sausage in a roll cooked for us by the man who runs the camping area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"