guys greetings from chile el cafayate or califos oh my gosh
oh my gosh yeah i wish we were insulted right now i'd be wearing shorts and a t-shirt and i'd be
sipping on wine no i'm just kidding actually we're we're still thrilled to be here in patagonia it's
just cooling down rapidly it should be warming up really well that's what patagonian weather really
is all about though i mean one day it's warm and it's not as windy next day it could be raining or
considerably colder like it is right now yeah so today like we mentioned in our last video
it's a travel day we are continuing onwards to el chalten argentina however we had to check out of
our airbnb early because they have another guest coming and they have to clean so but they were
really nice in terms of letting us keep our bags yes yeah so we just walked into town we walked
into town we found a little place where to have brunch it's called olivia's bagel shop yeah and
in there it was all tourists using the internet yeah awesome yeah we noticed they had they had
fast internet yeah they had great bagels oh my bagel with um salmon and cream cheese and avocado
was delicious you had avocado toast but they toast yeah we started off with coffees we moved on to
tea then cake oh you got cake that's right oh my gosh we were we were gobbling up killing time and
gobbling up a lot of food yeah and we killed a lot of time because now it's time to go get our bags
make our way to the bus terminal um figure out how we can print some tickets and onwards we go yes
i've already loaded the bike okay
hello guys we have made it to el chalten argentina greetings from el chalten patagonia oh my gosh
so excited to be here it's beautiful here the chicken capital of argentina right it sure is
we're gonna be doing a lot of trekking over the next six days but we realized we didn't give you
a whole lot of information about how we got here how much we paid where we're staying so let's do
the technical stuff technical details so we took the bus from el calafate argentina with a company
called chelten travel yeah we paid a thousand pesos which at this time let me tell you how
much it is in dollars give you the exact caught off the press moments 16 us dollars per person
that's a good deal so yeah a three hour bus ride it was um you also stop halfway which is really
cool you can stretch your legs go to the bathroom there's a tiny fee if you want to use the washroom
in this little hotel but if you buy something you get to go for free it's a place called la leona
it's a hotel located about halfway yeah so yeah we got here our hotel was basically down the street
from the bus terminal so we were able to walk yeah we're staying at a place called vertical
lodge so 54 us dollars a night 54 us a night booking.com it includes breakfast
yeah but beautiful views we'll show you the breakfast in a future vlog for sure but um
it's great that we have it that's one last thing to worry about in terms of groceries are going out
we should also mention that something that i thought was really cool is when we pulled
into the town before we went to the bus stop they took us to the information center the
basically the park information center yeah so this town is located inside a national park
which is kind of unusual so right at the entrance we stopped got some information they told us the
rules they gave us some maps so that we can you know head off and go hiking on our own
and what's a little bit different when you visit los glaciates national park from the north side
is that you do not have to pay an entrance fee yeah so the other park what was 800 pesos yeah
and 400 outside yeah 400 for uh for a national here nothing um yeah there's so many trails it's
going to be so exciting it's just going to be like a lot of do-it-yourself stuff yeah we're
here so i can't wait and tomorrow's going to be a nice weather day so we're going to
get right at it and now we're going to give you a little room tour so you can see where we're
staying i like this place it's very spacious so i think you guys will too hello room tour room
guys i gotta admit this is so much better than i was expecting yeah i just we've stayed in some
some smaller hotels recently i was like oh we might be a little cramped in here not at all
this place is massive yeah i'm gonna take a step back just so you guys can see yeah so the thing
that really stands out is look at the size of this bed i think it's a king-sized bed oh my oh my oh
someone's ready for a nap and the mattress is no i'm actually i'm ready for food okay forget that
so the bed is fantastic if we move over here we have a nice little dresser right hanging up
our clothes left us our towels safety deposit box oh guys it's so nice to have a work desk
we can do some video editing here and the views let me show you guys the videos audrey go bye
and if you just flip around here we're gonna head into the bathroom that's the last place to show
you so again this is actually a very spacious bathroom too but when i sink we have the bidet
we have the toilet and we have a shower with a tub oh my oh my so yes it's gonna be fantastic um
uh it's just i'm so happy that we have some space in our room i don't know why
i was just envisioning this this time it looked smaller in pictures it did it did
they had very nice photos of the property but it just didn't look as spacious as it is so
it's such a nice surprise and um yeah we're very happy with uh with the location and everything
breakfast included and guys we're hungry we're going to go get something to eat but also
this the cool thing about coming in december is you get extended daylight hours because it
is the summer and just being at the very south of patagonia i believe it's like it's like daylight
at like 5 00 a.m and sunsets around 10 or 10 30. so yeah it's perfect so we're going to get
some food and then we're going to go a little do a little bit of hiking there's a lookout point a
mirador and we should have excellent views of of the town and some of the mountain ranges here so
hopefully we'll be shedding some of the weight we've gained over the last few weeks while we're
trekking here oh my goodness i've just been eating way too much on this trip guys i've been wearing
leggings every day for good reason my jeans don't spit so yeah we need we need to move a
lot while we're here we'll move our skeletons oh your skeleton yeah move your body yeah that's a
bit of an inside joke from a previous trip but uh yeah let's go get some food and do some tracking
i didn't know this place did pizzas like that's not why i brought us here it just looked like a
cool place hello greetings from patagonicus this is the first restaurant we saw it looked really
cool it's nice inside to do craft beers and stuff like that not going to have any because
we are hiking a bit but we did find ourselves a pizza right here this is the napolitana with ham
yeah eight slices 500 pesos good price it smells nice and garlicky oh it does i am very hungry so
yeah just gonna have some pizza do a little bit of groceries i think and then we're gonna do a hike
sunset is officially 9 45. what time is that right now it is 6 47 so we still have three hours okay
we do kind of have to go hang a bit though let's make it happen let's make it happen
well guys we are back in the guest house briefly just to drop off the groceries we stopped at the
supermarket i mean i don't know i don't know if you can call it it feels more like a general store
food wise i would say the selection is beyond limited and you had read online that people
recommended like buying your food supplies in calafate and bringing it with you but we didn't
think it would be this limited especially if you're into fruits and vegetables but we didn't
we did find apples and bananas so uh a little bit of a win there but they're expensive like a dollar
per apple i was like oh okay yeah they're 40 pesos yeah yeah about 75 cents but still yeah more than
what we're used to paying so yeah that's one thing we've learned here groceries are expensive
not a lot of variety another thing we've discovered is that there's like no internet no
almost basically basically in in the town there's basically nothing there's not much internet out
here but i mean what come out here to hike so we're gonna do that so so as a heads up i was just
told like when we checked in that your data on your mobile isn't gonna work and it hasn't we've
been here a few hours i've not been able to get a signal also the wi-fi goes down constantly like we
were just trying to process the payment for the hotel on my credit card and we've tried multiple
times this afternoon the internet finally worked for that finally worked so but there is free wi-fi
in the central plaza so if you want to like check your emails and you've got patience and you've got
time you can go sit there and do your thing took us a few times to connect but while we were having
our pizza we were able to yeah and yeah the pizza would you mentioned the price that was over 600
pesos yeah it's just so it's over 10 bucks perfect little snack for us to welcome dinner for us
yeah hiking and yeah we're losing daylight hours so we need to get cracking and i want to say i'm
not complaining about the lack of wi-fi because obviously we're here to do hiking and enjoy
nature it's just a heads up for you guys coming so you know what you're getting yourselves into
yes
do
well we have started our trek
we are making our way up to mirador de los condores which means the lookout of the
sun's condor down rapidly i know so we are trying not to jump too too much we're starting a bit late
yeah so supposedly it's 45 minutes to the top from the center of town and yeah
we're gonna try not to get too distracted taking photos we're not the only ones buzzer
beating this experience there's a family up in front of us so yeah we've got a little bit of
coffee i think we can do it i mean we got it we're going up there don't trip over this log
up there and it's just a kilometer the thing is it's steep wee bit steep i'm feeling it already
foreign
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hello hello guys hello we are back oh my gosh so tired it's late it's bedtime oh
yeah but what a great first impression of this town huh yeah you need to hike up and see it from
a vantage point like that it's amazing as the higher we got the more of the mountain ranges
revealed themselves yes and beautiful views of the town it looks so colorful because all the
buildings are painted different colors the booths are different colors yeah so it's nice compared to
el calafate this town it definitely has more of a frontier feel it's not nearly as big or developed
but it just feels like this kind of like this little oasis here in in a valley surrounded by
mountains it does it's amazing so i mean we're thrilled that we have six nights here we're
gonna be able to do so much trekking we've kind of already planned some of the tracks we want to do
and we've got gorgeous weather tomorrow so yeah we're just gonna get after it yeah tomorrow's
meant to be the best weather day so we're gonna try and do the longest hike yeah we're gonna be
seeing fitzroy the the famous if any of you have seen the patagonian gear yes mountain range yeah
fitzroy it's the yeah it's the iconic uh it's the iconic mountain out here so yeah at our
hotel they start serving breakfast 6 30 a.m so we're gonna try to be up early get a good start
we've been getting organized here charging batteries doing laundry by hand yeah so that's
gonna be more afternoon it's better afternoon not too glamorous not too glamorous anyways um
but yeah we're ready for bed i mean it's still daylight out but what is it like 10. well yeah
that's totally true i think it's it's past ten anyways thanks so much for watching guys
and we'll have some travel adventures from el chalten coming your way
you