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

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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  

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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

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