El Chalten

Well, let's assume you are in El Calafate. You are almost in the edge of the world so you surely want to take advantage of that situation. That's where El Chalten appears.

What is El Chaltén (original name has the accent): tourism, and growing fast due to high volume of international tourism that comes year after year

There are a lot of lodging options even when El Chalten is geographically isolated.

To get to El Chalten, you must go first to El Calafate –by plane or by bus- and from there, by road 220 Km. through the patagonic steppe, along Argentino and Viedma lakes.