The first day of hiking in El Chaltén, but unfortunately the weather is bad. Bad weather means mainly two things here: it is extremely windy, and the mountains are hidden within clouds.
I didn't really want to do one of the long hikes with supposedly spectacular mountain views in these conditions, so I settled for three smaller hikes. The first one, to the lookout Los Cóndores, offers a view over the village:
The second one, Las Águilas, was another lookout close to the first one.
Finally, the third path went to a waterfall on the other side of the village.
But three best part of this day was that I solved the puzzle! The lovely smelling plant is called Ñire, or Nothofagus antarctica. One of the rangers at the national park information center knew immediately which plant I was talking about :-)
To celebrate, here's another picture of it:
I didn't really want to do one of the long hikes with supposedly spectacular mountain views in these conditions, so I settled for three smaller hikes. The first one, to the lookout Los Cóndores, offers a view over the village:
The second one, Las Águilas, was another lookout close to the first one.
Finally, the third path went to a waterfall on the other side of the village.
But three best part of this day was that I solved the puzzle! The lovely smelling plant is called Ñire, or Nothofagus antarctica. One of the rangers at the national park information center knew immediately which plant I was talking about :-)
To celebrate, here's another picture of it:
