Tuesday, February 9, 2016

December 12
El Chalten

Ahhhh! Finally...!Such a cute little town! They call it the "Argentina's trekking capital". A gnome like town, hotels- cabins style and coffee shops and a few houses all framed by the magnificent mountains. The Fitz Roy track was our first trek; 12 km, hard. We saw the glacier, lucky that the sky was blue! The snowy mountains, the river- emerald colour- running down....Day 2: our second trek; 10 km, even harder! took us to Lake Capri. And after 2 months of doing no activity at all; today I can't barely move! Very happy!!!! Day 3: just walking around the town- 10 blocks only- the weather is bad again...Day 4: rain and rain and rain...I didn't even put my head outside my home! It is cold, these kind of days really threw us off. These days are when we start talking about the children and how much we miss them and we question for how long we could keep doing this life and what we will do when we get home....We decided to engage in a new series marathon, welcome "The Leftovers" season 1!...Day 5: a spectacular day! sunny, warm...took the bike...27 km on a gravel road! I was feeling really good, very proud of such a hard day of physical activity, but....on our way back we took a detour, just an easy 500 mts walk to a waterfall; as we were contemplating the beautiful landscape a group of young Israelies (20ish) lazing around come over us and said: "can we take a photo with you"? we couldn't understand why, so we asked " we want to send the picture to our parents back home, so they can see that there are also older people here "! End of the day:(

We then spent a few days in El Calafate but inside our home as I got really sick....



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