If there’s one thing I didn’t know is that one can easily cross a boarder on foot! We already had the experience when crossing from Chile to Bariloche and back but we also hitchhiked which helped us go through. This time, there are no buses possibilities between Chile and Argentina (because of high taxes) and in order to avoid losing time commuting through other boarders further up north or south, we decided to pick up our courage and head to the boarder ready to walk it through. After being lucky to having found someone who could bring us to Chile Chico (closest town to the boarder, 3-4h drive from Rio Tranquilo – see the beautiful road we had on the pictures below) we started walking to the boarder, through it and then to the bus station of the next town. A roughly 10km walk with all our gear, and stiffness from our hike of the day before. Having an inflamed knee, back pains and foot pains from my shoes the walk wasn’t very enjoyable, especially when both countries who have their boarders right in front one of the other decide to force everyone to take a 5km loop between the two boarders instead of a direct pathway! But we finally made it to the bus station of Los Antiguos on time to catch a night bus to el Chalten, what a relief! And a pride to have walked all of these km despite everything that could have prevented me from doing it!
The feeling of walking in the middle of nowhere almost alone to a boarder to cross to another country was something unique though, un unprecedented feeling. I enjoyed it very much (although when we tried to cut the path through the dried river and camp to gain some km I felt like an illegal refugee, that was weird…!
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Mars 2017
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