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15/1/2018 bus from El Chalten to Los Antiguos

I feel awful after the heavy drinking. And we have to pack and last till the evening to get a bus to Los Antiguos. 

I stayed in the hostal lobby pretty much the whole day. We spoke with another Czech couple traveling the world and Denisa went for a hike to Mirador del Torre. 

Around 18:00 we left the hostal and stopped in a small coffee place. The bus Cal-Tur is scheduled for 7:30pm, we got to the bus terminal at 7 and the bus left at 7:50pm. There were another 2 buses (Marga Taqsa, Chaitén travel) leaving around the same time. We had no seats numbers and the bus was full. Around 15 loud girls from probably Israel held many places to their group, so we could not sit together with my wife. It is a normal bus and there is a small toilet with a big sticker saying “the toilet is for liquids only”. And a big sticker at front, saying “please don’t take your shoes off”. 


At 21:20 we stopped in a village called Tres Lagos and people could go to buy some drink or food to a supermarket next to the bus stop. We continued after 20 minutes, at 21:40. The road is unpaved and the bus goes like 20 km per hour. At 01:30am another stop at petrol station at Gobernador Gregores and at 02:00am continues. I felt asleep, so I don’t remember other stops, but around 7:40am we stopped at a bus terminal in Perito Moreno...

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