El Chaltén

We suspect that our car battery has died. Is this Karma? We have been lazy enough to drive to the town centre to grab a couple of empanadas for our 3-day trek and as we wanted to leave to drop our car at the camping place and start trekking, the car would not start.

There´s no car mechanic in el Chaltén, just a “Gomeria” (tyre repair), but luckily enough they have a battery charger. We´ve been waiting for 5 hours at the bakery in front of our car, and nobody appeared… Manana será otro día.

I´m not going to go into detail regarding the car rental´s reaction to our problem, because it is not worth it. I´m summarizing it as follows: work on your customer communication skills dearie, there´s room for improvement! Alternatively, let Jenny take over – she´s great with people, and very competent.Read more