We were quite literally blown into the Patagonian hiking capital of El Chaltén, Argentina. After descending from the El Calafate bus, we...

Huge vistas aside the dusty unmade roads, inhospitable weather changes, horses and stray dogs also make it feel like the desolate Wild West.

..this is just one of those things about South America; sometimes things just don’t work as they should - no reason for it. Call it a quirk.