During our trip from El Chalten to El Calafate, we stopped at a country shop in the middle of no-where for a pit stop and coffee. Two local young girls, looking for a laugh, started hunting a hen and her brood of chicks with stones - trying to aim and hit them as the little chicks scrambled to take cover in the sparce foliage.
Their excited giggles and the terrified clucks of the mom hen brought out the hunter´s instinct in the local german shephard, who then also went after a chick. He was a better hunter than the girls and managed to eat one – just in time to be seen by the master of the house, who went mad. The dog ended up being chained and the girls left to their own devices. All this happened while buying a cup of coffee.
So there we were enjoying the sunshine and caffeine (we had been up since 4 am) when the girls, evidently bored and undisciplined, started hunting the fluffy chicks yet again. With rocks in hand and about to throw they turned around with very surprised expressions when simultanously 5 foreign adults (us and our travelling companions) screamed NO!! They then slunk away, waiting, no doubt, for us to leave. There is after all nothing to do. No TV or other kids for 100s of miles.
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