Archive for February, 2008

Up at a reasonable time this morning to finish our packing and discard the last of the gear we wouldn’t need for the return trip.
Decided to wear our Teva’s on the plane rather than our boots - also pulled out our Thermarest pillows to carry on, so there’s plenty of room to pack the boots [...]

Up reasonably early this morning to finish our packing and check out of the hostel and book a taxi to the airport.
Ushuaia, Argentina
Our flight to Buenos Aires left a bit later than the 12:05pm scheduled time. At least it was a direct flight - about 3.5 hours.
Ushuaia, Argentina
Our transfer driver was waiting for us when we arrived [...]

Slept in today - decided to have a slow day and just do some stuff around town.
Headed out late morning and visited Museo Fin del Mundo (End of the World Museum) about the history of the area and the town of Ushuaia.
One interesting part of the museum was a collection of stuffed birds (and a couple of [...]

Got up a bit later than we had planned this morning - but managed to catch a 10:30am bus out to the Tierra del Fuego National Park - only 20km from town. We weren’t sure what the weather would be like - the forecast was for 14 degrees
We started off walking around Lago Roco until [...]

We slept in a bit this morning - breakfast was served until 10:30am, so there was no reason to rush! I was still feeling really tired and didn’t feel like rushing out - so we lazed around the room and Leanne headed out to buy some postcards and look in some shops while I had a [...]

Breakfast was early - 7am this morning, but we had to have our bags packed and sitting outside our rooms before we went so that the crew could take them out to the dock for us. We finished our packing and then headed down to breakfast. It was a bit quiet - many people had already [...]

Just a quick note to let you know we arrived in Ushuaia, Argentina after our 4 night cruise - it was fantastic. We managed to land on Cape Horn (something they only get to do around 60% of the time due to bad weather). We were very lucky - as the last Zodiacs were returning, the [...]

A very early start this morning - we had to be up and in the sky lounge by 7am ready with our life jackets and gear for our excursion to Cape Horn. This was the highlight of the trip and we were all eagerly waiting for the chance to visit the “end of the world”. [...]

Woke a bit later this morning - just before breakfast at 8am, and were delighted to see a dolphin swimming alongside the boat just outside our cabin window - the water was so clear, we could even see him when underwater! The rain had stopped and it looked like we might be able to spend some [...]

Day 2 of our cruise - up early for an 8am breakfast - full hot buffet complete with scrambled eggs and bacon - pity the bacon was very salty … we’ve noticed that a lot of the food here has a lot of salt.
The weather had turned wet and miserable so we couldn’t really see much [...]