Archive for the 'South America 2008' Category

I’ve gone through all our GPS tracks and uploaded maps (where available) and satellite views of the trips we did during our holiday.
Have a look through the blog entries from South America 2008 to see the map info - I’ve uploaded them as images.
If your screen resolution makes the map and satellite images look a bit [...]

Just a quick note to say we just arrived home from our 6 week tour of Patagonia.
We had a fantastic time - really enjoyed our trip and are glad we did it.
We would love to go back and explore some of the areas of Patagonia we didn’t get to spend more time in at some [...]

I’ve now uploaded photos from the rest of our trip:

Day 21 - Puerto Natales
Day 22 - Puerto Natales and Torres del Paine
Day 23 - Puerto Natales and Parque Nacional Bernado O’Higgins
Day 24 - Puerto Natales to El Calafate
Day 25 - El Calafate
Day 26 - El Calafate and Glacier Perito Moreno Ice [...]

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 [...]