Chalet Chapital Hotel Punta Arenas

... in writing outlining all my reasons for going (etc). I`m sure with some planning, more time and some pre-prepared BS (letters with some impressive `borrowed` letterheads) it would be very possible. Not this time, unfortunately, no time.<br><br>And how was Punta Arenas? What a sh*thole.<br><br>Oh, and the penguins. As I stupidly arrived on a Friday evening and the Navy is only open short Mon-Fri hours, i was stuck there for 4 days....so i decided to ...

... and had we have known the quality we would have taken the dorms as with so few passengers those in the dorms got to get a dorm bunk with a porthole. Oh well. This was, my dream trip and I was very excited about the ferry trip. Wayne was cautious as he suffers seasickness and we had purchased motion sickness tablets in Pt Varas the day before. The ferry was calm on the water as we were sheltered by the many islands going south down the fiords. The weather got progressively ...

... I was in Parque Nacional Bernardo O´Higgins... you Sligo readers may recognize the name from the statue of the man himself which stands on the bank of the river - Ambrosio O´Higgins was a Sligo local who ended up being the first Viceroy of Peru (I did say, way back in B.A. that every S. American country seems to have a famous Irish person in its history!), and Bernardo, his son, went on to be a very significant ...

... my local bike shop (see a pattern here?), where the Rodrigo at MotoEscazu inserted a tube into my tubeless tire and filled it with Slime, and anti-leak substance, and also replaced my rear wheel bearings. That should keep my tire sound for the final gravel leg of my trip. The only thing is, I don't carry a tube patching kit, just plugs for tubeless tires, and anyway patching a tube on a motorcycle tire is a ...

... our chances. It was far better with hard packed gravel. The distance traveled to catch the ferry was longer but the time was by far less. As we approached the ferry we drove right onto it. Our timing could not be any better. The ship lifted it's ramp and we crossed the strait quickly. We carried on towards Punta Arenas stopping for some pictures of a mine field. Mike pulled away like a bat out of hell and I followed in no rush. He was out of sight in less ...

Hi everyone, and yes I am still alive and reactively unscathed after completing the W trail at Torres DE Paine. I suppose you want to know what the W stands for? Well it is a trail that you take that resembles a W, there are also other tails called the circuit, the tortoise shell and the Q. However you either need 10 days or more, to be insane or love the extreme weather that I experienced on the 4th day. However lets start with day 1, shall we! The weather was perfect, blue ...

... die Gletscherstraße. Wir ist 208 Seemeilen gefahren. Der 3. Tag: -&gt; Route = Murray Kanal - Nassau Bucht - Wollaston Inseln - Besuch des Kap Horns (Das mythische Kap Horn "Cabo de Hornes" und seine angrenzenden Inseln haben wir im Morgengrauen erreicht. Die See war unglaublich ruhig. Wir setzen an Land und genossen für eine Stunde den Rundgang auf dem heutigen Nationalpark. Die Intensität ...

... bore yourself with eating. At least the 36-hour bus ride to rio Gallegos is actually on schedule, not like a certain train running between Bamako and Dakar that arrives a day late, and then dumps you on the side of the tracks at 5am, that smell of compost your own, but fortunately there's always a hotel-cum-*****house still open working the night shift as long as you don't mind paying for a night that's already gone and best ...

... by at El Calafate which I must say is a lovely small town that's definitely worth a visit. We had a cold glacier beer, then hopped into the van for the long drive back.  We were treated to another absolute highlight the following day: the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. It was another early start, this time at 7am, and we drove northwards from Puerto Natales. It was another glorious day: clear and sunny, but cold and windy. The Torres del Paine NP is ...

... during the day and make elaborate dinners in the evenings. A musuem telling of the wave of missionaries is patronising and patriarchal to me and I am again disappointed that religion moves around in this little bubble taking their own beliefs and pulling them swiftly over those of others who seem blinded by the promise of food, warmth, shelter...an idea of a ´better life´....the ...