Costa Australis Hotel Puerto Natales

... the following day. Today is wednesday and we have still not left. Becs is still too poorly. Hopefully everything will be ok for tomorrow! Fingers crossed.<br><br>Footnote 1.<br>Anybody making a possible link between our food poisoning &amp; our seafood extravaganza should know that we were not the only people on the ship with the same symptoms, but we were the only people to stuff our bellies with an obscene amount of crazy undersea creatures!<br>

9th May 2009 Only a short visit to El Calafate, traveling back to Puerto Natales today by bus. We got up early enough to give ourselves time to climb the hill to the bus station only to find that the bus was late leaving. We finally left at 9am and set on our way. There was only a few others on the bus with us until we reached the office before the Argentina boarder, where the bus then filled up with what looked like a load of refugees. Daniel had gone to the ...

... floating past, like nature&#8217;s own ice sculptures. We set up camp next to 2 rocker dudes from &#8216;Three Bridges&#8217; who had attempted the circuit carrying their electric guitar (!!). We cooked some pasta, ate the chocolate and were lucky to be let into the refugio for a hot shower. Needless to say, sleep came quickly that night. <br><br>DAY 2 &#8211; trek to camping Italiano<br><br>We were hoping to set off by 8am but it soon became apparent that packing up ...

... knew what they were doing... it was not a promising start. Finally we got moving and headed towards the amazing mountains. I wont describe the whole trip as reading about walking wont be so interesting, but I will give some details. Total time - 6.5 days Distance covered - around 120km Pack weight - first day around 15kg, last day around 10kg Most memorable moment - watching the sun rise and colour the Torres del Paine Most ...

... you only have 6 hours to your destination, then super first class extreme executive buses with shrimp and champagne will be aggresively offered to you. Once your estimated travel time exceeds 24 hours, and you would actually NEED meals on the bus, they cease to be offered, and basically, there will be a dusty truck available. I have slowly realized that this is because most reasonable tourists in our position politely refuse when told they will be ...

... their own version (sung by the two of them) to"Chipi Chipi" (if you have seen the 'Motorcycle Diaries' you may know this rather chipper song). There were many times when he would talk rapid-fire at us and we would smile and laugh along with his own laughing and later wonder what he was going on about... I'm proud of my sea-legs and last the 4 day ride with no sickness...nosed along a little with some travel sickness tablets to smooth out ...

... code, but it made me feel better! <br><br>In business 1.01 terms, I just wasn't convinced that the benefits would outweight the costs; it would have to be a glowing vision of wonder to justify the tricky slog through the woods and up the slippery rocks to a viewpoint that I'd already had a ...

... after taking the picture, the last lunar eclipse of the moon of the decade was happening right over the volcano in the distance. Because it was unseasonably warm in the area, we didn't sleep very well, so we were a little groggy when we met our guide Nestor and driver Luis for a day in the island of Chiloe. We were picked up from our hotel at 8am and we made our way down Interstate 5, the same Interstate 5 that starts in Alaska, passes through ...

... dans le taxi, je me rends compte que j'ai une soeur qui s'appelle Nadia !! :-) Du coup, nous faisons les retrouvailles avec ma ptite soeur. Le lendemain (29 Janvier) nous laissons Claudia aller travailler et descendons la cote pour aller au centre ville. Finalement, le centre n'est pas si loin a pied. Une ptite journee de promenade a Puerto Montt... visite plus ...

... stock up on beer, wine, whiskey and Pisco (A local liquor very tasty with lemon) for the 'party boat'. The first thing we noted about the boat, out of it's 150 passengers, 80% were backpackers, this was going to be a fun trip. We had opted for the cheap accommodation, dormitories which held 26 people in what can only described as cramped claustrophobic conditions right in the bowels of the ship. We had a bed though and we weren't planning on spending that much time ...