Hotel Tierra Del Fuego Ushuaia

... ski slopes I make my way to my first couchsurfing (www.couchsurfing.org) experience. I am super hungry from my adventurous day so I grab an empanada, fast and easy. Alejandro and Esteben are delightful! We chat for awhile. They speak English very well and I enjoy hearing about their jobs as tour guides in the summer in Ushuaia. They are both from Buenos Aires and have been in Ushuaia for many years. This is ...

... em media, faz apenas 10 dias assim por ano. Sorte nossa. Fui ao centro "invernal" Tierra Nayor. Lah eh possivel realizar varias atividades na neve. Eu escolhi a caminhada com raquetes de neve e o trenoh.<br><br>A caminhada com as raquetes de neve dura umas duas horas e meia comecando numa planicie e entao entrando num bosque muito bonito e depois subindo uma montanha pequena de onde temos uma linda vista do vale. Dali voltamos ...

... car gas paid for, and the some, arrival was quicker than bus. It is not the usual backpacker activity but teeing off at the Salta Polo and Golf Course without the repetitious questioning of "where are ya from?, how long are ya traveling?" it is actually the perfect timeout. But for the occasional mower or the over zealous waving of my caddy from the previous day at the driving range everytime he saw me I completed a reasonable ...

... way up . The view from the top wasn`t bad although the glacier itself is really small. Still the first glacier I have ever seen. I spent the evening trying to map out my next two weeks all the way to Santiago. Getting around these parts is teduious, very tedious as I was about to find out over next week or so. Thursday, with time running out here I opted for two tours for some rapid sightseeing or speed tourism as ...

... Fuego but is populated with Lenga and Guindo trees. Lapataia Bay is an excellent location to observe water birds such as steamer ducks, kelp geese, albatros, grebes and diving petrels. In the small meadows within the forests there are large peat bogs and in the trees nearby the sphagnum moss and Darwin's Beard grows. This evening we dined on southern king crab and scallops fresh from the waters of the Beagle Channel.

... company with the only license to land amongst the penguin colony on the little island! It was really cool to see them so close up and they had 2 month old chicks who were loosing their baby fluff so there were penguin feathers blowing around everywhere! There were lots of penguins lying on their tummies having a mid afternoon nap and others ducking in and out of the water bobbing about in the waves. On the way back to the shore we saw about 6 ...

... another boat where they will get off and 2 scientists who have been down here awhile studying Orca whales will hitch a ride back to Ushuaia with us, This has been an incrediable trip and the staff are very good, have been very informative and have done a very good trip for us, Heck I feel safer here than I do in Phoenix at night, We have no TV, radio or newspapers , so dont know whats happening in the rest of the world, which isnt bad at all!!!!!

... in December so even if we had the will to go and part with our hard earned $200 USD it would be to get a noses-on appreciation of sea lion halitosis. There's a reason Sir David gets knighted and paid for his travels and I don't. So it's back out of the national park and back onto Ruta 3, general direction down. And the word for the day is WIND. Heaven's to Betsy I have never felt, let alone ridden, in anything like this before. It's a real fight for us to hold onto the bikes ...

... the same at home really). The sub-antarctic weather was changeable to say the least! In the space of 10 mins the temp could drop 20 degrees and in one day we had sun, rain, wind, snow and hail! All the kit performed well - we now know we can survive the toughest sub-antarctic conditions! We saw extensive damage to the forests all across the area from beavers - they made our trekking difficult and their dams didn´t even provide ...