Los Acebos Ushuaia

... falls in the beginning where the guy was pushed over the falls - thatīs Iguazu. Funny side note - they play the soundtrack from the Mission at the park in some of the public areas.

The day we arrived in town we went to the Falls in the afternoon and hiked out to the area called Devilīs Throat (Garganta de Diablo). Amazing! This is an area where three sides of a river converge and crash down as one falls. It is mind blowing. The next day we hiked along the lower trail of the falls to ...

... with a stop at a farm where we went horse riding.. (owe!) Haven't done that in like 10 years! I loved Buenos Aires in the beginning (and we were staying at this nice hotel which helped!) It was such a nice city, one where you could see yourself living. I pretty much spent my time shopping, though I went to the cemetry where Evita was buried. Honestly though, I don't understand why a cemetry is a tourist destination and I just felt weird and disrespectful, and couldn't wait ...

... etc. there was a real sense of claustophobia down there, and i blamed this on my city roots... as soon as i arrived i want to book my ticket out... which i did however a slip of the spanish tongue made me get my dates confused and i booked a day later than intended..It was hard also as it is the place that people go to to go to antartica, and without a few spare grand it my pocket this wasnt possible.... i seemed to spend a lot of time waiting there ...

We left El Calafate and Southern Patagonia and headed for Tierra Del Fuego, actually a large island on the southern tip of the continent, some of which is in Chile, some of it Argentinian land. While Lynette and Sichy chose the quick/ easy/ expensive option to fly, we elected to take a 20 odd hour scenic bus journey. This meant we had to cross from Argentina into Chile, cross a ferry in the bus, then drive for a few hours ...

... to have a drink and a nibble. We only had 20 minutes or so, but it did help us relax.



After a final hand-check of ourselves and our baggage, we finally boarded. We were amused by a little drama near us. Two single men each wanted three middle seats to themselves. 23C had a person in 23E, who he convinced to move to 22E. But then 22C had a fit, protesting that the man was in the other seat, and there he should stay. There was lots of yelling, in both English and Spanish ...

... om zulke schone lucht de longen in te pompen. Adembenemende uitzichten. We hebben gewoon een sneeuwballengevecht gehouden, niet te geloven. Oke, is dan ook niet waar, maar heb wel verkleumde vingertje van de kou gehad. En wij die hitte in Rio maar vervloeken, vooral īs nachts. Op de berg had Lisenka weer haar gebruikelijke mannelijke vriendje opgedoken, dit keer een blonde, maar ik voel me niet bedreigd hoor. Deze knaap had ...

... your shoe off bus" :)) already booked a hostel for me it was quite easy once I arrived in Ushuaia ... Besides the little problem, that my luggage didn't turn up on the baggage carousel and had to be searched in the airport building. Since I had an afternoon for myself I decided to take a quick tour of the city - Ushuaia is situated right at the sea in a small patch ...

... to be elsewhere. But it was great fun, no funny walks after wards, and the asador was incredible. We left El Calafate, and the great staff at the America del sur Hostel (surely the biggest bunch of loonies we have ever met, but great fun, and made the stay in the hostel so brilliant), and took a short plane trip to El Fin de Mundo (End of the World), Ushuaia. It is the southernmost city in the world, and the next stop after here is Antartica. And to be honest it ...

... Athens - Rome, all ok. In Rome we were informed at the boarding gate that our flight Rome - Buenos Aires of 22:00 was cancelled and we would fly the next day at 10:00am. At least the delay was not that big to miss the Buenos Aires - Ushuaia flight the day after. The very informative Alitalia personnel told us to just go outside and take the bus to hotel "Aeroporto". - Is this the name of the hotel? "Aeroporto ...

05.12.2008 Um 7.00 Uhr klingelt d** Weck** und wir gehen fruehstuecken. Naja, ich trinke nur einen Tee, weil ich keine Lust auf komisches Brot mit komisch** Marmelade habe. Hach, wie v**misse ich das deutsche Brot...schnief... Auf dem Weg zur Bushaltestelle kaufen wir noch 3 leck**e Croissants ein, wieso packen die sowas nicht auf den Fruehstueckstisch??? Um 9.15 Uhr dann startet uns** Bus in Richtung Ushuaia, welches inmitten vom Feu**land liegt. (Erste B**ichte üb ...