Los Cauquenes Resort and Spa Ushuaia

... at them from the bottom, and then hiked up to the top to do the upper trail along the top of the falls. We took lots of pics, but no video since it was raining off and on and the video camera is not waterproof like the still camera. It was really really great. Afterwards Amy and I decided that this was probably the coolest and most spectacular thing we have seen on this trip. It beats out even Machu Picchu in our minds (and MP was awesome!)

We took the bus back starting Thursday ...

... i had a feeling that my exit out would be sabotaged by some means. Saying that it was nice to take a break after the trekking and i got to spend st patricks day in one of the 3 irish bars in the little place...with the next day deleriously hungover staggering around a lovely national park, intoxicating the indangered flowers with one breath. finally the day of the plane up north shelley and i might as well have skipped to the airport, after an ...

... crossing back into Argetina and following gravel road to the most southern city in the world, Ushuaia. We really wanted to come here to just see what was here at the bottom of the map we´d seen since we were kids. It is famed for plains that merge into rugged snow capped mountains and fjords carved out by massive glaciers from previous ice ages. We saw vast prairies with heaps of guanecos (smaller versions of llamas), rheas ...

... poor 23/22E seemed to speak neither and must have felt awful being a ping-pong between the other two. The purser, bless her, solved the problem by returned 23E to his original seat, then moving someone else into 22E, so each had a companion. Seemed a very Solomon-like solution to me.



The flight to IAD was very bumpy - but I did manage to get some sleep, interrupted periodically when 22C and 23C engaged in seatback-and-knee wars ... but, other than that, a perfectly reasonable flight.

... handige manier gevonden om in zijn dagelijkse behoefte te voorzien. Elke wandelaar die van zijn welverdiende boterham/koekje plus uitzicht ging genieten, werd verblijd met een warme knuffel en enorme droopy ogen. En weg was de helft van je traktatie. Maar we hebben in ieder geval de fotos nog. Toegegeven, het is even een stapje terug na de fotos van Braziliaanse carnavals koninginnen, maar wij hebben het in ieder geval erug ...

... the harbour and the steep mountain chains. On the docks several huge cruise ships are anchored to head to Antarctica - also in our hostel were several people heading there (6000 US$ for a 10 day cruise) ... Later I met up with Linda and we decided to take a tour to a penguin colony the next day if that would be alright with Nicola (a german girl, that was arriving that ...

... look and feel like the last city on Earth, we both like it, but still unsure as to why we do. It has a certain decaying charm, that some seaside towns have, but has the advantage of being surrounded by mountains on one side, and the Beagle channel on the other, and again is breathtaking for this fact. The town its self is spread out and up into the hillside, so plenty of steep roads to stroll around (You would hate it mum), there is 1 main street which the houses most ...

... si, Aeroporto. - Solo "Aeroporto"? - Si, si, "Aeroporto". We go outside, no bus, no nothing. And it was raining hard. With other miserable travelers of the same and other canceled flights we formed a nice herd that went from here to there in search of the bus. Finally we found some buses and talk to the drivers outside. - Is this the bus to hotel "Aeroporto"? - Which hotel "Aeroporto"? - Hotel "Aeroporto". - All hotels ...

... land stammen von d** Expedition F**dinand Magellans, d** im Oktob** 1520 als **st** Europä** die nach ihm benannte Magellanstraße entdeckte und mit drei Schiffen auf dem Weg zu den Gewürzinseln (Molukken) durchfuhr. D** von ihm während d** üb** 20 Tage dau**nden Passage beobachtete Schein d** Lag**feu** d** Ureinwohn** gab d** Inselgruppe den Namen.) Die Fahrt wird etwa 12 Stunden dau**n, ganz schoen lang...ab** die Sonne scheint und es scheint ein schoen** Tag zu ...