Los Nires Hotel Ushuaia

... course and takes about an hour to get to the front. I explain as well as I can in broken Spanish what is going on since they donīt speak English at all. After 10 minutes of the guy furiously typing on the computer and talking to another dude, he tells us that the flight is canceled! But not to worry because we are booked on the next flight tomorrow. What!? We argue with him for a bit and try to get on another flight that day, but there is no other flight that day - the next one is tomorrow ...

... a bunk bed with no sheets or pillow case! The next morning we did an 8 hour day hike up the accencia, it was clear in the morning and we got to the top just before it started snowing. Our decent was snow then rain. The views were wonderful. It did feel like a mixture of places I have been in New Zealand, so I understand why people compare Southern Chile to New Zealand. El Calafate in Argentina was our next destination, here we visited the Perito Moreno Glacier. It ...

... at the far end of the building waving us through. We loaded up our car, and headed north on Hwy 3, towards the lakes.



It was a gorgeous day for a drive - the clouds lifted and we could see the peaks all around and in the distance. The road first went uphill, towards the ski centre, past a lovely campground near the river, then past a meadow which seemed to be an old lake, slowly filling in with silt. We went past the ski centre: one could only see the chair lift at the ...

i just got back from a week in Ushuiah, which is the southermost city in the world at the very tip of Argentina. We were actually on the tectonic plates that technically made us in Antartica... so crazy! It was pretty cold and windy the whole time, but it was the most incredible trip Iīve ever taken!!! It was with my entire ...

Day 5 on the Ship Polar Pioneer Hello, Hola, Privyey, Kon nichiwa, Jak sie masz and Gday, Well here we are at long last for some of us the wait has been over a year since booking and for me over 30 years of dreaming. The wharf was abuzz with excitement and energy as we approached the ship it was one of the smaller ships at dock but this just added to the feeling of adventure. We pulled away from the dock and all were either on the bow ...

... for the next day and explained the hikes in the park. He was a fellow fisherman we discussed sea brown trout and catching the big one and Alaska. Went upstairs to drink wine. I got drunk again with Mallory &Bryce along with Mike and Grant. Then went to play ******* holland version (twos are best card and 10's clear no socials). Went out to the irish pub. Had a dark beagle channel southern most microbrew?? Lunes 16/2/09 Woke up late 9:45 ...

... tommorrow afternoon. We has our huge European breakfast this morning. While we are gone to Anarctica we maybe come Great Uncle and Great Aunt.for the first ttime, Many years ago I become a uncle in Africa and didnt know it for 2Ą3 weeks, But with the internet my brother will send a blog message to our blog so we will find out, we know she will be a girl.

... pretty cool. Generally it was quite expensive. We will compare to the rest of the trip but most things were about 75% more expensive than they were in BA 2 years ago. Maybe this is part of the cost of gas going up the last 2 years ( last 4 months not withstanding) or the remoteness of it, but hostels at 50 pesos/night is more than we paid in BA, RIO or outside London 2 years ago. A trip to see some penguins was over $70 US. Cool main strip (San Martin ...

... we crossed over to this island at the bottom of South America. It made us realise how lucky weīve been with the weather as we canīt remember the last time it rained. But itīs raining now and has been on and off for the last 24 hrs. Ushuaia is a real town, not made up solely for tourists like the last 2 we visited. Looks like a proper ...