KauTapen Lodge Rio Grande
Rio Grande, Province of Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina
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Entering Tierra del Fuego
... Both country are paper and stamp happy......
When I asked an officer at the Argentine border why it was so complicated to travel from Argentina to Chile and back? he looked at me straight in the face and said " they stole our country" huummmm !
We arrived at the hotel in Rio Grande before anyone else of course :-)
And what did we have for dinner? ( steak )
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Tierra del Fuego
... be right all the time.
We were now getting close to the border with Chile, and of course you will know that Tierra Del Fuego is actually half Chilean and half Argentinian. So the journey from Rio Gallegos to Rio Grande involves 4 border posts, and a ferry crossing. This has to be meticulously planned to do it in a day so we spent the night at Lago Azul, some 15k from the first border so we could get a swift start. We camped at the top of ...
13 hours, 3 coaches and a boat
... we were all back on the bus and ready to go again, travelling only around 2 miles before we reached the Argentinean entrance border.
It was here that we had to surrender our passport to the bus conductor, which we hate to do, and wait for him to come back. We hate to do this for 2 reasons, firstly we had to do this a lot in Central America and it was often quickly followed by a ridiculous charge to gain entry, secondly we hate to do this at the moment ...
Estancia Viamonte
... in half, east and west) the road was paved and we made reasonable speed into Rio Grande. From here we went immediately 50km south to Estancia Viamonte. This was established in 1902 by Lucas Bridges, son of the first European settlers on the island and author of 'The Uttermost End Of The Earth', which is an autobiography and anthropological study on the native Yaghan people. His original cottage is a small guesthouse and his descendants run a 40,000 ...
Ushuaia - Rio Grande
... kaempften wir uns stetig in Richtung Rio Grande voran. 85 unbeschreiblich harte Kilometer bewaeltigen wir in nahezu 9 Stunden reiner Fahrtzeit! Auf der gesamten Strecke befand sich weder eine Tankstelle noch irgendein anderes Haus o.ae., in dem man hatte einkehren koennen.
Als wir um 08:30 Uhr endlich das Hostel Argentino erreichten, freute ich mich nach drei Tagen endlich wieder auf eine warme Dusche, ein weiches Bett ...
