The end of the world... well almost

Trip Start Mar 25, 2007
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Trip End Feb 16, 2008


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Sunday, December 30, 2007

So after a flight from Puerto Montt to Punta Arenas, we discovered that we couldnīt get the bus we wanted the next day, our only option was to take a bus the day after (new years eve) that arrived at 9.30pm....not what we were hoping for, so we ran around town trying to find a flight or a hire car or anything that would get us there a bit earlier...we even considered hitchhiking.

But there was nothing available, so we booked the bus for NYE and spent 2 days in a shitty hostel, in a shitty town because there arenīt enough buses out of there!

But we decided to go to the penguin colony, even though it was quite expensive. We didnīt expect much, but the penguins were really cool, just coming in from their fishing, with heaps of them really really close to the path in their burrows with their babies. It was a worthwhile trip, we also saw skunks and the crazy bird thats a lot like an emu, and met this canadian couple who felt sorry for us and took us out for dinner! So not a bad end to a bad situation.

The next day we caught our bus to Ushuaia, discovering along the way that Argentina had a time change on the 30th, and so were now one hour ahead of chile....so instead of arriving at 9.30pm it'd be 10.30pm...bugger.

Luckily we took drinks on the bus, and 4 buses later (they kept changing us so the drivers werenīt away from home!) we arrived in Ushuaia. We ran to our hostel, checked in and dropped our bags then made a bee line for Bryce and Muss's hostel....

It was good to see them, but we were on fire by then and donīt really remember much of the evening! The next morning (afternoon!) we all caught up and tried to find something for lunch....hard going as everything was either hideously expensive or closed. But we had a few more drinks at the irish bar and then bryce took us out for tea.

Bryce and muss left the next day, we spent about 4 hours trying to find a bus out of there (it was as hard to leave as it was to get there!).

The next day (we couldnīt leave then we had to wait another day!) we went to the national park, not a big national park, but we did manage to see a beaver (we may have gone down a closed track) and several beaver dams which were quite cool. That afternoon we also managed to book our 36 hour bus from Rio Gallegos to Buenos Aires, just to make sure we didnīt get stuck anywhere again for a while!

And then we made it to Puerto Natales!

The next day we
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