Cumbres Del Martial Ushuaia

... came to £50 – I love this country. I realised last night that in the place I went to in BA, I accidentally tipped about the same as the meal cost – I’m all for generous tipping, but I think that might have just been throwing my money around. It’s hard trying to keep three currency exchange rates in your head at once though – the Argentinians use pesos, but you can also use USD in most places. I don’t ...

... but it was quite mild, frost on the ground but still mild.<br><br>Straight to bed as we had been on the road for 36 hours. Next morning woke up to get a proper look at the place, really beautiful. Could see snow capped mountains all around and the Beagle Channel could be seen from the hostel, gateway to Antarctica. Also me the cats, there was 3 of them swanning about the hostel. Scoped the city out in the morning, was a nice change to walk about in the snow ...

... of ```¿Who doesn`t like the garbage dump?`` to the streets. My first survey came up negative. Angie does not like landfills. So, she stayed behind. From there though, responses only got more positive. Taxi drivers like landfills; perhaps more to the point, they like dumb tourists who are willing to pay to get a ride to the landfill. This particular driver didn`t seem as shocked by the ...

... well, we hope to do it at some stage in öur lives" things. Anyway, we got chatting to this Kiwi guy on the Beagle Channel boat trip who´d got chatting to a travel agency in town, and they had last minute vacancies on the last ship of the season in two days time, at USD4,000. Oooooh, wonder if we could afford it?? Next day we said goodbye to our friends Lynette and Sichy after living it up with them for the past month. They ...

... bags outside the hut, didn't walk through the metal detector inside, then grabbed his bags without going through the screening. Very odd.<br><br>Found the Polar Pioneer, checked in, and found our staterooms. The ship is small, so there wasn't a lot to explore - though we did find our way to the flying bridge and the great views of Ushuaia.<br><br>We were supposed to depart at 18.00h, but various delays - mostly waiting for the pilot - pushed it back to 19.30h. In the meantime, we had our ...

... foxes and some kind of eagle. At first when we spotted three eagles by the water surrounded by people taking pictures we thought we were really lucky. However, just round the corner from our refugio there was a BBQ and there more than 20 of these eagles sat in trees squawking for meat. More like crows at home...than birds of prey. We did a couple of treks, one along the edge of a lake to the border with Chile. We sat on a ...

... bestimmten Punkt nicht mehr weit** und hat den Bettel hingeschmissen. Wir haben deshalb um halb vi** Uhr Nachmittags den Tag beendet und im Wald an ein** geeigneten Stelle das Zelt aufgestellt. Tag fünf war wied** bess**, wir sind um 11 Uhr los gewand**t. Es hat zwar teilweise auch wied** g**egnet, all**dings war es bess**es Gelände und wir kamen gut voran. Wir sind zwischen zwei und drei Uhr an d** Passhöhe angekommen wo wir eine wund**bare Aussicht hatten. Daraufhin sind wir den B**gen ...

... youth (ish) of the hostels all go out and party all night. I was brave and slept through the first night of festivities. I woke up the next morning and met a couple of young girls from Israel who invited me on their hike up to a glacier. I was feeling ok, and thought that it might feel good to get a good hike in. I warned them that I would have to take ...

... hit us, and the boat suddenly turned into a very small and wet roller coaster! At 1 point we nearly turned back, but the crew got through the rough seas and we hit calmer waters once we neared the island we were too visit (although I now realise I am not built for the sea, and am better suited to the land). We had an enjoyable walk around H island (so called as it looks like a rather fat H from the air), and the guide told us about the wildlife and the history of the ...

... sailed really close to another glacier. This was a more restful day and we even had a wine tasting session on board.<br><br>DAY 4<br><br>Early morning excursion to Magdalena Island to see the Magellanic Penguins. It was soooo windy but really excellent to be walking around amongst the little creatures. <br> <br><br>Once we were back on the ship it was full steam to Punta Arenas and onwards to Torres Del Paine. <br><br>