We got our bus to Calafate at 6am on the 9th, an hour late, leaving us waiting at 5am in the cold! The coach trip was a pretty arduous 20 hour journey, punctured by frequent stops at the Argentine and Chilean borders and a short ferry ride from Tierra del Fuego to the mainland. The journey took us through Chile for a few hours, and we were held up at Chilean customs as they were seizing food from most people. Some Swiss girls on our bus had a whole casserole of ingredients seized; we however sneaked some cheese in! We arrived in Rio Gallegos (where we had to change buses) early and had to wait 3 hours for our connecting bus, so we walked in to town. It was nice to see a real Argentinian town
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