Since the weather forecast has been soo bad here (even the company doing the tour said we would need to pray for a miracle to get a nice day), none of us were really expecting to go and do the Volcano. So, you can imagine what Brucey Bonus it was when we woke up to a beautiful, clear day yesterday. Woke up, that is, after the Aussie guys rapped our door shouting ´Girls! Yer late everyone´s waiting for ya!! Wake up!!´ Yes... we were still in bed and 40 minutes late!!! Anyway, we managed to get it together pretty quickly, made [View Full Entry]

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We´ve arrived in Pucon in Chile which is a nice little town, not unlike San Martin de los Andes, seems a little bit more upmarket than Argentina and definitely more expensive. There´s an active volcano here which is the main reason we´re here - so we can climb up it for 6 hours then slide down it on our bums for 2... how cool does that sound?!!! However, the weather is not too great, ie cloudy, and so it´s not safe to climb it yet as there will be zero visibility. So I am prepared to wait here till the sun [View Full Entry]

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After moving hostels in Bariloche (bad customer service) and not doing much activity at all we got ready to move on... and just as our bags were all packed and ready to go Max, Bo, Tony and pretty much the rest of them from Ushuaia turned up to meet us so we decided to stay on a little longer and party on a bit.. moving to yet another hostel which turned out to be pretty cool as it had ping pong, an outdoor slide and tree house, comfy beds with DUVETS, equipment to plug in your ipod and everything!! Good enough [View Full Entry]

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I know I´ve been wittering on quite a bit, but if you´re bored of reading my ramblings or are just wondering what all these people and places look like then make sure you check out the pics to go with the blog, they are all at Nikki´s Pics. If you are registered as a friend you will see all the pics, otherwise you will only get some of them. You can also check out what Lorna has to say here at Lorna´s Blog I have some video clips to upload as well but n [View Full Entry]

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After leaving El Chalten we wanted to get north to Bariloche and the easiest route here is closed, so that meant going back the way we came via our favourite place Rio Gallegos and 2 smelly days on buses!! Great! We love transitions, yaay! I´m starting to get used to these long journeys now though and manage to sleep quite a lot but have to try sneak 2 seats instead of one and sleep in the most unnatural positions. Got some really annoying kids kicking the seat behind me at 7am on the second day, meanwhile the driver put on Harry [View Full Entry]

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There´s not much else to do at El Calafate other than see the Glacier so we then travelled to El Chalten to stay for a few days. El Chalten is a small, developing village in the Nacional Parque de Los Glaciers and is only allowed to develop so far and no more houses will be built so as to prevent the park from being spoilt. The village itself is pretty rustic with no proper roads and only a couple of tiny shops and bars and no banks or anything. When we arrived it started snowing and our Spanish friend Mickey and [View Full Entry]

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We reluctantly left Ushuaia after our 6 days of madness and headed for El Calafate which is the closest town to the HUGE Perito Moreno Glacier. We arrived quite late to El Calafate and got a reeeeally cheap hostel, only 10 pesos a night. Well, you get what you pay for I tell you: it was Skansky Skansville, the rooms were freezing and we wouldn´t dare cook or eat in the kitchen - I suppose that´s what we get for squeezing our budget so far! One nice thing though was the gorgeous wee puppies running around (even though I had a [View Full Entry]

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I cannot begin to tell you how much fun Ushuaia has been. The days we´ve had have been amazing, the weather has beautifully sunny and cold and we´ve seen and done loads of cool things. The most fun thing of all has been the nights in the hostel, The Antractica, it´s got the best atmosphere of any hostel we´ve been in so far and we´ve partied hard every single night we´ve been here. We´ve had Dave1 from Essex with us since Puerto Madryn, met up with the Mad Brummies from Puerto Madryn who we´re still with now, met Canada Tony, Bristol [View Full Entry]

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Today, the main event occupying most of the hostel crew was to go and see the glacier. Great idea, lets go before we have any time to think of how we feel. So, trailing behind everyone else, the Brummies, Gus and I head off with a wee picnic to sit and look at the Glacier with. The taxi drops us off kind of up a mountain and informs us that it´s a 45 minute walk there and the same back. Great, as we all now know this is the best thing for the day after the night before. Then we see [View Full Entry]

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Today we went on a boat to the Beagle Channel. This is the channel of water between Tierra Del Fuego and Antarctica and the place where the Atlantic meets the Pacific. Strangely enough, hangovers were not present today, at least not in my head. And this is strange because we spent the whole night doing the usual, telling great stories and discovering the lot of us to be of the same ilk. Great! So, the boat was good, cold but good. Fact lovers: We went to an island where the Shaman lived naked in middens (holes in the ground) right up [View Full Entry]

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