Here we are then...our voyage to the bottom of the world complete, see I go to the ends of the Earth to write blogs for you people!! From our last port of call in Rio Gallegos, we headed 12 hours south, th the southern most city in the world, Ushuaia. It's a bit of grief to get to actually, as you have to get an exit stamp on the Argentinian border, go through customs to get into Chile, followed by a short 15 minute ferry ride over the Magellan Strait and then get a Chilean exit stamp, followed by more customs [View Full Entry]

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The journey from Puerto Natales to Ushuaia was pretty uneventful. It was a 14 hour bus ride that required a couple of border crossings (between Chile and Argentina) but all went smoothly. The last hour was stunning as we drove through snow covered mountains and a road that was super slick and snowy. Thankfully our bus (a minivan by this point) had super treaded tires allowing us a safe passage. We arrived in Ushuaia late....it was about 8pm and dark. The bus stopped right by the hostel that we had been recommended which was rather convenient. It was a gorgeous hostel....Hostel [View Full Entry]

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Day 27 Arrived back in BA and had a quiet day as Tom was feeling a bit stinky so had a quiet night and hoped for better health for the early start for the plane. Day 28 Up bright and early and got the plane to El Calafate in Patagonia. Noone wanted a tip when we got off the plane for giving us our bags which was nice. Went to the hostel and then wandered around the town and organised our adventures for the next few days. Day 29 Wandered over to the Perito Moreno Glacier, the most famous in the [View Full Entry]

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April 23, 2008 Waking up on a bus is always hard. We travelled for 18 hours through Pantogonia to a town called Rio Gallegos where we hoped to catch a bus to Ushuaia (home of tierra del Fuego) but, found out there is no bus until nine in the morning, the next day. We have no choice but to grab a hostel for the night. The town itsef seems pretty laid back and it is pretty small. The main thing that sticks out is the wind. It would almost blew us over and from what we were told, it is like [View Full Entry]

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Ushuaia has nicknamed itself "The End of the World", a fact with which you're bludgeoned over the head like an overly trusting penguin as you wander its streets, however it's difficult to justify such a title. At roughly the same latitude south as Belfast is north, and not even the most southerly city in the world (that honour goes to Puerto Williams in Chile, a fact acknowledged by both the Argentinian and Chilean governments, though purists may argue that Puerto Williams is more a naval base than a city), a population of of over 60,000 people lives amongst a colony of [View Full Entry]

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Yes! We made it! Before crossing the finish line let me bring you up to date with the final stages of our journey. After a boring drive across the Argentnian pampas we entered El Calafate surrounded by stunning scenery and after 200k of ripio (gravel/muddy track) and four firmly pumped up tyres we celebrated with a hot chocolate in a very expensive coffee shop. As the sun was shining we decided to camp but forgot that it didn't shine at night and it got a little chilly. We were met by Jack Frost and all his mates the next morning which [View Full Entry]

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Day 207 - Monday 14 April It was another early start and at 8am the bus set off for Ushuai. Even though Ushuais in Argentina the only way to get there by bus is to first pass through Chile, so I had to get on/off the bus a couple of times whilst I collected some more stamps in my passport. Apart from that it was pretty univentful until we reached about 30 mins outside Ushuai. The scenary was fabulous, snow covered mountains everywhere. It was certainly worth the drive down. I´ve never got the wanting to live in the countryside thing, [View Full Entry]

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Long and short of it... we are bored. We took a bus from San Pedro to Salta in Argentina, spent two days there (lovely) and then flew South to Ushuaia in Tierra Del Fuego. Why? i hear you cry... well largely to try and get here before the weather "broke" however we can assure you that it has well and truly "broken" and has been pelting it down with rain, snow and whatever else it can muster for the last three days. Not a lot to do here when you can´t really walk about for fear of your nose falling [View Full Entry]

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Dag allemaal, Eind maart zijn we vanuit Santiago met de Tur-Bus naar Puerto Varas gegaan.Het was een nachtrit van 12 uur en het viel gelukkig allemaal mee want je kon bijna liggen in de stoelen.En voor je er erg in had was het al ochtend. We vonden een Hospedaje,Elza.Je verbleef in haar huis en je had je eigen slaapkamer.Hier konden we ook weer koken.Dus Pierre kon zijn gang weer gaan op een fornuis waar je echt nog met hout aan de gang moest.Het ging perfect,beter dan een gasfornuis.Elza moest wel hout hakken voor ons maar ze vond het een pracht dat [View Full Entry]

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Hi there! Today we went for a 4 hour walk up to the top of a chairlift 7km from town and back. We couldn´t quite make it to the Martial glaciar as the snow was too thick. this really is an amzing place, a small town surrounded by mountain peaks that doubles as a ski resort in winter. I still can´t get over how far south we´ve come! We had an amzing free hot chocolate at a spa resort and got a free map (from our boat trip to the light house at the end of the world yesterday. Gutted we [View Full Entry]

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