So after my last blog, i headed off to the airport driven by Lou´s dad and Lou´s mum stayed at home and gave me a massive hug before i went and i got to the airport and Lou and Her dad waited on me checking in and hugged me and said i had a family and a home in Mexico whenever i want it, which was really sweet and i felt a little upset at leaving as they were wonderful and yet also excited to go to South America. So i went through and no mention of a departure tax, ill [View Full Entry]

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25-02: Nachts ist es empfindlich kalt. Es geht so auf 5º runter. Unsere Ajungilak-Schlafsaecke halten uns aber prima warm. Das Dachzelt-Konzept bringt bei diesen Bedingungen allerdings ein Problem mit sich: Es hat nur eine Wand, ist kein (!) Doppelwandzelt. Mit zwei "Heizkoerpern" im Inneren und der Kaelte draussen, gibt es das Problem des Kondenswassers unserer Atemluft: Morgens werden wir von "Regentropfen" des Zeltgestaenges im Gesicht geweckt. - Heute fahren wir in den Nationalpark "Tierra del Fuego". Wir fahren an das Ende der RUTA 3, der Fernstrasse, die am Obelisk auf der Avenida da In [View Full Entry]

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Early start Our trip to Ushuaia started at 3am with a most unwelcome wake up call. The first 5-hour bus journey was somewhat unpleasant - ridiculously hot and we didn’t have any water. Admittedly our overheating was partly to do with the excessive amount of alcohol we’d consumed the night before as others within the bus were covered with blankets and coats! We blame our new found friends, Dain and Jaime from Colorado. It all got better from there though, the second bus journey went relatively smoothly and we got to stretch our legs quite a bit as we had to [View Full Entry]

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Bienvenidos al fin del mundo! I'm in Ushuaia at the moment, the self-proclaimed ´fin del mundo´. The fact that it isn´t, in fact, the most southerly town in the world (at the very least, Puerto Williams in Chile is ever so slightly further south) doesn't seem to have stopped the souvenir sellers one little bit. You can even get a special 'fin del mundo' stamp in your passport :-) I got here on Saturday night, after a mammoth 15 hour bus journey from Puerto Natales. Most of the journey was entirely unremarkable, across the vast empty plains of Patagonia. However, Ushuaia [View Full Entry]

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Wir sind angekommen, hier aber die restlichen Reiseetappen: 19-02: Wir sind weiter nach Süden gefahren, ohne genau zu wissen, wo wir uebernachten werden. Einen Abstecher machen wir zu einer grossen Pingin-Kolonie. In Punta Tombo sollen zur Brutzeit etwa 150.000 Pinguine leben. Man kann auf markierten Wegen zwischen den Nisthoehlen herumlaufen. Insgesamt bin ich aber etwas enttaeuscht. Man kann nicht mit ihnen schmusen und es liegt ein recht starker Duft ihrer Hinterlassenschaften in der Luft. Weiter gehts. Eine Tankstelle, die uns Marina und Rubnes empfohlen haben, finden wir sehr laut. Al [View Full Entry]

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Nastal cas dat vale utulnymu hostylku Lili v Puerto Natales, kde to bylo uplne super, kamaradska atmosfera, musel jsem klukum dokonce vnutit penize pri odchodu, protoze by na to sami jinak zapomneli. Autobusem jsem se nechal odvezt do Punta Arenas - mesta na brehu Magellanova prulivu. Jak na me Puerto Natales udelalo moc milej dojem malyho mestecka na konci sveta, tak Punta Arenas na me udelalo dojem presne opacnej: osklivy mesto, na brehu pustyho prulivu. Jedinej duvod proc tam turisti vubec jezdi jsou asi tucnaci. Ubytoval jsem se v hostelu Independencia, kterej patri chlapikovi jmenem Ed [View Full Entry]

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Ushuaia bills itself as ´El Fin del Mundo´ (the end of the world), despite not actually being the southernmost town (the Chilean town of Puerto Williams is slightly south of here), and more importantly, not displaying any evidence of the Legion of the Undead devouring the flesh of the living, which I´m fairly certain will accompany the end of the world. (It´s taken me 4 months of travel to mention zombies in this blog - how´s that for restraint?) Finally after several months of scorching sunshine, volcanoes, and gorgeous beaches (you really hate me now, right?) we have arrived in the [View Full Entry]

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English version below. Wybralam sie na wycieczke lodka wokol wysepek porozrzucanych na Kanale Beagle, a szczegolnie do kolonii lwow morskich. Mielismy sporo szczescia, bo pogoda byla piekna i moglismy dokladnie obejrzec sobie Ushuaie z perspektywy kanalu. Lwy morskie w naturze sa cudne i przeurocze; nie da sie porownac z zoo. Szaluje troche, ze nie widzialam pingwinow..nastepnym razem. Wieczorem w hostelu mialam ostre spiecie z jedna angielka z Londynu. Dyskusja byla o fali polskiej emigracji w Londynie, ktorej one nie lubila. Jeszcze raz sie przekonalam, ze Londynczyk, im wiekszym jest [View Full Entry]

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Welcome to my 2008 Round the World blog!!!!!' This is my first attempt using this travel blog to keep a travel diary on the net. So far, my days have been filled with what seems to be endless walking as I try to ¨fit¨ all that I can into my some-what condensed South American trip. So by the time I get back to my temporary lodgings, I´m too tired to think much less write about my experiences though thoughts are constantly racing through my mind. I wish someone would invent a mind-reader-recorder!!! Anyway....where shall I start? How shall I do this?? [View Full Entry]

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