Antarctica - one of the most amazing experiences of our life. It was surreal. Different from visiting any other place. It doesn´t feel like we visited a real, physical place; more like we have the memory of some strange dream. The only way it can be described is that it´s the nearest a living being can come to seeing heaven! Crossing the Drake passage on our return (sea between Argentina and Antartica), it felt more like we were crossing some ethereal body of water, more like that river that took Orpheus to the Underworld (except unfortunately not quite so smooth - the Drake is known as the roughest sea on earth!). Antarctica is breathtaking - vast, empty, clean, and pure. The whites are perfect and the blues and greens in the ice are so vivid they're
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