There are two ways to get to Antarctica, by sea or by air. The former is expensive, the latter extortionate! We booked our "expedition cruise" to Antarctica months before coming to South America. We hadn´t really had a chance to give it much thought until we arrived in Ushuaia, suddenly realising we needed to hire parka jackets, print booking confirmations, get some U.S. dollars, etc. However, once we boarded the good ship Lyubov Orlova we were engrossed in our voyage and had a fantastic trip to an amazing place. It is going to be very difficult to write this blog without using over-the-top adjectives to describe pretty much everything we saw and did. And I think it will be too difficult to try to describe the sights in the same way I might describe a weekend
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