Left Cordoba early in the morning to start epic 40 hour journey south to Tierra del Fuego - an 11 hour coach ride to Buenos Aires, then 3 hour flight to Rio Gallegos (arriving at 2.30am !), and finally another 12 hours by coach crossing 2 borders and the Strait of Magellan down to Ushuaia; bumping along unpaved roads but with fabulous views of the Patagonian wilderness in the late evening light. Ushuaia (the southern-most city in the world) had a friendly, frontier-town atmosphere. Hiked and caught ski-lift up to the Martel glacier above town (including a snowy traverse) for a fabulous panorama over the Beagle Channel, framed by a well-timed rainbow on the way down. Next day headed across to the Tierra del Fuego national park for a tranquil, forested lakeside walk over landslides and
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