Patagonia

Argentina & Buenos Aires are famous beef. Flew from BA to Ushuaia where we got on a small cruise ship with Australis (100 passenger) and cruised through the most southern tip of Argentina and Chile. Here is where we explored the uttermost end of the earth. The mythical Cape Horn, an almost vertical 425 meter high cliff, was discovered in 1616. For many years it was an important navigation route for sailboats sailing between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Known as the end of the world, Cape Horn was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in June, 2005. Near the Marinelli Glacier, in the Darwin Mountain Range and inside the Alberto de Agostini National Park, we shall go on a walk exploring a beaver dam and the wonderful surrounding sub-polar Magellanic forest. Then we were off to see the Magellanic penguins (a bird which lives exclusively in the southern hemisphere). Finished the cruise in Punta Arenas...a nice town, friendly people with lots of history.

IMG_3708 (640x466)

IMG_0358 (640x480)

IMG_0339 (640x480)