Sunday 1st May 2016 Let’s start with the backpack itself. When you go for a long travel adventure during which your backpack will literally be your house, it is super important to spend some time choosing the right backpack for you. The anecdote goes that originally I had bought this 60+15L Lowe Alpine Wilderness backpack. … More What did I have in my backpack?
Thursday 24th December 2015 I slept in and woke up around 9.30am. Here was the room style of the hostel where I was staying called Viva Hostel Design: http://www.vivahostel.com.br/ The locker The shower had a timer and each minute it would bip, reminding you that in a city of 11 million people, water was precious. View … More Sao Paulo
Wednesday 23rd December 2015 Left the Antarctica hostel and its cosy lounge around 7.30am. We got into the taxi to the Ushuaia airport with Aurelien, the French guy flying back to France through a different route. Last view of Ushuaia from the airport. Queuing at the LAN counter. Getting into the waiting area. Getting into … More From Ushuaia to BA to Sao Paulo
Tuesday 22nd December 2015 I walked to the minibus bus stop where I found one going to Tierra del Fuego National Park. Landscape on the way there. We stopped at the entrance to pay the National Park fee. We got a map on which were the tracks. I decided to do the Coastal Walk first … More Ushuaia – Tierra del Fuego National Park
Monday 21st December 2015 I was at the pier around 8am and the first picture I took was from “The World”, on the of the cruise ship which had stopped here and that I could easily imagine going to Antarctica. Ushuaia seen from the pier walk. Provocative statement: Capital de las Malvinas. Pretty developed Ushuaia. … More Ushuaia – Beagle Channel
Sunday 20th December 2015 afternoon After the Museum del Fin del Mundo, I went to the Yamana Museum. First, it explained how about 14,000 years ago (12,000 years BC), there was much more glaciers everywhere and the sea water level was 100 meters lower than now. It investigated the question: Why was America the last … More Ushuaia – Yamana Museum
Sunday 20th December 2015 I slept in and woke up late. After some quick brekky, I walked to the Information Centre around 11.30am . There I asked about tours of the Beagle Channel and access to the train of the end of the world and to the Tierra del Fuego National Park. The woman I … More Ushuaia – Il Museo del Fin del Mundo
Saturday 19th December 2015 I woke up around 6.30am and went for brekky downstairs. Erratic Rock’s breakfast is known among backpackers for being really filling and great. Had a yummy brekky! Here is the entrance area / living room. Very cosy! I got to the bus station and here was the first bus I was … More Puerto Natales to Ushuaia
Friday 18th December 2015 From Grey to Paine Grande and back to Puerto Natales I woke up around 6am. Packed the backpack, packed the tent. Went to the kitchen area to make brekky. Chatted quite a bit with Alfonso, the Canadian guy living with the German woman in California. He was shocked by the number of … More Torres del Paine Q – Day 9
Thursday 17th December 2015 Los Perros to Refugio Grey via the John Gardner Pass I stayed awake late the night before, putting all clothes into separate ziplog bags, reorganising the pack to be better prepared for the rain in case it would rain again the next day. I finally went to sleep around midnight 30 and … More Torres del Paine Q – Day 8
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