When I mentioned to my Montevidian friend that I was coming here his reaction was less than encouraging. His comments ranged from it’s similar to Adelaide, the architecture is better in Buenos Aires and why?. Dude, not really selling it…
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El Chalten pronounced El Chal-ten The weather here is very fickle. A 2.5 hour bus ride on a very comfortable big bus with beautiful weather most of the way to find the mountains behind El Chalten caked in clouds. Dropped…
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El Calafate pronounced El Cal-a-fart-ay El Calafate is the place to see glaciers with the most famous one being Perito Moreno Glacier. Famous mainly for being so accessible – within an hour and a bit from El Calafate there is…
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Ushuaia pronounced without the H. Us (as in puss)-y-a The first hour of the flight from Buenos Aires was a bit bumpy but smoothed out until we started coming over the Andes. Fabulous scenery with snow capped mountains all around…
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I had high hopes for Buenos Aires and was not disappointed in the least. The airport is a long way out and the traffic was heavy with road works and an accident and I didn’t get to the hotel much…
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I was a tad stressed about how my ears would handle the flight as they were pretty blocked and weren’t equalising well at all. I took a cold and flu tablet before the flight and while I’m not normally a…
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The flight from Melbourne to Santiago, Chile was one of the smoothest long-haul flights I’ve ever been on. Santiago is surrounded by beautiful green mountains but it wasn’t until the flight to Rio that I realised those mountains were probably…
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Monday (another pleasant 18°) Another of the roommates left at 4.30am. She did it relatively quietly but left all the bloody lights on…..not impressed. Had a quiet morning doing washing and packing my bag for my early flight tomorrow. The…
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Saturday (pleasant 18°) The bunk above me obviously had an early flight because she was up at 4.30am, turning on lights, leaving taps running and generally crashing about. So I got up early and went to Casa Battlo. The outside…
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Thursday (pleasant 16°) After such an emotional night and the lack of sleep, I thought and hoped I would sleep on the plane but it wasn’t to be, which was kind of a good thing because the scenery was amazing….
