• 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…