Shipmates

Our room mates are Aaron and Collette, a young couple from the US (they celebrate their 6 month anniversary of going out while on board).
Aaron is a paranoid (my government is coming for me), conspiracy theory believing (my government blew up the twin towers and  is coming for me), three gun owning (my government is [...]

Room 101

The process of getting on board is a surreal experience. We all meet Andrea, our rep and guide in the Boarding hall, where we are briefed, in amusing english, on the process. We are then led out into the rain, weaving between cattle trucks (oh yes, a very large number of cows are planning to [...]

The Navimag Experience

We are due to board the ship at 9pm on a blustery and rainy night. By now we already know four of our fellow shipmates – Richard, Vicky and Keith – who we met at our hostel and a canadian, Dana, who we had previously met in El Calafate.

Return to Chile

The bus ride to Puerto Natales is a very long 16 hours and begins at 5:30 in the morning. It involves 3 bus changes and two border posts. At the border everyone gets out the bus and queues to get their passport stamped. The Chilean side is even worse as all the bags need to [...]

Tierra del Fuego National Park

We awake to a bright sunny day and decide to make the most of it by heading for the Tierra Del Fuego National Park. We catch a short expensive minibus to the park and do some short walks. The park is beautiful and the autumnal colours are starting to show.  Very soon we are walking in [...]

The Bookshop At The End Of The World

We finally arrive in Ushuaia, about as far south as we can go without jumping on an antartica-bound icebreaker. This is “The End of The World”, as it likes to be known, and is perched on the island of Tierra Del Fuego, overlooking the Beagle channel. It feels good to be here, and know that [...]

Erratic Rock and Weather

The daily 3pm briefing takes place in the cosy first floor lounge of the Erratic Rock hostel. Bill, the “I´m not a capitalist since leaving the states” owner is busy so the session is being conducted by Heather (editor of the popular local backpack paper, Black Sheep).
We are in Puerto Natales in the narrow bit [...]

Calafate Ice

A short bus ride of 5 hours and we arrive in the most expensive town in Argentina – El Calafate. It also has the most number of tourists. Here for one reason, *the* glacier – Perito Moreno; and it is stunning. It is enormous, 16 storeys high and moving at about 2 metres per day, so [...]

Penguin Pics

We´ve just added some wildlife pics here.

To The Base of Mount Fitzroy

It is six in the morning and the four of us huddle, in the dark, sheltering from the wind, against the wall of the Elat cafe, in El Chalten. “We are open for breakfast from 7:30″ promises the sign on the door.
The bus dropped us in the centre of the small frontier town half an [...]