Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur, Territorio Nacional de la Tierra del Fuego Vacations, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur, Territorio Nacional de la Tierra del Fuego Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

I was beginning to wonder if I will ever bump into any other Filipino on my third day here in Fin Del Mundo - Ushuaia, Argentina. Again, the Filipino diaspora was not to disappoint. On my way to kill about 2.5 hours before we board the MS Clipper Adventure, I wandered along the main street in Ushuaia, Avenida San Martin. As I walking I heard several people talking in Filipino, mostly men, likely working for the cruise ships plying the South Atlantic, South Pacific cruising route....

On Thursday the Drake Passage was quite OK again to the point where an engine room tour was organised. You could really tell the people working there were proud of their work, because everything was very clean. The rest of the day I spent sorting out my photos, making sure to type everything in before I would forget it. Friday morning I got up at 6AM to see Cape Horn, the Southermost point of South America. On Friday evening the expedition leader gave a recap, and after that we had some cock...

Pre-Antartica Trip Trauma - Did we miss the boat?   A week before we were due to start our trip to Antartica we realised that we had still not heard from GAP (who we were going to be travelling with) as to whether all of our warm ski gear, that my Mum kindly sent to their office back in August, had arrived or otherwise.  Finally, we managed to get hold of the local office in Ushuaia (where the trip was to set sail from), the day before we arrived. They took the postal de...

Today we slung on the boots and packs and walked from Ush into the mountains behind the city. We climbed up through gorgeous alpine forests until we reached the snow. Great views over Ush and the Beagle Channel. From here we continued up onto the snowy moutain to view a glacier, which we never really found. It was more like a mountain with lots of snow on it. Maybe we were spoilt by the sight of the Perito Moreno Glacier near Calafate. The views and walking on the soft snow were well worth th...