14th December 2006 - Ice ice, baby baby!

´Tis a little chilly now... could it be because we are back in Chile?! Oh yes, it is.

(terrible, I'm sorry)


We had a lovely two days in El Calafate (Argentina) at a nice hostel called I Keu Ken. It has a beautitful view over the turquoise Lake Argentina. The only reason you visit Calafate is to visit the Glaciers, as our tour guide told us they have nothing else, just tourism.

So went visited the Perito Moreno Glacier. It was beautiful! On the drive up, the guide announced that she was going to put some "soft music" so could "appreciate the nature". Heh. The view as you came round the corner was something spectacular, the glacier is MASSIVE, so big. It's one of those things it's hard to really grasp the size of as you have nothing for comparison. All I know is, it's big! Someone said it's the same size as Buenos Aires city!

We splashed out again (hehehehe) and went on a boat trip to go closer to the glacier, definitly worth it. You can start to see the size of it the closer you get. Strange thing is, the more you look at it, the more it looked like it was made out of polystyrene. When we went to the balconys to view the glacier you could see the boat, it looked so small!

That was lovely. Except for being the coldest and wettest I've been in aaaaaaaaaaaaages. I'm not used to this southern, cold weather. Then agan, it was like being home for winter.

Then we got a bus to Puerto Natales, and onwards to Punta Arenas. Fly from Punta Arenas to Puerto Montt, where are now.

We're gonna head to the island of Chiloe today and spend our final few days there before flying out of Santiago on the 21st.

Still unsure about Fiji, the situation seems to be deteriotating. Stupid coup!

Also, for our map just click the title! Same goes for every other post, title is a link to the map.