Tag: Patagonia
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Tour Title: Patagonia Experience and Antarctica in Depth Tour Company: G Adventures Tour Leader: Alvaro Jaime Dates: 29 October 2012 to 7 November 2012 Tour members: Seven Ben Noonan, Kurt Lybaert, Nina Pettersen, Christopher Barnes, Karen Taylor, David and myself. This tour is actually made up of two separate stages Patagonia and Antarctica. The Patgonia…
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Tuesday 6 November 2012 Highlights: Grey’s Glacier, Farewell to half the group Waking up around 6.30 am to constant rain wasn’t a great start to the day. Both Ben and myself relocated to to dining room for breakfast. It was important today to complete our 4 hour hike by 12.00 in order to catch a…
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Monday 5 November 2012 Highlights: Hike up the French Valley, Avalanche spectacular, boat crossing No problems waking up early today, well except for Ben who went back to sleep and who would have missed breakfast if I hadn’t gone and woken him. It rained during the night but the tent didn’t leak. The sleeping bag…
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Sunday 4 November 2012 Highlights: Three Granite Towers, Camping Today was the start of three solid and lengthy hiking days. Alvaro was joined by a second guide Lynn, who is a trainee, for the next three. A two hour drive awaited to get to Torres del Paine National Park, along the way we stopped for…
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Saturday 3 November 2012 Highlights: Border Crossing, Car Rally Today I left Argentina behind for a 4 day trip inside Chile. On a mostly rainy day the tour group caught the bus to Puerto Natales, home our guide. The bus ride only took about 4.5 hours. The border crossing went well which was a surprise…
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Friday 2 November 2012 Highlights: Perito Moreno Glacier An early morning start again (a worrying trend) and we were off to Perito Moreno Glacier. The local guide and driver were the ones who picked us up at the airport a few days back. We got a history lesson on the way but I was struggling…
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Thursday 1 November 2012 Highlights: Ice trekking on Viedma Glacier, lost iPhone Today the group broke up into our preferred activities, Ben and Nina went bike riding; Kurt, David and Karen went ice climbing and Christopher and myself went ice trekking. The ice trekking and climbing were on the same glacier so five of use…
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Wednesday 31 October 2012 Highlights: Nine hour hike to Laguna de Los Tres An early morning start as we caught a bus to the Glacier National Park for our hike to Laguna de Los Tres. This turned out to be both awesome and very tough at the same time. The awesome part included hiking in…
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Tuesday 30 October 2012 Highlights: Picturesque El Chaltén, Drive to El Chaltén Started the day with a walk around Ushuaia scoping out this small town that I’ll be back at in around 11 days to depart to Antarctica. The mountains and terrain are stunning.
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Monday 29 October 2012 Highlights: The snow capped mountains of Ushuaia Last night it rained all night and then at 7.30 am the power went out for a few seconds, I was glad not to be in the European style lift (i.e. tiny) at the time. This made checking out a lot longer as the…
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