Valentinas Travels

Do you remember that I had written about our guide asking the group the first day about our motivation to come to Patagonia in one of my previous posts? The landscape, the hikes, the food... And the penguins? To be honest... The penguin-answer came from me. Since a long time, I love those little animals. Especially their clumsy way to walk (maybe there are some similarities??) make me laugh all the time. That's why the last day in Ushuaia was a real highlight for me!  I really liked Ushuaia - not only because of our luxury hotel! This city has a very special atmosphere! With its fascinating history (from great and important explorations to the sad history of the native Yamana) I had the feeling that there is still something in the air. And even if there is a Hard Rock Café nowadays, Ushuaia seems to keep its old, adventurous spirit.  I wasn't the only penguin fan in my group. The plan was to visit the penguins by boat, but some of us wanted to see them from very near. T...

Today, we took a bus which brought us from Puerto Natales to Punta Arenas, another city in the chilean part of Patagonia. After El Calafate and Puerto Natales we didn't really like it. Maybe it was also because we had so much nature around us for the last days that we weren't much motivated to explore the city. We had a nice late lunch at "Los Lomitos" and later explored the cementary (quite impressive!), afterwards a very funny evening at "La Marmita" restaurant.  Punta Arenas The next day, we left Punta Arenas. This journey was long. 12 hours to Ushuaia - to the End of the World. Tierra del fuego. Land of fire. We were all a bit afraid of the 12h busride (especially those without netflix...), but it was not as hard as we had thought. In the bus, we got something to eat (better service than at home!!), then we had to change to the ferry. This was a welcome change - even if the waves made us all looking contentrated to the horizon.. :-) Cros...