B U E N O S A I R E S !!!!!
Finally here! When you fly in you notice how big it is. First impression. Great.
Ostinatto Hostel. Quite nice though the beds seem crap. Let's see.
Steak time. You can't go to BA without getting in the mood for a steak!
I just came back from dinner when I received the sad news that my boss of the last 5 years has died: Steve Jobs. R.I.P.! He made Apple what it is today. Great visionary man. Sad sad sad!
Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2011
Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2011
Che boludo!
Went to an ATM and it kept my card. Good thing when the bank is closed and you fly out of the end of the world the next morning. But thanks to my pushy manner I got someone out of the bank. "you need to come back tomorrow." - "ahem, I can't, I am flying out." - "You need to come tomorrow!" - "Why?" - "We need to verify who you are!" - "Ahem, I am here. It's me, here is my ID, I CAN'T come tomorrow. I'll be gone and I need my card, YOUR machine took it" ... I guess he understood. 20 mins later I got it, just had to leave a signature on a form.
Good luck in times of bad luck.
Thank good I still have pesos, I didn't want to put the card in any ATM here.
Just imagine, after the whole passport buzz. Would be another story. Losing PP on a friday and the CC a day before you fly through the whole country or almost half the southern hemisphere.
Tomorrow I am off to Buenos Aires, finally!
Can't wait!
BTW the hostel Cruz del Sur here turned out to be very nice. The staff is outstanding and everyone is so friendly. Cool. It's just the dorms that are a bit small. But nothing to complain about.
Good luck in times of bad luck.
Thank good I still have pesos, I didn't want to put the card in any ATM here.
Just imagine, after the whole passport buzz. Would be another story. Losing PP on a friday and the CC a day before you fly through the whole country or almost half the southern hemisphere.
Tomorrow I am off to Buenos Aires, finally!
Can't wait!
BTW the hostel Cruz del Sur here turned out to be very nice. The staff is outstanding and everyone is so friendly. Cool. It's just the dorms that are a bit small. But nothing to complain about.
Tierra del Fuego
I went to the National Park for a nice (and fast) 4 hour walk through a beautiful landscape (see album)
Fast ir was because I kind of rushed through. When I walk alone I do not linger long in nice places to suck in the landscape. After 3,5 months of travels it is kind a hard.
But still, it was beautiful and left one or the other "wow".
Fast ir was because I kind of rushed through. When I walk alone I do not linger long in nice places to suck in the landscape. After 3,5 months of travels it is kind a hard.
But still, it was beautiful and left one or the other "wow".
Sonntag, 2. Oktober 2011
Tierra del Fuego
After making a night stop in Punta Arenas at the Strait of Magellan, where I stayed at the Hostal Fin del Mundo, I took a bus at 8.30 h to got to Ushuaia (ARG) on Tierra del Fuego.
Punta Arenas:
the city is OK, but hadn't much to do but walk along the Strait of Magellan, which I really enjoyed. The hostel was strange, very unpersonal. I booked it ahead over Hostelworld but when I got there the landlady didn't know anything but had free spaces. The breakfast was included but without any love. I was prepared and put on place the night before. No one there. Compared to the nights before, where some actually MADE the bf for you. ...
I also did a lot of planing and booking for the remainder of my trip. Now that the end is nigh I need to narrow my plans: Ushuaia until the 5th, flight to BA, and then? How to get to Brazil.
My initial plan: BA to Florianópolis, stop at the brazilian Oktoberfest in the german settlement Blumenau, bus to Rio, Rio for the beaches, bus to Sao Paulo, gone. But the busrides are (in order) 25h, 18h, 6h .... buff. So, after checking the net I made new plans: skip Oktoberfest and fly to Rio directly. That saves so much time and is just a wee bit more expensive.
So. Today I had the busride to Ushuaia. Just reached the hostel Cruz del Sur. First impression: not so impressive. Vamos a ver ... oder vamos a wewer!
The busride was from Punta Arenas to Rio Grande, crossing the border and taking a ferry to tierra del fuego. From Rio Grande there should have been a normal bus to Ushuaia but only 2 minibuses came, with no storage for the bags. It was all a bit chaotic, because we had a stop in between and needed to take more passengers but the bgas were taking all space. And we had a flat tire ... haha. Again. Shortly before 21 h I reached the hostel.
Here I am. Let's see how to spend 2 full days here.
... and yes. Same as with Mount Fitz Roy, I could NOT see the Torres Del Paine. Too cloudy again. :-(
Punta Arenas:
the city is OK, but hadn't much to do but walk along the Strait of Magellan, which I really enjoyed. The hostel was strange, very unpersonal. I booked it ahead over Hostelworld but when I got there the landlady didn't know anything but had free spaces. The breakfast was included but without any love. I was prepared and put on place the night before. No one there. Compared to the nights before, where some actually MADE the bf for you. ...
I also did a lot of planing and booking for the remainder of my trip. Now that the end is nigh I need to narrow my plans: Ushuaia until the 5th, flight to BA, and then? How to get to Brazil.
My initial plan: BA to Florianópolis, stop at the brazilian Oktoberfest in the german settlement Blumenau, bus to Rio, Rio for the beaches, bus to Sao Paulo, gone. But the busrides are (in order) 25h, 18h, 6h .... buff. So, after checking the net I made new plans: skip Oktoberfest and fly to Rio directly. That saves so much time and is just a wee bit more expensive.
So. Today I had the busride to Ushuaia. Just reached the hostel Cruz del Sur. First impression: not so impressive. Vamos a ver ... oder vamos a wewer!
The busride was from Punta Arenas to Rio Grande, crossing the border and taking a ferry to tierra del fuego. From Rio Grande there should have been a normal bus to Ushuaia but only 2 minibuses came, with no storage for the bags. It was all a bit chaotic, because we had a stop in between and needed to take more passengers but the bgas were taking all space. And we had a flat tire ... haha. Again. Shortly before 21 h I reached the hostel.
Here I am. Let's see how to spend 2 full days here.
... and yes. Same as with Mount Fitz Roy, I could NOT see the Torres Del Paine. Too cloudy again. :-(
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