Argentina page 4
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Who needs a map anyway?
mmmm.... meat in Argentina has been of a consistently high quality... I think I ate a whole pig that night (it WAS an all-you-can-eat meal)
Oh, beaver watching... sounds like my kind of trip. Notice the snorkel that lest the engine breathe... this will be important later
The Andes are often described as the "spine" of South America... well... in that case, Tierra del Fuego is the Coccyx. The Andes run north-south for almost their entire length. Down here, they do a little turn and run east-west. This is possibly one of the easiest places to cross the Andes... as we're doing now.
That looked like a nice lake didn't it? Well... it was so nice, we thought we should go out on canoes and have a bit of a paddle in the puddle. Well... lake Escondido is a bit bigger than your average puddle.
...and lucky me, I even got to see a beaver!
The service here is exceptional... our driver is seen here cleaning the back window.
One of the smoother parts of the trail... most of the trail was about as smooth as subtleness of a chainsaw. In the back compartment, without a seatbelt, I played pinball with myself and two other passengers.
We got to know each other quite well, thanks to that and a few ice-breakers (ha... ha... ha... !)
This is where we are... actually... maybe we're here...
Sometimes... I think I'm stuck in postcard-land. This is Lago Fagnano, a very large (and VERY cold) glacial lake, the largest in Tierra del Fuego.
This is no optical illusion, nor is it photoshop trickery... we are actually driving IN the lake... remember what I said about that snorkel...
Yeah, those are pretty impressive waves for a lake... and pretty impressively pretty weather for this time of year
Its a warm day in Ushuaia...
the further south you go, the more primitive tickets seem to be... the bar girl wrote this one out for me with a pencil.
The roads are windy and slippery... the snow-covered fields however, are... well... they're very picturesque, even if they don't really lead you to anywhere you'd want to go. Today, we travel by dog!
Somehow, I managed to be the tallest person in the group... so I got to sit in the back... nice a cosy. It is difficult to see from here, but the sled is held together by little bits of string.
Those dogs are pretty quick... and smart too, you just yell orders at them and they somehow know what to do. (and they won't drive off cliffs or into walls either, funny that)
...go to the end of the world. There will be a train there, take that train to the end of the line...
Ushuaia, like Osstraya... was a convict colony. The train was built by convicts to help bring supplies from the prison to the very small town that existed here at the time. A steam locomotive still runs the route... for the benefit of tourists.
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