Well very early tomorrow its time to head south thanks to our son and daughter in law (Cat & Cal) who, having just got married, are planning to have '7 Weddings in 7 Continents' over the next 6 months... gotta love Gen Ys don't you.
Two of those continents are Antarctica and South America, so when they were sharing their Antarctica travel plans we asked if they would mind us joining them on this leg of their trip as it was also on our bucket list. An enthusiastic "yes" simply left us all searching for a tour to get us there.
Part of the challenge in making our plans were 2 key factors:
- Cat & Cal had to complete their African adventure first which meant they would not get to Buenos Aires until early March and...
- We all wanted to try and cross the Antarctic Circle.
We found a company who could meet both key dates and our quest for the Antarctic Circle so now the plan has us meeting Cat & Cal in Buenos Aires on 8th March and next day flying down to the most southern town in the world... Ushuaia.
We're having a few extra days in Buenos Aires before Cat & Cal arrive to enjoy what this city has to offer including the tango and their love of meat!
We board our ship, M/S Expedition on 9th March and head down on a 2 day or 640 Km crossing of Drakes Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula and 8-9 days of exploring and absorbing that which is Antarctica.
After returning back to Ushuaia we leave Cat & Cal and head off throughout Patagonia for almost 2 weeks before briefly meeting them again to collect an extra bag to bring back to Australia for them.
They will head off to other parts of Sth America and we will have 3 days in Santiago (Chile) before heading back to Australia.
So roughly, our destinations during this trip looks something like...
As we wander around, we will be using a GPS logger thingy, which, if we can work it properly, will log exactly where we and the ships, buses or whatever are every 5-10 seconds. The location log data can be imported and displayed using Google Earth, so we will attempt in future posts to update where we have been. Well we will try to anyway.
Concerning photos, yes we will be taking a lot i suspect but we will be including only a few in each post but should, dependant on access to the internet, include links to another site so you can see a few more from each prime location.
Well that's about it for now... off we go and we both hope the crossing of Drakes Passage to Antarctica is uneventful and not like this one!
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