hello dear friends
Once again, I sit writing with a view of the lake in the quincho of Johnny, our road trip took a honorable end a few days ago in bariloche. while chris goes by bus to la plata and back to the student life, nils and i have started to live and work with johnny some days ago, but more about this in a later post. today you can read what we experienced on our trip the end to the world ... have fun
Also, today there is another feature, a google my maps map, on which the blogposts got a place assigned, under this link you can see the spectacle and maybe even better understand which routes I took on my trip.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DateA2pja57LOJoFK52BEGDuXJ0hwJzh&usp=sharing
29.10. - 4.11.
early we got up to admire the sunrise on the beach. our last for a while.
After a hearty breakfast, the owner of the hostel took us to the freeway and we prepared ourselves for a long wait and a lot of questions when surprisingly fast a car stopped, a man with a very nice border collie invited us to drive with him.
I cuddled with Jack in the back seat, while Chris talked to Pedro, who even gave us a nice cliff
drove where we could take some pictures.
We got off in caleta paula and say goodbye to pedro and jack, who could not be cuddled enough.
After a small empanada break, guido stopped for us and with him we drove incredible 6/7 hours to Rio Gallegos. a huge piece that brings us very far to the south.
In the hostel noodles were cooked again and then we fell asleep relaxed.
We awoke in the hostel and made our first move to withdraw money in the city, as well as buying some fracturas to have breakfast, that's a thing here in Argentina, different sweet pastries, that bought in a dozen, cost only little money.
then we took a taxi to a crossroads outside the city. Here we waited almost 6 hours, all afternoon long. as we were about to give up and say to ourselves that is the last car we wave to, before we take a taxi back to town.
but just this stopped.
So we jumped in and drove together with two faithful brothers of the Jehovah's Witnesses to the Chilean border. the two were so friendly to show us a great lagoon in a volcanic crater.
Arriving at the border, we walked in to chile by foot and completed the formalities, before we had some sandwiches and hotdogs in the kiosk. Unfortunately only very few cars pass by and so we ended up asking the kiosk owner, where he lives and if he knows if there is a hostel in this village.
luckily he was very friendly and took us thirty kilometers to villa punta delegada, a tiny village that had only one hostel.
However, the owner had recognized our precarious situation and decided to fuck with us badly. when she said she wants us to have 2000 pesos, we thought we had interrogated, but she was serious.
We could not and did not want to sleep outside, so we took this expensive bite of sour apple and counted about $ 50 for one of the worst places I've ever seen.
that’s something what makes me really angry and sad. Of course she wants to earn some money and rent out her rooms, but it is simply impudence to raise the price from about 5 € per person to about 17 €, just because we are white and do not speak so good Spanish.
exhausted and disappointed we fall asleep, unfortunately it’s easy to notice that we are back in chile.
We woke up early in the morning at the overpriced accommodation, jumped under the shower again, and had breakfast before quickly getting back on the road to catch a bus that took us a few minutes to the intersection, where the street connects to the ferry.
a short ride later, we were at the ferry port in punta delegada and were now in sight of fire land.
Unfortunately, we did not find somebody on the ferry, which can take us further, so we got out of the car shortly after the ferry and walked for a while after a nice mate.
here someone picked us up and drove to cerro sombrero, a small village a bit closer to the argentinian border.
in a bus stop we waited hour after hour, we listened to music and just when we got hungry we noticed that we have nothing left to drink or eat. The sun was burning and the wind was sweeping. About five cars came by per hour and someone had scratched into the wood that he had to wait more than 6.5 hours.
So we were accordingly demoralized and terribly relieved when patricia stopped. a Brazilian who works in Switzerland as a musical singer, and a friend of her stopped and we put our stuff on the loading area of the pickup.
across the border we went to rio grande, a city on the argentinian side of fireland.
Here we stopped to eat and I even found some cheap film rolls for my analogue camera and i was very happy about that.
the two brought us to a small place exactly at km 3000, the ruta 3, here they bent on a small
path that took them to their hotel and in a good mood we waited again on the street.
we are now only 60 km away from ushuaia, we were quickly picked up by two men who brought us to a hostel in the city.
So we arrived overjoyed after 5.5 days at the first goal of our journey.
In the evening we drank a beer at the harbor and looked at the other side of the beagle channel, before falling asleep wrapped in warm blankets.
After a good breakfast in the hostel, we store our backpacks and make our way to the glacier, which lies behind the city in the mountains. a moderately strenuous hike. a wonderful panorama on the bay in front of ushuaia.
We take a short break at a mountain lodge and then climb the last hundred meters to the snow line.
on the mountain, we lingered a bit and enjoyed the view, before we slid down the snow on our jackets, we then again reached the hiking trail.
another beer cooled us off in the middle of the way and with the beginning of dusk we reached the city center, where we bought some postcards and went to ask for the opportunities to explore the island of penguins, as well as to visit the national park.
Later we picked up our stuff at the hostel and took a taxi to the new accommodation.
Nils and I went shopping, then we cooked ourselves a big pot rice with veggies, which will provide us even tomorrow and went to sleep.
Today we want to see at the National Park Tierra de Fuego and leave early so we can take the first train there at 9.30.
There is a small steam railway that leads past a waterfall and enters the national park via the official border. We met a group of girls who had the same intention, Luisa, Sahra and Daisy.
mate drinking we sit in the small passenger wagons and look out over the breathtaking landscape. Arriving at the terminus, we start walking in the wonderful landscape and begun the 8 km long trail along the coast.
We reach the visitor center of the national park and fill up our water supply before we walk the last 1.5 kilometers to the official end of ruta 3. There are some platforms where you can sit comfortably and watch the end of the world.
We walk into the parking lot and talk to people who are just walking to their car. there was room for us three and so we drive together back to ushuaia.
The last few meters we walked back and feel very happy and exhausted when we arrive back at the hostel. We talk for some more hours with a couple from switzerland who distract us from the idea of visiting the Torres del Paine National Park. Unfortunately, it is just too expensive.
We sleep happily in the knowledge that we have definitely made it to the end of the world.
Today we treated ourselves to the luxury of having a good night's sleep. After a small lunch, from the rest of yesterday and the day before yesterday, we walk down to the harbor and book a very expensive tour, to the island of penguins, which will take about 6 hours and we see a lot more on the way.
at about 15.30 we get on the boat and go, first we visit an island where the cormorants live, very many beautiful birds crowd on the rough stone cliff. the photo of it unfortunately exists only analogously.
On we went to another small island where some sea wolves lie and grunts in their very own language.
Finally, we pass another small cliff, on which a picturesque lighthouse was build by the Argentine navy, almost 80 years ago, to pilot ships to the bay of ushuaia.
After a long journey through rough water, we finally reach the island of penguins and the boat drives very close to the beach, without the animals to stress. an incredible experience of visiting these birds so close in their living room and watching them walking, brushing and cleaning their feathers.
the way back led us through some narrow passages and shortly after the sunset we reached the harbor of ushuaia again.
A girl from the hostel told me that tonight there will be a number of events in various museums in the city, and above all that there will be free entrance from 8 pm.
So we saved about 15 € when we then looked at the city's maritime museum, which is housed in the disused prison of the city.
However, it was much too crowded, this promotion had attracted many people and we did not stay long.
Back in the hostel, we prepared for tomorrow's departure from the city.
After waking up and taking a morning shower, a taxi took us to the gate of the city, in front of which we stretched out, putting up our thumbs. A short time later, a woman took us all the way to Tolhuin and let us out.
Then we went with a nice man who drove us to rio grande. arrived here, we searched for the bus, which took us to about 3 km outside the city. We stood here for a very long time on the street.
The wind was very strong and it was raining one or two times vigorously.
In the early evening after about 5 hours without a car, we decided to break off and took the same bus back to the city. Nils waited in a Ypf gas station while Chris and I scanned the surrounding hotels and hostels. We were looking for the cheapest place to sleep. just when we got back in the station and wanted to collect nils, he surprised us, he had found a man who offered to sleep in this living. couchsurfing rulez!
We went there after shopping with a taxi. he lives here in rio grande, and even better, the other people who were living with him were baking pizzas.
It was just the best after this long, busy day to sit at the table and to eat a super delicious pizza.
We slept on sleeping mats in the living room.
after these many photos and words you have arrived at the end, thank you very much for reading and see you next time ...
love
pauli
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