1/1/2018 New year in Ushuaia

We are doing nothing the whole day. I’m catching up on my blog diary. It’s lovely sunshine outside. We cooked lunch and dinner, had little walk outside and spoke with our nice new neighbours from Brazil (Gabriela and Fernando) and Argentina (Barbara and Javier).

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31/1/2018 notes from expedition to Vulcan Villarrica Pucon

Day 46 6:30 office 7:00 left 8:00 lift 12:00 top 15:00 left back 16:00 back and beer 16:30 in hostel, shower 17:00 meal next door 5000 clp per two incl drinks 17:30 sleep 20:00 wake up 21:00 bus to Los Pozones 22:00 thermals 24:00 bus back 01:00 Pucon

30/1/2018 Failed excursions to Vulcan Villarica due a bad weather

Day 45 We had every ready from the evening, so even we had to get up at 5:30am, it went well and at 6:10am we were already in Pucon Aventura office waiting for instructions. For the volcano, we only needed to bring comfortable sports clothes, food and water. Notes: Got there, came back, bus ticket check if we can change, coffee, hostel check if we can change, added one more night, went to change bus, waited for agency to open, full for the next day, cannot return money yet, another agency (Florencia), another agency Trancura holding places, still no money back, another agency Politur booked with deposit 70000 (price 100k pp including los pozones thermas), gift for Annie, kuchen through hostel owner, strawberries 1k per kg, smoothie with milk, went for money, paid the difference, dinner with Annie, La Manga.

9/1/2018 Bus from Puerto Natales to El Calafate

We got up early, “cooked” porridge for breakfast and went to the bus terminal to catch our bus at 7:30 (Cootra Ltda, 17000 Chilean pesos per person, tickets bought at the bus terminal one day in advance). Our seats were downstairs. The way to the border is quite short and soon we got off the bus to get an exit stamp from Chilean border. Straight after leaving the migrations office, our driver gave us a customs declaration form for Argentina (the same one as you get on a plane to Argentina). We filled the form in during the way to the Argentinian border and there we got an enter stamp into our passport. Then we waited about 1.5 hours. Someone lost their passport or had an issue with their passport and we were waiting (the whole bus) to get it resolved. After the 90 minutes (around 11am) we finally left (without that person). At 3pm we reached El Calafate and asked for a map of the town and then walked from the bus terminal to the centre to book Perito Moreno Glaciar trip...

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