Author Archives: David Dice

We took a taxi this morning to the Museo Maritimo y Antiquo Presidio.  This is actually the old penitentiary which was here in Ushuaia, but it is now a museum both of maritime, especially Antarctic maritime exploration, and of the … Continue reading →

Once again our private driver showed up, right on time this morning, and took us to the El Calafate airport.  This is a very modern airport, but doesn’t look as if it has a lot of traffic.  Since it is … Continue reading →

Today was a free day with no scheduled activities.  We walked to the centre of town, a bit over a kilometer from the Cauquenas de Nimez hosteria.  At the corner of the main street is a park, a full block … Continue reading →

[Show slideshow] Our tour van for the glacier arrived right on time just after 8am. We drove about town for half an hour picking up others. The very first stop was for three young Canadian travellers.   One of them, a … Continue reading →

We were shocked when we went to check out this morning to find that if we paid cash in Chilean Pesos that we were charged an extra 19%.  No where had we seen anything mentioned about that.   If we paid … Continue reading →

It is reported that Patagonia is one of the windiest places on earth.  I think that is probably true.  At least it was windy enough today that one could almost think they were on the southern prairies of Saskatchewan! We … Continue reading →

The forecast we saw yesterday was definitely wrong.  It called for clouds, and high winds of 60 km/h.  Instead it was a beautiful sunny day, with hardly any clouds, and the wind was never too strong. We asked at the … Continue reading →

We had a nice breakfast, early, this morning at the hostel, as we had to catch the bus at 7:30.  When the bus had not showed up by that time, the lady that cooked the breakfast began to get concerned, … Continue reading →

We left Puerto Varas at 9 am, were driven to the Puerto Montt airport, where we boarded our plane, right on time, for Punta Arenas.  Our ticket information said in-flight snacks, so we were very surprised to get a noon … Continue reading →

Today was planned as a rest day, and we needed it since we’ve been going steadily since we left home a week ago yesterday.  This morning, after breakfast in the hotel, we asked for a map at the front desk, … Continue reading →