And so, to the bottom of the world.

To join our Antarctic cruise we had travel from the top of South America to the bottom of the continent to the most southern town in the world - Ushuaia. This meant a flight from Lima to Santiago (where we stayed overnight), then to Buenos Aires, then Ushuaia.

Ushuaia is an attractive and somewhat quirky town. We had a hotel in the main street and it appears this is a town that never sleeps. By night, the local lads cruise the street with doof-doof music blaring until 2 or 3am. The first afternoon we were there we heard a rather unusual noise. Looked out the window to discover the main street had been shut down and there was a parade of (indigenous) people on horses - there must have been one hundred of them. I don't know what it was all in aid of.

We enjoyed wandering around the town where we could see our ship that would take us to Antarctica, waiting in the harbour. They specialise in King Crabs and Brad indulged in one upon our return from Antarctica as we stayed in the town for one night after our cruise.Read more