As we had landed at Cape Horn, we now had to continue to Puerto Williams to officially clear into Chile – and the out again. Final port of call was at good, old Ushuaia on the Argentinian side of the Beagle Channel. It was here, where we left the Hanseatic (after many good-byes to the staff) and jumped on a plane to Buenos Aires.
We had another 24 hours in Buenos Aires – (what happened in Buenos Aires, stays in Buenos Aires) – before flying back to Germany – and into normality.
The final morning on board … making our way back through the Beagle Channel to Ushuaia – where it all started around 1.5 weeks back.
Here we de-boarded and – after some short time in Ushuaia (enough for a farewell lunch) made it to the airport to fly out and back to Buenos Aires.
Four o’clock in the afternoon – – finally … we were picked up by bus from a parking lot next to the harbour to make the remaining 300 meters (sounds odd, but helped to bypass the security screening, so saved loads of time.). Once on board (and after checking into the cabins) we went through all those introductory briefings (team introduction, safety briefing etc.) and finally had dinner around 20:00.
The ship was originally scheduled to leave at around 18:00, however due to some problems (from customs to wind blowing into the wrong direction) we could not leave until around midnight.
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The Ioffe was scheduled to leave at 18:00, the boarding meeting was scheduled at 16:00, consequently I had a near-full free day. I decided to go for a half day trip to Tierra de Fuego National Park to also see … Continue reading
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This vacation started were my last year Patagonia trip finished – in the southernmost city of the world, Ushuaia … with the difference that this time I got what I did not get a year before. I was finally getting … Continue reading
Another short flight got us down to Ushuaia – the southernmost city of the world (it is only small settlements and research stations further south). We only had around 1.5 days down here, so activities were somewhat limited, also as the weather was not the best … below some impressions.
