Geography Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) is located on the banks of the Beagle Channel. Ushuaia is the capital of the province, the most southerly city in the world, and the open door to the immense and mysterious Antarctica. In total, the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego covers an area slightly smaller than Ireland, [...]
Sitting one day in a dusty Patagonian bus station and not having that much to do we stabbed our finger at a map of Argentina and took the next bus to the town of Puerto Madryn on the Peninsula Valdes, where we were reliably informed by the local tourist office that, “Impressive sea elephants, penguins, [...]
It is easy to lavish superlatives on places and many poor travellers have must have arrived, guidebook in hand, to some ‘unmissable’ monument or temple only to be disappointed. However, the Moreno Glacier which is situated within a stone’s throw of the sleepy Patagonian town of El Calafate is truly one of nature’s wonders and [...]
View of Argentine Falls from Brazil. First of all, you will love the falls. They are spectacular. There are 275 waterfalls that make up the Argentine side that stretch a mile interspersed with lush rainforest greenery. It is the quintessential tropical paradise. On the travel bulletin boards there is an ongoing debate as to which [...]