Rolo on Tour

Having relaxed enough I continued my trip and chose the city of Ushuaia as my next destination. It is situated on the island Tierra del Fuego and known as the southernmost city (everything further south they say does not count as a city…) in the world and therefore likes to call itself „Fin del Mundo/The End of the World“. Well it did not feel like that, rather like Christmas, as there was lots of snow (but not enough to go skiing 🙁 ).

Happy because of the snow

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart…

Going further south would have been a little bit complicated, so the direction was north again. As all of the northern part of Tierra del Fuego belongs to Chile that meant crossing 2 borders to stay within Argentina. As a result I had to show my passport 8 times (2+2 times at the borders, twice to buy a bus ticket and 2 police controls in the bus) that day, a new record. But it was worth it in order to visit the impressive Perito Moreno Glaciar nearby the town El Calafate:

Attention: Don’t collude with this iceberg, please

View of the Glaciar from the boat

I guess I just don’t like obeying rules I don’t understand…

Further north lies Bariloche, also known as the Switzerland of Argentina. Well, I did not feel like in Switzerland, but of course that is an absurd statement to make as I have never been there knowingly. Also, interestingly a couple of days later after leaving that place a volcano lying nearby called Puyehue had an eruption causing some problems in that area, so it was good to already have left the place…

Back in the smog of Santiago to meet „old“ (that means, we met 1-2 months ago ;-)) friends we went rock climbing. And it appeared that it was not one of my strengths – I even got the nickname „la gallina“. But more importantly everybody had a good time and that is all that counts.

Moving on up

Flexibility helps 

goooooood

I enjoyed it a lot that between all this rushing from one place to another I could have a kind of „normal“ everyday life for a while . You could call this maybe a holiday from backpacking.
But as always there comes the time to split up again and the most important question is: When do we see each other again?

——————————————————————————————————————————-