Somewhere over pacific thinking about south america

Now I'm leaving South America after 2 month and half here!!!
After going through a lot of problem because of my flight beeing cancel, I finally finish my trip by a flight from auckland to sydney in first class in a A380... :)

a very good meal, a crazy massage seat, a bar area with sofa and free champagne... what else ?

As conclusion, in south america I've seen soooo many different thing, meet a lot of very nice people, and had some very nice time here!!!
I would say the best landscapes are in Peru, Bolivia, and Patagonia.
In Peru people are veeeeery nice and there is so much varieties of landscapes
I didn't see a lot of Brazil but enough to know that I want to come back here.
and I definetly have yo come back in Patagonia with more time to do some very big trek and see more of this beautiful area!!!
I will definitely have to come back around to visit or revisit different place. Each one for different reason, the Amazonia part of Peru, all brasil and especially Salvador and come back in Rio, Patagonia, all countries up north...

But now it's time to look to the other side of pacific as Australia is waiting for me!!

In santiago

Ok... now its time for my last destination in South America, Santiago de Chile.
The city is nice but nothing special; there is some nice building, and some nice viewpoint.

One cool thing about Santiago is that in one hour or two, you can get to the ocean or to the mountains!!!
I went to a small city called Valparaiso, a very beautiful old city just next to the ocean with a very nice architecture. For those that were in high school with me, that's the town of Pablo Neruda, there is his house and a museum dedicated to him!!!

There is also some beaches to relax, but the water is very cold!!

Just next to the city you also can go for a walk in the mountains (you can ski in winter) we went in canyon del maipu, for a small walk and the place is very beautiful, but nothing special. It look like south of france, it smell like in the "Provence".

Chile is also a big producer of wine, so I went to visit a big winery close to Santiago

So Santiago is nice city, with a lot of possibilities of outside activity very close, but I didn't find anything special about this city!!

Come back in chile !!!

Well now Argentina is done, I went from Ushuaia to Punta Arenas. Just hopping I won't have the same problem as my last time in Chile ...
Until now everything is fine, but there is not much time left in Patagonia, as I had to take a bus during the whole day to reach Punta Arenas. There is only on day left...
I spend the whole day in the national park of Torres del Paine, and it was amazing!!!!!!! This place is sooo beautiful!!! I would love to have more time here to do a big trek over many days in here

The place where I took this photosynth was under ice like 10 or 20 years ago..... It’s scary how fast it melt :( the glacier lose around 100m every years!!!!!!

Except this perfect day, I didn't see a lot of Punta Arenas, but the little I saw wasn't very nice.... just a basic city.....

At the end of the world

Last destination in Argentina, Ushuaia. The southernmost city in the world!!!
As soon as we arrived in the city, I loved it!!! It's a small city in the middle of mountains. It's very touristic but very nice.

Sadly we didn't stay very long in here. First day we went to an island full of penguins to walk a bit in the middle of them. It was awesome, there are soooo cute!!!! I want a penguin as pet!!

The next day we went for a walk in the national park, it was a very nice day.

In Ushuaia you can't trust the weather it changes always and very very fast. During the day in the national park the weather change like more than 10 times between raining and very sunny without any cloud.... very disturbing...
Anyway....I loved this city!!!

In the middle of the Ice

Now it’s time to go south, we stayed in El Calafate for few Days to visit the Glacier around.
The city is very touristic and there is way too much French people, I think there was like 50% of French tourist here. But I like the city, It look like a ski resort village in the alps, it reminded me some good memories!!

 First day we went on the biggest Glacier of the area, to do Ice climbing and it was an amazing day!!
The Glacier is not very touristic so there was almost nobody that was cool, and unlike everything that I’ve done in South America before, the place was very clean, there wasn’t any waste left there by bad tourist!!

We start the day by a boat trip to go to the Glacier, we had a very nice view.
Then we put on crampon and start walking on the ice. we climb a bit on a ice wall from the bottom of a small crevasse, it was very cool !!

Then we had a walk on the Glacier to get some very nice view. And a small stop to take a baileys on the Rock with some Icecube about 60 000 year old!!




The second day here we did the most touristic part of the area, the Perito Moreno glacier,

And The last day we just relax and stay in the city… :D