Tierra del Fuego National Park

Our day started quite late today (11am), partly due to the late evening we had with our roommates of the day. I suspect the few bottles of fine Mendoza wine had something to do with it too. ;)

We caught a bus to Tierra del Fuego National Park which was just a short ride from our hostel. And one pound of dust in our lungs later we reached the starting point of our hike. You see paved roads are a bit of a luxuary so white dusty roads are quite the norm around here.

The "Costera Trail" bordered the shoreline of Lapataia Bay where on the right side was Argentina and on the other the Chilian Andes. My little chicken legs made it thru the 5 miles of evergreen beech and winter's bark forrest minus our heavy bagpacks which we had conveniently left at the hostel. Will our legs fair as well with the heavier bags? Stay tuned for our 5 day treck of Torres del Paine.

We're now inhaling our 2nd pound of dust (I'm writing this on the bus) and heading back in town (Ushuaia) to catch our flight to El Calafate. If all goes well we should depart at 7:15pm and arrive there at 8:25pm.

Time permitting I'll post more pictures to this post if I get near a PC. Later...