We had booked our Beagle Channel Cruise with Patagonia Adventure Explorer. We were supposed to set sail at 9:30am, but we were changed from the Blue boat to the Red boat, Telienka, at the last minute - no idea why though. As normal in Argentina, it was possible to pay in US dollars. Their conversion rate was not the best, but it was certainly better than the official rate. The Telienka was a small boat, compared to some of the others on the Beagle Channel, and ...

Breakfast at B&B de las Artes was back to the usual Argentinian style, a basket of toast, sweet croissants, coffee and juice. It was nice enough and the bread wasn't stale, everything seemed to have been bought fresh that morning. During breakfast, Marcos, the owner, called a bus company to arrange a pick up at 10am for our trip to the Tierra del Fuego National Park. It gave us enough time to go to bakery to get some sandwiches for lunch and to get our ...

We had booked the Transportes Las Lengas shuttle to take us from our hotel in El Chaltén to the airport in El Calafate. It was supposed to pick us up 9:30am, but they were 30 minutes late. Once we were seated inside and set off for the next pick up, we discovered the reason for the delay. We must have driven up and down every street in El Chaltén at least twice as the driver searched for the address. Luckily we had given ourselves a bit of spare time fo...