Sot Again This is really only on here to show the route as we only changed planes (sorry Santiago). However, a brief note on Chilean security dumbness. To get from Ushuaia (ARG) to Lima (PERU), means taking a plane that stops briefly in Punta Arenas (CHI) and then changing planes in Santiago (CHI). On arrival in Punta Arenas (a whole 35 mins flight compared to the 12 hours bus on the way down), all passengers had to disembark, as this was the point of entry to...

A Purest Naan Punta Arenas is in the Chilean province of "Magellanes and Antarctica", on the edge of the windswept straits of Magellan. It is on the Brunswick Peninsula, the tip of which, Cabo Froward, is the Southernmost point of mainland South America. Punta Arenas is lined with actual stone buildings, as a nice change from Puerto Natales, and is more industrial too. The main attraction for tourists, however, are the local penguin colonies, the large...

Ee! U R Post-Natal (Hi Ali!) The 8:30 Cootra bus to Puerto Natales took 5 hours, the bulk of which was on a rutted and dusty dirt track - part of the famous Ruta 40 which runs the length of Argentina - before cutting across to the Chilean border, where they are very strict about fruits. Despite the lack of tarmac, the driver sped along quite merrily, while we desperately tried to fix our gaze on the horizon. The (slow) border crossing into Chile was at Dorotea, ...