Alexia y Aurélien en Argentina !!! in EV!!!

At midnight and a minute, we are still in the youth bar of El Calafate waiting until the hour to get into the bus arrives. We step in at 3am and make road towards Rio Gallegos where we arrive at 7am after having slept well in a very comfortable bus. There, we have got 2 theoretical hours of connection quickly transformed into 3 hours then we move towards the tierra del fuego, via Chile, and there all becomes complicated because it is necessary to pass by 4 different customs (exit of Argentina, entry in Chile, exit of Chile and entry in Argentina) whicht represents 4 times one hour staying on hold with an unexpected bonus in the middle of all that, we have to cross the very surging Magellan Strait. Moreover, we realize that the technology known as the "tar" or "bituminizes" did not passed yet the border between these two countries... Chile is crossed on a rocky track... Nevertheless, the landscapes are nice nerves and so are the animals met.

Finally we arrive at 23.30 in Ushuaia, we immediately walk towards the hostel which we had booked by Internet, impatient to take a true shower and to eat. There we learn with a nervous smile that our reservation has not been taken into account and that of course, it does not have any more beds available...

The woman at the hostel, very nice, sets herself at the telephone with the list of all possible lodgings of the city and tries to find us 2 avaible beds. The minutes go on and we still do not hear "Si" at the question "¿tiene una habitacion por 2 para hoy?". After having contacted almost everybody on the tierra del fuego, we obtain finally a "probably" that we hopelessly take for a "yes of course".

We thus go towards this hotel, it is midnight, the sun is almost setting up, the old lady at the door informs us that they had a room free because people did not show up but that they just call to excuse themself for their delay... This nice lady understanding our despair, rented us finally the room of her son, absent this evening... While waiting for our room to be reday, we eat the dinner offered composed of tea and croissants. We washe ourselves and we sleep very easily and very relieved too.

Who's who?

The following day we realize that the house sheltering us is splendid, made of wood, on the heights of the city thus with a splendid sight, the dog and the cat are nice and the breakfast is enormous. We realise also that this hotel puts us a little out of budget but it does not matter because we do not hold a budget anyway...

Then we start to look for a cheap place for our two remaining nights and we very quickly find a small hostel held by a granny very sympathetic and a lazy Argentinian mastiff...

The rest of the day is devoted to a great walk in the national park of the tierra del fuego, which to be brief is super splendid: a mixture of sea, mountain and forests impressive... On our way, a small hut, with a cave man who stamps our passports with a fine heading "Fin del mundo"...

The visa from the end of the world

The walk is very pleasant, the path on the edge of sea, with mountains on the side and full of small animals everywhere. Most urprising, is our meeting in the middle of a very abrupt and narrow passage in forest: a bunch of wild horses...

A black stallion, three mares and a brown foal are in front of us. The problem is that they are in properly in the middle of the way and that they are not easy to move... We approach slowly and they advance slowly also. At a twist in the way we manage to pass them while walking in the woods and this time it is them which are following us at a respectable distance. When suddenly in front of our eyes a clearing appears, which does not mean anything special for Aurélien. But for Alexia, more accustomed to the animals, it does. She draws me against a tree and she do well. Probably frustrated to have to walk in line since too long, they start to run in all the directions in this clearing. During 5 minutes they let us look at them having fun, amazed but nevertheless frightened too. Then they restart walking in the normal way. We meet them again later eating grass calmly this time.

We finish our walk still shocked but benefitting nevertheless of the landscapes heading in front of us. Chilean mountains in the back, the fauna and flora of the park in the foreground and the Lapataia bay in the middle...

Little bird...

The evening, we have an economic meal at the hostel, pastas and chicken, and a good evening discussion with 3 frenchmen from reunion island staying there too...

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