Saturday, December 20, 2008

More Patagonia


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Well, after the glacier and Calafate, we traveled even farther south and, passing through Chile, made our way down to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. We got there on a rainy, cold night, but when I got outside in the morning, I completely forgave nature for my wet clothes because the city was jsut so incredibly beautiful. The mountains surrounding the city were houge and then these almost ramshackle houses made their way all the way down to the ocean. Just breathtaking.

From Ushuaia, we took a trip to the Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego where we saw some landscapes and did some good walking and saw a great live tango band playing at the station of the train to the end of the world.
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After lots of good flan at a ¨tenedor libre¨ in Ushuaia, we started the trip back up to Resistencia.

In Esquel, after driving through some thrilling scenery (mounains, lakes, trees, many things we don´t have in the north) we took a tour of another national park, known for the fact that it has some abroiginal cave paintings. the most notable thing about that day was that the park smelled a lot like home, something I had been missing.

.......chaco.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hannah Bean what a trip!! We are enjoying your pictures as we sit here with 10" of snow and more falling. Meghan Ziegler

Anonymous said...

Awesome pictures! Please keep stuff like this coming for those of us who have to travel vicariously.
Happy Holidays. We miss you here, but are proud of our local ambasador there.
Ed

Anonymous said...

I love the stories and pictures thanks, Hannah..Neal

Anonymous said...

What's a free fork tenedor libre? Did you dance to the tango band?
neal

Ben said...

Your story fills in some gaps in Yasmin's Blog. Thanks. Your dad told me you had writen more. Shari Mina and I will be in Bareloche Feb.13-22 or so. Will you see Yasmin on the north trip? Ben

Anonymous said...

Hannah,
Finalmente una nota de tus familiares perdidos en Wyoming. Te extrañamos peroestamos muy orgullosos de tus esfuerzos allí. Podemos ver que estás tratando de sacar (excrimir?) cada experiencia puedas. ¿Cómo te fueron las clases de tango? ¿ya sigues haciéndolas? Espero que nos puedas enseñar algo este verano que viene. ¿Y el verano allí? ¿Sigues aislada o has encontrado a unos de tus amigos con quienes puedes pasar un rato? Siento no haber visitado tu blog antes, pero trataré de hacerlo cada semana. ¿Cuándo empieza tu nuevo curso? Quiénes eran tus tus amigos al final del curso escolar ¿seniors? ¿Qué van a hacer ellos ahora, trabajar, asistir a la uni allí o en otro sitio? O es que tendrás que hacer otras amistades? ¿Cómo va el español? Perfectamente, me imagino. ¡Y estudias italiano! Yo También lo estudio usando unos podcasts que he encontrado en Itunes.
Io parlo un po d’italiano ma io non scrivo molto bene…
Gracias por la tarjeta postal. Ya sé que esta experiencia será una de las más formativas de tu vida. Puede ser difícil a veces pero a menos que te encuentres en peligro, valdrá la peno, no hay duda. Te amamos, Hannah. ‘sta pronto. –Diane, Kevin y Ryan