Our ride to Punta Arenas was early in the morning. It was a beautiful clear day and the towers were breathtakingly beautiful with dawn rays turning them golden. What a beautiful send off from Patagonia! On our flight to Santiago we happened to sit on the right side of the plane and with the clear…

Mayuresh With our goal to complete W trek, we shifted to east side of the trek. Grey glacier is another point on the W trek, and on the other side of the Towers. This is a massive 28km long glacier that is part of the southern Patagonia icefield. This is the furthest away from EcoCamp.…

We chose an easy hike for our second at Patagonia to give us some break. The alternative was to go to the French valley which is another leg of the W trek. This hike went through a different part of Torres del Paine National Park that is not as visited as the W trek and…

We seriously considered getting a private guide for our hike as we felt we were pushed to walk faster than we were comfortable with and it overall made the hikes harder. But the EcoCamp team promised that their guides are well trained and will make sure we get to walk at our pace. Our guide…

After completing our adventures in Argentina Patagonia, finally we started our trip to Chile. Our driver/guide was Daniel from El Calafate. He said that he only drives from Argentina to Chile and this is an everyday trip for him We started at 8.30am. He gave details of trip including for immigration procedures for exiting Argentina…

One more day of itinerary that was planned for us, but this was a winner. We got picked up by our guide Daniel from the hotel and he drove us to a remote corner of Argentine Lake. We got on a catamaran and had a scenic ride for about 45 minutes to the other end…

Visiting this glacier was the main reason we included El Calafate and Los Glaciers National Park in our itinerary. So, my anticipation was high. This was the place I hoped to see glacial calving and potentially capture it for posterity. I will admit that though the glacier is impressive, by now, we have seen many.…

Mayuresh We had this hike scheduled immediately the next day after our demanding hike to Laguna de Los Tres. With our tired bodies, we started the hike at 8.30am. Most of the group warmed up for the hike soon but it took an hour for me to catch up the speed with the group. On…

We started our visit to Patagonia with a bang. The Laguna Los tres is a 14 mile hike with elevation gain of close to 3500 feet – this is one of the difficult hikes in Patagonia, if not the most difficult. After minimal to no exercise on the 34 day cruise, this felt daunting. But,…

So finally after the epic expedition voyage until the Antarctic Peninsula, we started last leg of voyage into dreaded Drake Passage towards Ushuaia. Two days at sea and arrival in Ushuaia on third day’s morning. Drake has history of rough weather and winds leading to almost 40-45ft tall waves. But weather gods continued to be…