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…

This was our last day in Antartica, and our expedition team wanted one last landing. So we arrived at Cuverville island known for hosting the largest gentoo colony in the Peninsula. We were all given a choice of long landing, short landing with zodiac cruise or just a zodiac cruise. We settled on doing both.…

The day started foggy, but we set off in Zodiacs anyway. Plan was zodiac cruising and visit to Wordie House. Wordie House is the first base where women overwintered in Antartica for the first time. What a perfect setting for the wildlife drama that unfolded. Foggy conditions with poor visibility, a stalking predator(s) (leopard seals)…

Shraddha A very busy day indeed. After the spectacular day at Stonnington, I took a long time to sleep, while Mayuresh woke up super early and caught this beautiful view of some islands on our way to Blaiklock Island. Here are a series of photos he took as dawn approached. Blaiklock island was packed with…

Shraddha: There are no words and there are no pictures that will do justice to what we saw and experienced. This was a magical day in a surreal place with absolutely the best weather possible. We started the day on the observation deck as we entered the Marguerite bay. It was dotted with icebergs and…

After a long stretch of sea days, and nothing but the vast ocean for company, we finally sighted land. Not many people have visited this island and therefore it was a little bit of mystery on what we will find. We were all very excited and knew that it didn’t matter what was there, we…

Mayuresh: After our record of reaching the southern most point of voyage at Bay of Whales, we are now heading to Peter I island. This will be a long 7 day long cruising without any zodiac activity. The shorter route of 6 day cruising has been blocked by packed ice so our captain chose this…