South Pole (Anctartica) by Daniele Somenzi
Antarctic Peninsula-South Pole
posted by Daniel [22/01/2006 23:13]
Joseph even for this time and 'my companion viaggi.Meno male e'venuto who otherwise would not have been able to support the price of a single cabin on the ship to not less than 3500 euros and full solitudine.Cosi. 2 in the cabin and the company of a good travel companion, gia'sperimentato in 4 mega travel, see South Africa, Trans-Siberian and Pacific, Australia, Botswana. Now that I write I am in the VIP lounge at the airport Ezeiza in Buenos Aires, yesterday evening to Joseph Tortoni cafe to see the Argentine tango danced live, very beautiful. But we start from the beginning. Once in Rome from Pisa, we find that due to overbooking, we have moved from economy to business class, which there e'dispiaciuto at all, given that the ticket for that class would have been no less than thousand euros more, we have also benefited the local vip lounge. It was the perfect flight, the seats will tilt up to bed almost seem, then psychologically, you are as relaxed as possible. Slept all night, arrived at a moment in Argentina, where after taking a bus, we moved to the AEP for direct domestic flight to the waterfalls of Iguazu, which I had gia'visto. But the dream of Joseph was this. The txista shift was the right type that we wanted, in fact has led us into a beautiful hotel and not too expensive, especially not in the city '. E'offerto He will bring the day to walk to the waterfalls, so' It was the route to go from Argentina to Brazil and then to make the turn with 2 people gliding motor piu'grande on the dam in the world, the Itaipu dam. Finally, after the abortion of the waterfalls off victory in Zimbabwe 2 months ago ', I managed to take the microphone with deltaplano.Casco, rotax engine, the camera on a wing, and away into the sky. The flight is only 10 minutes, It was just enough to see the majestic dam that feeds the elettricita'Paraguay and Brazil. Of course, I filmed a blast with my mouviecamera, the landing was a po'turbolento but e'andato well. Once ashore Joseph e'decollato with the same pilot and hang glider. The photos of the flight, there were digital breath on diskette. The driver then brought us to the Brazilian side of the waterfalls. Majestic as the first time, Joseph will e'rimasto auction. Piu'tardi returned to Argentina, It was his turn to go behind the waterfall on a raft with a fortnight of tourists, and this tour, novita'per me, It was very exciting, especially when under the shower 2 waterfalls. It was to lift the foot paths, the beating sun and 35 degrees were many, pero'sono useful to dry my wallet and contents, from Zuppi waterfalls. The appointment with the fritz friend was in the car parks at the falls, which has brought us back to where a bathroom in the pool has not taken away from anyone. After dinner, a nanna. The flight the next day with Aerolineas Argentinas was the morning, with 80 md usually very quiet, the coincidence in Buenos Aires and then to the ground below the fire. For Usuhaia we landed almost 4 hours later. After over the pampas and the patagonia.Per Fortunately the weather was beautiful. The hotel was a hostel type but it is empty, the room was all at our disposal. A walk for citta'e then to the mountains she made us, the view from above was impressive, and the port saw the cruise ship Marco Polo, where we would then be due on the same afternoon inbarcarci Assigned antarctica. Finally, at 14.30.ci facts lead us to the port by taxi, and after having walked the last meters of the bench on foot until the foot of the ship with luggage in hand, boarding. The surprise that we have assigned a cabin piu'grande and the fact that 9no plan to 2do. The sun to Usuhaia was born in January, at 4 am and set at 23.Siamo left around 20 along the channel, shortly after the usual exercises with the life jacket, thirteenth time for me and first for Joseph. Nanna then, with the sun still laggiu'all'orizzonte. Of the Drake Channel, off a day of browsing, it was moved, the ship danced quite sick and was on all the 495 passengers of this cruise, pero'era something planned, because the close of the drake on the border between the head and the horn Antarctic Peninsula, e'famoso for the dozens of shipwrecks that occurred in the era of the conquistadores, many sailing ships and galleons lie on the bottom, with their cargo of homo sapiens. The best solution to seasickness e'quella of lying to letto.La Marco Polo, has a tonnage of about 20,000 tons and carries 800 passengers up piu'l'equipaggio. Pero'solo for cruises antarctica, can not 'bring piu'di 500 for landing on the Antarctic land made by international laws prohibiting piu'di 100 people at a time on land. The next morning I wake up there and Joseph in a dream, first of all the torment of the sea was completed during the night, the sea was flat, then the vision that we e'presentata front made us instantly forget Euro 3000 paid and the ugly previous day. Rocky mountains towering to the right and left of the ship with dozens of meters above the snow and ice, icebergs everywhere large and small colonies of penguins to go go, seals that bask in the sun on floating ice, the penguins are leaps of taking oxygen after having flown in immersion at 40 km per hour, all surrounded by a clear day and the whales and killer whales that were cigliegina be final. The temperature was 6 degrees +. Almost bypassing the breakfast buffet to the enchantment. My camera was burned in a single stroke from a cassette 60 minutes and drained 2 batteries, not to mention the 200 photos elettroniche made. The program was to get off on a zodiac ribs 10 at a time per'senza down to earth, we were after. Our shift was at three in the afternoon, the Marco polo was not anchored, was a sound of propellers, continually dodge the iceberg that is too near to scafo.Quando we sat on the raft I and Joseph along with other tourists (almost all Americans and 35 years for the leg) the excitement was there to vertici.Un naturalist explained the names of albatrosses and gulls different penguins that we saw as we ship away from the blue. We all of us called a red parka jacket, regalatoci the day before the orient line, in addition to the inflatable vest in the event of falling water.