Antarctic blog 2

22 Dec 2018 
Today we woke up very  early to catch a 4:30 am flight from Santiago airport. This flight would take us to Punta Arenas witch is at the bottom of  South America. 

When we landed there we rented a 4X4 SUV from Europcar. 

The person at Europcar told us that the car we had booked cannot go to Argentina. We had to cancel all our hotel bookings in Argentina and make new bookings in chile. We drove to Puerto Natales via Villa Tehuelche. At Puerto Natales we could not find one hotel for 3 nights of Christmas 24, 25 and 26 December. Some hotels were closed. We found one hotel who got us rooms for 2 nights of 24 and 25. Then we found  another with rooms for the 26 th night, and finally we were organized. Now we drove to the torres del paine national park 

 where our Hotel Lago Grey was and we stayed for 2 days. We had a very nice view of the Grey glacier from our rooms.

On the way we stopped at  some places like Cerro Castillo, Lake Sarmiento etc for some beautiful photos. 

We reached our hotel at 6:30 pm. It is a very big hotel just next to the grey lake from witch it gets its name. 

Our rooms were having views of the lake and also the grey glacier it was very beautiful. We went for a walk by the water front at 11 pm and there was still light. 

Antarctica Trip blog

21 Dec 2018
Today I am very excited because we are going to the airport to fly to Santiago Chile. I got my bag and packed it.we loaded all our bags into the car and drove off to the airport. We found a parking space and off loaded all our baggage and went to check in. After that we went through security and waited at the gate. Our plane name was LATAM airways. 

When they announced that our plane was ready to board we  found our seats I picked the window seat. After I had fastened my seat belt I looked out of the window and saw so many ground staff working such as filling fuel , guiding planes  and people. We started taxing. once we got to the runway the pilots started the engines at full throttle. and the plane zoomed down the runway the plane went high in to the sky everything on the ground looked like a toy model at that height.



A couple of hours in to the flight we got pasta for our dinner it was very very nice. After the meal I fell asleep. When I woke up it was breakfast time after breakfast it was time to land. We were told that it is the afternoon of 21st in Santiago. It was like we traveled back in time using a time machine. From the airport we went to our hotel in the Santiago Airport and slept there.