It is a while since my last post, but this one is going to be a short one as well. From Bariloche I flew to Ushuaia. Ushuaia is the southest city on earth and they are proud of it, they sell it on everything, they give stamps in passports with ´Fin del Mundo´.
In Ushuaia I went up hiking on a glacier, the glacier was not that special but the view over the Beagle channel was magnificent. After the glacier I strolled a bit around town.
A day later I visited a musuem, located in a former prison. The museum was quite interesting about maritime exploring around the Cape Horn (named after the place of Hoorn) and the Island of Fire (Tiera del Fuego). In the afternoon I decided to do a boat tour on the channel. Seeing sea lions, plants on Brigde Island, different kind of birds and some light houses we arrived in the harbour again. The guide told us that the water is that cold you will die in twenty minutes and because the channel houses the king crab, your body is gone in an hour. They eat all of you, except for some bones.
After arriving in the harbour the guide called me and three other Dutch people back for just another beer. Another beer became another beer and after a while we decided to do another trip on the boat and there we went. Arriving at Bridge Island again the capitain said that we could swim in the water. We thought and said that he was crazy but he did. The next one jumping in the water was me, and after I went, two other Dutch people went as well. Swiming in the Beagle channel, awesome! We wore a suit, of course. 
Now I am in Punta Arenas, Chile, where I will leave tomorrow for a hike on the third biggest ice field in the world (after Antartica and Greenland), sometimes people get lost, every year people die there. There are no weather forecasts, because the weather is every day the same: rain, wind, wind and more wind. Sometimes even snow (also during summer) or thunder. Must be fun to hike there for up to three or four days. If I dont come back, they do not have a search and rescue service, so making a call does not make sense.
Enjoy Christmas and new years eve, I am going to hike!
What a crappy post, crappy written, next time a sorted post, when I have more time!
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