The weather is pretty finicky here, to the point where I'm pretty sure all of the weather prediction technologies have just decided to play it safe and say that there's a 50% chance of rain 24/7. So when we caught absolute perfect weather on the day that we were planning on resting after our aggressive start, we decided to make a mad dash for Tierra del Fuego national park.
There are all kinds of tour companies that will try to get you to take guided tours of the park, which is completely unnecessary, so we just rolled up to the main bus station to see what our options were. People generally try to convince you to go with their bus company, and one guy we talked to flagged down a bus that was leaving, and sold us two round-trip tickets for 400 pesos (pretty much the going rate). We had to pay another 140 pesos each to get into the park, so it's starting to add up (works out to about $54 per person total).
The second we arrived we forgot all about it though, as we got an absolutely incredible view of the southernmost post office on the planet.
There's a chance that we mailed stuff from here, keep your eyes peeled, moms!
It was actually a bit of a coincidence that we found this place, there are only a few main trails in the park, and we wanted to check out the one that goes along the water. It just so happens that this post office is at the beginning of that trail.
I took a stupid amount of pictures and videos along the way, it was just so perfect out, we really took our time getting to the end. They said the trail takes about 3 hours, and the buses back picked up either 3 or 5 hours after we first started, so we aimed for the last one of the day because why would we rush through this?
One of the many instances of me being impressed by the view.
The water did not look real
Pretty.
View of the mountains through the trees.
Admiring the view.
Admiring the view from under the water.
Adventuring.
There are probably another hundred pictures where this came from, so whenever we find ourselves with decent internet we'll be sure to post those.
After the main hike, we found our way up to a main visitor center just as it was closing. As people left, horses started taking over the grass, which we contemplated stealing since the last bus of the day was about 20 minutes late, but it all worked out.
Not a bad day!