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bigandclever said:
I've been but I doubt you're after the same kind of trip 
Punta Arenas to Union Glacier on an Ilyushin cargo plane, few days in camp, run a marathon for a laugh, climb various bits of the Ellsworth mountains and back. Best trip of my life, hands down.
OK now I require more details as that sounds fPunta Arenas to Union Glacier on an Ilyushin cargo plane, few days in camp, run a marathon for a laugh, climb various bits of the Ellsworth mountains and back. Best trip of my life, hands down.
king great!I've been looking into this for a while now.
Much easier as 2 people for sure, as a solo traveller its a bit of a nightmare.
Theres quite a lot of cruise options from Ushuaia, and some from Chile. I've been trying to do a very complicated route which is making it much harder: The RAF do an air bridge flight from Brize Norton, short break in Ascension Island, then onwards to the Falklands. It seems there's not many onward connections to Argentina though from the Falklands, and to get to somewhere thats basically next door you have to change in Santiago.
The cruise though seems pretty straightforward. One repeating suggestion is to pick a small boat as only 100 people can be on Antartica at the same time, so with larger boats you have to take turns.
If you have bad seasickness apparently the Drake Passage is hell on earth. A few companies do flights so a 2 day crossing is a couple of hour flight, you join your boat there, but sail back. They're quite a bit more, and the planes look like ropey old soviet era tin cans.
My plan is to hang around Ushuaia for a few days and knock on the door of a few travel agents and cruise companies. Apparently last minute cheaper deals are offered since the boats dont want to sail with empty cabins.
Much easier as 2 people for sure, as a solo traveller its a bit of a nightmare.
Theres quite a lot of cruise options from Ushuaia, and some from Chile. I've been trying to do a very complicated route which is making it much harder: The RAF do an air bridge flight from Brize Norton, short break in Ascension Island, then onwards to the Falklands. It seems there's not many onward connections to Argentina though from the Falklands, and to get to somewhere thats basically next door you have to change in Santiago.
The cruise though seems pretty straightforward. One repeating suggestion is to pick a small boat as only 100 people can be on Antartica at the same time, so with larger boats you have to take turns.
If you have bad seasickness apparently the Drake Passage is hell on earth. A few companies do flights so a 2 day crossing is a couple of hour flight, you join your boat there, but sail back. They're quite a bit more, and the planes look like ropey old soviet era tin cans.
My plan is to hang around Ushuaia for a few days and knock on the door of a few travel agents and cruise companies. Apparently last minute cheaper deals are offered since the boats dont want to sail with empty cabins.
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