Friday, May 22, 2009

Argentina: Ushuaia - Hiking

The national park is recommended by guide book. We can see the Andes mountain on both Chile side and Argentina side as the backdrop of the hiking trail...

Yes, it is nice when talked about it.

It was a cold and wet morning. Sun did not rise until 9am and was behinds cloud. Took a van there and it was raining... Hiking on a rainy day...

The van driver did not speak English and we do not speak Spanish. We got off with some other tourists. Then started heading to the trail... on a road of about 1.5km, coverd with ice.

Was really slippery that many of us almost fell. (which i did later on during the hike) Luckily, the scenery worth it, especially when the sun came out of the cloud from noon.
The trail was said to be of moderate difficulty. But there are steep slope that one may need using both hands and legs. And, as the guidebook said, road sign is kind of vague sometimes. It turns out to be part of the fun. Path is not paved. Occasionally there are small yellow sticks stuck on the ground indicating it is part of the trail. So, we have to watch out every now and then to make sure we are on the right track. (We did go wrong for twice...) Though, you will be very happy when you see the yellow stick while you feel you may have got lost.

The highlight of the trail we walked is the first half, which is along the coastline. Sometimes with greenish stones and sometimes with sands as the foreground. Color of the snow mountain changes with sunlights.

There are also some wildlife you may see, like seabird, rabbits...

We were lucky that when we finished around 4pm, it rained heavily!
There are other part of the trail that takes another day...

2 comments:

Cannes、瑩瑩、彤彤 said...

舅父:

我係彤彤,你的照片很漂亮啊呀!

So B said...

thank you... and more is coming