My South America Cruise

8/14/2019 My South America Cruise

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Upon arrival in Santiago, Chile, I was taken to the Sheraton Hotel for the

first night. This is the bed I had to sleep in. Tough living, huh?


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This was the desk in the room. To the right of the desk was a 32

flat screen TV. It was interesting watching TV in Spanish with

English subtitles.


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The star points to where my stateroom was.


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This is the view of the entrance to my stateroom. I am standing near my

verandah door.


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Now I am turned towards the bed. You can see me reflected in the

mirror.


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Now I turned slightly towards the right. With the sunshine reflected in

the room, this view is darkened.


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This is one more turn towards the right. This opens up to a sofa bed

but being alone, I didnt need it. Very comfortable leather sofa though,

to watch television.


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This is one side of my verandah

You can see the open door to my suite


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This is the other side of my verandah


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Every night, along with a chocolate on our pillow, wed see a different

towel animal made by our cabin stewards. This is one of them.


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This is the Atrium that is in the middle of the ship. The top floor is

deck 8 and the lower flow is deck 7. I was on Deck 10.


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The casino on the ship. I had a lot of fun in here.


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This is the showroom stage. It is where we saw the various shows

each night. Its located at the forward end of the ship on deck 7

and 8. This particular picture was taken New Years Eve.


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This is one of the bars on the Upper Promenade Deck. Its the one called

The Mix. The bright area to the left is the jewelry store and in the distance

is the piano bar.


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This is the Terrace Grill up on the Lido Deck. Its where you get your

hamburgers, hot dogs, and french fries.


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This was our main server, Bobby, at his station getting food

ready to take to our table.


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This is Ari, our other server.


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Every night we had folded napkins in different shapes.


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The food on board the ship was wonderful. This particular item is a

dessert I had one night. Those are meringue cookies with passion

fruit sorbet. The plate is decorated with pineapple and blueberries

and drizzled with Grand Marnier.


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The view shown here is typical of what I saw from my verandah. This is

looking towards the forward end of the ship. You can see the left side of

the bridge.


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This was typical of the sunsets I saw while cruising until we got too far

south. Since it was summer down there, there was very little darkness

and as such, no spectacular sunsets.


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To show the lack of darkness, I took a picture of the clock in my stateroom

with no flash and only the natural light coming in through the windows. This

is 20 to MIDNIGHT not NOON.


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To make sure that I hit all of these, I took a picture to remind me.


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This was the view from my verandah when I first arrived on the ship. It

looks remarkably like the wharf in Seattle as well as almost every other port

we docked in. In the distance is the city of Valparaiso, Chile.


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Another view of Valparaiso.


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Beautiful Puerto Montt, Chile. We were only here for a short time so I

didnt take a shore excursion. I did take one of the taxis, though, into town

with some friends to take some photos and do a little shopping.


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The city is in the distance. As you can see in the foreground, all wharfs look

the same with the truck bodies stacked up.


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A church in town.


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Inside a small shopping mall.


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I did not go into this store.


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Can you imagine $990 for aspirin?? Actually thats $990 Chilean Pesos

which is about $2 in US money.


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Now we sail away and bid farewell to Puerto Montt. We are in for 2 days

at sea and then well arrive in Punta Arenas on the 26th.


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Heading in to Punta Arenas, Chile


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I didnt go into town here. I took some shots of what I could see from the

ship and hit the souvenir stand on the dock next to the ship.


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Notice the use of English words to attract the tourists attention???


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Another view.


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One more.


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Tour Bus for the Train to the End of the World in Ushuaia, Argentina. It also

took us through the Tierra Del Fuego National Park


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While sitting in the tour bus, I took a couple of pictures through the

window. These are other people getting off the ship.


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The tour bus next to us. Real exciting, huh?


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My view inside the bus. Real exciting, huh??


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My view of the ship as we are driving away.


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Another wonderful item at the wharf.


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Now we are entering the city of Ushuaia as we leave the wharf area.


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These are local residents of Ushuaia.


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Heres a close-up shot on the sign.


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This is a typical house in the better part of town.


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This bridge marks the entrance to Tierra Del Fuego National Park.


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Scenery looks better after going around the corner after the bridge.


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Of course there is always the entrance fee to be paid. Residents pay $4.

Non-residents (Tourists) pay $50 which is about $13 in USD


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More of the scenery inside the national park.


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The park is very green during the summer due to the frequent rain. It

rained while we were touring the park on the way to the train ride.


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This is the half-way point of the ride. The full sign reads Bahia Ensenada.

This water is at the End of the World


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This is the water from the Beale Channel as it rolls on the shore .


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This Post Office is the post office at the end of the world. It sits at the

entrance to the pier seen in the last photo. You can mail items from here to

get the Fin del Mundo postmark. I didnt. Too crowded.


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A close up of the post office.


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The sign on the pier to the left of the post office.


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Another view of the coastline.


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The sky where we stopped to get on the train at the end of the world, after

the rain. They have a saying here. If you dont like the weather,

wait 15 minutesit will change.


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The train tracks. Wow. Narrow gauge railroad.


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The train (in the background).

The foreground is an example of the car.


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Inside the train car. Notice that the No Smoking sign is in

English and not Spanish.


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This is part of the Graveyard of Trees along the train ride.


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The river running through the area.


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The view typical of the mountains around the area.


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More views from the train ride.


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This is the sign at the station at the end of the train ride.


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One final shot of the scenery as we leave the end of the world to head

back to our ship. My camera batteries died at this point so I could

not take any pictures during the return trip.


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Following our leaving the End of the World we spent 3 days cruising the

waters around the peninsula of Antarctica that reaches up towards South

America. I took a lot of pictures of icebergs.


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Along with the icebergs are craggy points of land.


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And even craggy points of land without icebergs.


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Also some very large ones.


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And even small ones.


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We came close to some fairly large ones too.


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Add this end to the middle in the other picture to get an idea of its size.


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Some interesting shapes too.


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This was an interesting pair.


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This one was 4 miles from the ship and was also more than 3 times the size

of our ship. They made an announcement about this one.

Zoom lenses are great, arent they?


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You can see how deep the snow is on the land next to the ocean. Imagine

how much thicker it is inland. The South Pole is on top of land at about

9,000 feet of elevation. It was also about 7,000 miles from where we were.


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During our time cruising the waters of Antarctica, we celebrated

the coming of the New Year.


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25 seconds to go.


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Hooray!! Its 2010. It was only 7pm in California, though.


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Father Time and Baby New YearWell, you had to be there


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Heres one more iceberg as we leave Antarctica on our

way to the Falkland Islands.


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Heres a shot of the map for Port Stanley.


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My view from my verandah.


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Had to ride a tender for this one. Ship too large to put in at the dock.

This is getting off the ship to the tender dock.


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Inside the tender. The open doorway was left open for the trip.

Nice, cold, and windy.


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Smart me. I sat next to the open door so I could take a picture of the water.


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Approaching Port Stanley. The dock is on the other side of this peninsula.


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Approaching the dock.


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The first thing we see when were on land.


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Inside the tour bus.


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This is where ships go to die.


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This ones been there since the late 1800s.


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A typical home here. It was raining at this time.


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Propane for cooking and kerosene for heating.


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Took several pictures inside the museum. This one is of various ships bells.


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Back on board ship and leaving the Falklands heading to Buenos Aires.


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This is the Buenos Aires wharf view from my verandah.


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Looks like every other wharf, doesnt it?


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Were docked in Buenos Aires. I was walking towards the tour bus.


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Construction it never ends


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From the side


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The government building.


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The local news stand.


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The front of the Government Building.


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Statues all over the city from many countries.


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Many fountains too.


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Graffiti too


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The only place youll see a blue Coca Cola logo. Thats because the rival

teams color was red.


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Some graffiti is nice artwork.


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Street vendors are a common sight as well.


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Older, poorer section of town.


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Gardens are common in high rise apartments.


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In the graveyard to the left of this church is the burial place of Eva Peron.


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The beautiful water as we head north towards Montevideo. Unfortunately,

when we arrived, there was too much wind for the harbor to open and as

such, we skipped that port. Next stopRio de Janerio.


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Here we are now in Rio, my final day.


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Narrow streets in town.


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Even in South America.


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Beautiful open air Cathedral


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Bell Tower next to Cathedral


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One of 4 stained glass windows inside Cathedral


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Beautiful architecture of old buildings among the new skyscrapers.


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I wish I could have seen the insides of some of these buildings.


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The details.


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The station for the cog train ride up to the Christ statue.


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The crowds waiting in the station Also about 100 degrees today.


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How some earn their money


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Typical view as we head up the mountain.


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The sign that greets us.


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The map of the area.


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Not real clear, but its the 6-story elevator to the top.


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After the elevator, a couple sets of escalators or 200+ stairs on the right.


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From the lower level (still one set of escalators to go)


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Panorama of the city from the lower level


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Another view of the city. Sugarloaf Mountain in the center.


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Taken from the base of the statue.


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Another view from the upper level.


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Gorgeous view from the upper level.


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The cog train for the ride back down.


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The temperature in Rio. Thats Celsius, not Fahrenheit. About 100 degrees.


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Impanema Beach


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Heading up towards the Intercontinental Hotel where I wait until time to goto the airport. Camera batteries died at this point. Will plan better on my

next trip.


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What a way to go!!!

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