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It is our first day of adventures with Southern Explorations
and it is now a travel day.
Today we are going hiking and kayaking in the Tierra del Fuego national park.
Supposed to have like south Patagonia's most iconic views.
Just a little update recap, we are in Ushuaia the southernmost city in the world.
We could basically swim to Antarctica.
Our driver's here to pick us up.
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We have picked up everyone from their hotel
and we are driving through the mountains to the National Park
and it's already gotten so beautiful
and we've learned so much from our tour guide Ana.
She told us about the name of the National Park
which is Tierra del Fuego
and it comes from way back in the 1500s they were indian, like native people living here
and when the explorers were like driving their boat around the island
they were like making smoke so they originally named it the land of smoke.
But then that wasn't scary enough because they wanted to make sure
they scared like the other countries away from going
so they named it Tierra del Fuego which means the land of fire
and Patagonia is named after a monster.
They basically just named it trying to keep other people...
Monsters and fire
...away from this region so they could have it all to themselves.
And now we stopped at a train station.
Ushuaia used to be a penal colony
where they sent like the worst criminals in all of Argentina
and they make them ride this train behind us everyday
to go cut wood to warm the prison otherwise they would freeze to death.
It's actually it’s electric now and very touristic
but they still put steam on it.
We're not actually going on this tour we're just making a quick stop
because our guide told us it was really touristy.
She is just letting us a few pictures.
We're going back on the bus.
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Ready to go.
How awesome is this lake!
I can’t stop taking pictures of it.
So we're going to canoe, we're going to begin at this lake
and we're going to go down the river that is going that way.
If we go like this we will not go far, right?
If we go like this we will arrive to La Batalla Bay, alright?
Even to k port or Antarctica.
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We just paddled down the lake and then took our boat over the road right here
now we're going back in the river.
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We've just the beagle channel AKA there's a lot of waves now.
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We just finished kayaking worth of a big appetite for lunch.
It was absolutely beautiful even saw some condors
and a sea lion in the river, it was awesome.
Alright guys now we're gonna stop at a place that we have for lunch.
So if you want to leave things here in the bus, it's fine.
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Lunch was so good
I thought we were gonna have like ham sandwiches
and we had a delicious lunch.
This first part of the hike it's going to be going uphill
little by little and then once we get uphil.
We're gonna go downhill all the way to the Beagle Channel.
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-Oh such a nice smell. -I know, I do love that smell too.
Isn't that weird.
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This officially is my favorite hike ever, she brought coffee, what a view.
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While we were kayaking we kept seeing these huge kelp leaves
and we just learned that these are basically the roots of the kelp leaves
and a bunch of little things live in here
and then other things come to find things that live in here
and then bigger things come to eat things that...
...that live in here, so these are really important for the beagle channel.
Pretty fascinating.
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Getting closer and closer.
Actually I'm showing here Moscow
so you have an idea of how south we are in latitude
compared to the north hemisphere.
So we’re about the same latitude south as Moscow is north.
We're about 1,000 kilometers away from the Antarctic Peninsula
Yámanas lived here in the south along the beagle channel.
They used to ride along in canoes along the Beagle
to hunt the sea lion, to fish, to go catch food.
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We are back down at the beagle channel again and we are about to eat some nature.
This is a Calafate which is also the name of the city.
Apparently the city was named after the fruit
it's a blueberry
it's delicious, very earthy tasting blueberry.
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We just finished our hike now we're about to get back in the van.
It has been the best day, the weather's been perfect.
Our guide Ana said it was very special day
it's not usually this perfect all day long.
I could stay out here forever.
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This is officially the coolest post office in the world
is the southernmost post office right at the end of earth
unless there is one in the Antarctica,
I don't know if you can email stuff to Antarctica.