PENGUIN ISLAND IN USHUAIA! THE WORLD'S SOUTHERNMOST CITY (PATAGONIA ARGENTINA)
good morning everyone it's a very early start to the day here in ushuaia in patagonia it's around 6 40 a.m right now and today is our final day in patagonia unfortunately but we're going to be doing a boat tour to visit uh penguin island which is probably the thing that we most wanted to do here in usawa and it's gonna cost 13 500 pesos per person so we're just heading to the place now where we booked the tour and then we'll be heading there so we booked the tour on the waterfront here and that's the company there pirato if you want to book it exactly like we did but there's loads of different companies here but yeah some of them are doing different kind of boat tours but this one definitely has the penguin island ready for some penguinos yes i am excited uh but i i also read that there are two kind of tours for the penguins this one that we're doing which includes the walking in the island and the other one which is just a navigation so people said that they couldn't see the penguin so up close yeah we're supposed to actually actually be like walking with the penguins yeah like keeping a distance but in the same island so i think our experience will be a little bit better in that sense we'll find out yeah we'll see so we've arrived at the spot here where we're going to get the boat back there i think it's called estancia how long did she say the boat was to the island only 15 minutes oh just a quick one yeah and the weather's actually not so bad right no it's not raining so that's good yeah we thought it was gonna be a colder especially this early that's crazy yeah there's gonna hear the noise there's like thousands that's the the greeting yeah hello humans there's three there three little ones look at this little guy it's coming really close isn't it have you ever seen a penguin before normally at the zoo only at the zoo going for a swim so the guy said there's uh 5 000 couples right yeah this species but there are other other ones from other species yeah i think there's like three main types right yeah but one species there's only one penguin of that species oh really yeah there's one single penguin yeah all right that penguin needs to mate to have more so on this tour we were able to go to five different viewpoints so i think this is the second one here so around here since this is an island that they come to for a mating right to have kids you'll see loads of holes that they make and that's where the children are in the hose so these are probably a couple right chris and carol everything yeah chris junior's down there somewhere uh so in the middle of this group here there's a king penguin that it's called it's a lot bigger and it has like a yellow chest way bigger than the other ones yeah and there's only that guy here oh that's the one yeah from the species yeah the king of the penguin island so this one here is a collecting bits of grass to give to the kid i think look at all that grass in the mouth loads of penguins on the beach on this side look at all those penguins going for a swim hey carol they're hiding under the stairs look i wonder what the sound is about meeting somebody taking taking care of each other yeah this part we're super close because they're coming on the trail as well so can't avoid them cycles i think he's trying to mate this is a pretty big guy never thought i'd get this close to penguins yeah it's the magical yeah it's crazy how they handle this much um yeah because they're not very furry right just body fat yeah i think so yeah it's absolutely freezing now like this icy cold antarctic wind or something i think it's only like four degrees but it feels way worse so i asked the guide what it means when they're like screaming and shouting and she says it's just communication usually when they're happy so there's a lot of happy penguins on this island they're going crazy yeah happy penguins and happy tourists yeah happy tours as well this is an amazing trip wow um i got this guy here oh he's on the move yeah so when we booked this we knew that it was going to be an amazing experience all the reviews were just pretty much saying like once in a lifetime experience so yeah we knew it would be awesome guaranteed so on the way back we ended up stopping at this cozy little cafe here and i didn't even know that there's food included in this tour but it's more like cafe food like snacks um yeah like dessert stuff like that but had some nice uh hot chocolate so that was good and i mentioned in the last video that chile was in front of us so here it's much closer you can really see the mountains now and that's the main town over there puerto think there's like 2 000 3 000 people that live there i think the rest of the island's pretty much remote and it's funny that my phone has connected to the internet from chile i got a message saying welcome to chile but i'm in argentina that's my t-mobile planet so that tour has ended now we ended up going back to our hotel for about 30 minutes and now we've come to do a trail at a spot called laguna torches so we just got a taxi back there and we arranged with the guy to pick us up in about four hours time and it's gonna cost a thousand five hundred pesos each way i think we're about 15 minutes from the center so yeah it's not very far and the popular trail to do here is called laguna's meralda but yeah we saw some reviews about this one and uh yeah some people thought this one was better and it's also less busy but the thing about this one is um it's a shorter trail than esmeralda but yeah people said it's just constantly uphill so it's supposed to be about um three hours round trip which is way smaller than what we've been doing in like el shelton so it shouldn't be too hard for us right no no i hope not yeah and this is our last trail in patagonia yeah the last trail yeah they weren't joking this this is super steep and like muddy luckily it's not that wet because we just be slipping like crazy so i think it's like 600 meters elevation but only over an hour and a half so that's quite a lot of uh elevation in a short distance yeah guys if you're gonna do this trail definitely come in proper boots with grip because it's just that the whole way just this like sludgy mud sludgy slippery mud it's not even rainy and it's still super sleepy it's kind of small yeah there's tiny specks of snow yeah but you can't really see it no almost carol's first snow ever almost let me film carol sliding down sliding down the mountain cow succeeding carol winning so we're doing a great job we just went on some crazy path through the forest and then we realized we were clearly not on any proper path at all loads of places look like pass or they are faster of other people that made mistakes i don't know so we were supposed to cut up here i think the lagoon is through over there but we just came up all this forest here oh these are some nice views look behind you girl oh yeah wow how are you handling the cold brazilian especially my fingers yeah you can see the little snowy specks get in the camera i don't know if you can see it on the camera one just went on your your hat yeah first no almost almost hey maybe it'll get even better let's see now how the hell do we get down there i think we can cut down here maybe no i don't know maybe go further up what do we do carol yeah maybe we'll go that way go that way all right we're going up so from here you can actually see the other lagoona the famous one esmer alda so yeah it's just a flat trail longer but flat trail looks beautiful though the surroundings of it yeah over there the mountains are more icy aren't they yeah yeah wow i can't get enough of these patagonian mountains amazing man look how nice this is the waterfall coming from the lagoon so i think the lagoon is just over here now but yeah this waterfall is really beautiful going all the way down good photos yes yeah this is a place where you need a good camera yeah not my crappy gopro for pictures anyway yeah all right one minute to go all right here it is wow the color certainly lives up to its name really is turquoise isn't it beautiful yeah we're the only people here yeah yeah we saw people coming down the trail quite a lot but yeah all to ourselves yeah nobody was coming out the trail looking out for a backdrop as well wow so it actually only took us an hour to get up here not an hour and a half and that's even with us making a mistake we didn't make the mistake probably got here in like 45 50 minutes but we only arranged with the guy to pick us up in like three hours time so yeah i guess we're gonna have to relax out here for like two hours or something or even more so since we have so much time to kill we're just inventing our own little hikes around here now trying to find different viewpoints so there's no trail up here but yeah it doesn't look too bad i mean easy to walk on it's funny the the ground here is like soft right yeah spongy yeah yeah yeah it's nice to walk on though yeah comfortable and if you fall there's no problem just don't fall on the rocks yeah man i love this laguna probably the nicest color water we've seen out of all the lagunas yes i think i think i prefer this color even in the laguna de los tres but of course laguna de los tres is more beautiful way more beautiful no comparison because of all the big mountains fit roy and yeah it's just you can compare but this is awesome as well carol you you always wanted to go to iceland this is the training for ice for the iceland weather here she comes gotta run to stay warm all right all the way up yeah we're almost at the top now the views from here are way crazier now so can actually even see the icy peaks couldn't see that from down there really close i bet there's people that actually go up where we're going and then walk all the way across could probably do it now on this side as i can see way more mountains could only see these before going all the way back there and soon we'll see what's on the other side see we're not the only people that do this footprints all right we made it to the top of the mountain that we wanted to climb and look at this for a view behind the mountain wow that's a long way down look at these mountains though wow especially that one what do you think carol climb number two that mountain over there freeze to death no it's enough i'm joking no chance ain't no mountain high enough you know what sunk uh-huh who is it like tina turner or something yeah i think ain't no mountain high and low i don't remember the rest of which we're still going up though barrel is fed up with me already i keep wanting to go higher and higher now this will be it for sure carol you're missing out get your butt over here all right definitely not going further than this now okay now we can see the complete valley on this side there's actually something that looks like a tent over there i think there's a tent a blue tent yeah you could definitely walk across here though people must do that hey girl i think that is a tent over there right yes i think so a blue one yeah maybe there are some rock climbers or i don't know hikers some crazy people yeah all right that's it carol hey yeah we're a thousand percent gonna do more trips like this one in the future that'll be us camping over there soon probably not i want to become a rock climb rock climber yeah yeah we didn't mention but that day that we went to laguna del toro there was an avalanche right and uh a guy died the day we went when we were there we saw some helicopters and we we thought it was like a tour or something helicopter tour but later on we found out that there was an accident yeah it was very yeah very sad yeah everybody was talking about it in town we were talking about it so yeah it's a dangerous uh sport but i guess they do it for the thrill i guess yeah for the three or for the views all right so now it is spa time the best time so at the reception you just have to arrange the time that you want to go i think because of uh kobit maybe it's not because of cover i don't know but i think they make it like a private just for yeah just for you so it's a bit noisy in here got the bubbles going nice yeah that's what we needed after the cold weather also got a swimming pool in here they do have a sauna here right there so all right not sure if you can see me properly in here i'm in the the sauna now carol didn't come in she just went in the swimming pool the swimming pool apparently is harder than the jacuzzi so yeah that would be nice but i decided to come in the sauna for 15 minutes i haven't been in a sauna i guess in like three years jacuzzi too oh we did the indigenous sauna in uh mexico that was completely different though man this is intense i forgot that uh time goes slow in a sauna 15 minutes feels like half an hour feels good though especially when you get out after it's a really good feeling so this is the end of our argentina and patagonia trip unfortunately we're not ready to go we really want to stay here especially since there's so much to do here here in oshawa there's so many other trails and tours that you can do even in el shelton we didn't do all the trails so yeah there's more things to do in each area originally we were supposed to stay three weeks here but then we got covered and it changed our trip so we only ended up staying uh two weeks but we did all the main things that we had planned we just kept doing stuff every day to try and be able to do it all and we just loved uh argentina as a whole like the people have been nice food's great again just so many attractions just been a interesting place to visit very different to any other place that we visited in south america especially because like buenos aires felt like europe and yeah this here doesn't really feel like south america it's all cold way down south so yeah different experience for us i'd say the only negative side was the complications for foreigners with the the exchange issues that they have over here the money exchange so i mentioned before that if you're using your credit card or debit card in banks atms or to pay for things the exchange rate is really bad from the government so you end up paying double so basically if you bring your own cash into the country or if you use like western union you can get the good exchange rate and you're going to pay half the price which is more like the actual correct price of things but then the complicated part is there are some things that you have to pay with your card so for example this accommodation here we paid in cash and that's why this is cheaper than some of our other accommodations in like el shelton which were way more simple those places we paid on like airbnb so you're getting that bad government exchange rate yeah and you end up paying way more than the place is actually worth because this is like a four star hotel and it's cheaper but yeah we were able to pay this in in cash on booking.com it gave the option to pay in cash and also for other things it's like the peak season in argentina so there's loads of tourists here and it's advised to book your tours in advance also but then you have to do it online which is paying with your card and you're going to pay twice as much as it's worth and we didn't do that we were just turning up and trying to book tours for the next day and it was like super complicated because we wanted to pay in cash because for example like that glacier tour it already isn't that cheap anyway like me and carol paid in cash and probably for the entire day we spent about three hundred dollars but if we were to do that all by card online the tour would be around like 500 600 which is obviously crazy for argentina and south america that's more like uh iceland prices or switzerland tour prices but they're the most expensive countries in the world right yes i usually don't expect to pay like 300 per person for a half day tour in south america but it's just the exchange rate issue but we still got around it and had a great trip and we were still able to do everything so it was no big deal in the end just a bit more confusing and more difficult to plan things and the next video should be from portugal we're going there just for a week or two very quickly and then yeah we're still trying to work out what country we'll go to after that we're not entirely sure yet so if you like this video and the argentina series just drop a like to support us subscribe like see more videos like this one follow us on instagram and we'll see in the next one you
2022-02-19 11:37
