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Markandmarietravel@pixey.org

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Our highlights tour of Punta Arenas, Chile, included a visit to the cemetery, rated as one of the ten most beautiful in the world by CNN only a few ye...

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It's a sunny day with patchy, thin sheets of cloud in the sky. We're in a grand public cemetery comprising avenues of gravel between beautiful mausoleums of stone and marble. Directly in front of us there is one in black stone blocks, reminiscent of ancient Greek or Roman buildings, with a shallow, sloped roof and a portico with four fluted columns in front of the door. Nearer to us on the right there is one in white blocks with a round window set high up and a small railed-off forecourt around it with a few pretty bushes. More mausoleums of varying designs are to the left across a small section of lawn and topiary, each one no more than a few metres tall.

Our highlights tour of Punta Arenas, Chile, included a visit to the cemetery, rated as one of the ten most beautiful in the world by CNN only a few years before our visit in 2016. The area of land was donated by Sara Braun, a leading businesswoman in the region in the late 19th and early 20th century, and her body along with those of many rich families are located in the cemetery.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Cruise #Chile #PuntaArenas #Cemetery #SaraBraun #History #Architecture #Mausoleum

25.4.2025 09:13Our highlights tour of Punta Arenas, Chile, included a visit to the cemetery, rated as one of the ten most beautiful in the world by CNN only a few ye...
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Ushuaia was the last Argentinian port on our 2016 cruise aboard Star Princess and the next day we arrived in the first Chilean stop, Punta Arenas. As ...

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A lightly overcast day and we're standing in a large field with signs of settlement in the distance behind a tree line. The grass nearby is cut short and is a dry green but a little further back the grass grows wilder, taller, and is more pale golden in colour. Immediately in front of us is an old building, a small lighthouse, and an anchor. The house is built with horizontal wooden planking, is painted a pale red, and has a long porch along the front which also has a large windowed area of a grid of square panes of glass, sixteen long and three high. It's an old garage building, though lacking any signage. The small lighthouse to the right and slightly closer to us is not quite as tall as the building but is a wide cylinder of white with a thin red band around it, a small ring of windows tapering outwards and formed of trapezoidal panes alternating in direction up and down around the circumference, topped off with a red conical roof. A large, rusted anchor completes the scene with one arm embedded in the ground. Further away to the left there are more old wooden buildings and vintage wagons.

Ushuaia was the last Argentinian port on our 2016 cruise aboard Star Princess and the next day we arrived in the first Chilean stop, Punta Arenas. As is typical for us whenever we're somewhere new we headed off for an excursion first to see some highlights and get some local information from the guide. Our first stop was at the Museo Del Recuerdo (the Remembrance Museum), an open air museum in which were gathered vintage equipment (wagons, movie-making, farming, cars, etc.) and old buildings from the city and region that had been relocated to this spot.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Chile #PuntaArenas #Museum #Museo #MuseoDelRecuerdo #Vintage #Cruise

24.4.2025 08:59Ushuaia was the last Argentinian port on our 2016 cruise aboard Star Princess and the next day we arrived in the first Chilean stop, Punta Arenas. As ...
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After several hours on a boat in the Beagle Channel we returned to Ushuaia for a walk around. Stunning scenery surrounded it but the city itself is fa...

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We're on a jetty sticking out from a beach of boulders to protect the city on the left from coastal erosion and flooding. There are a few buildings visible on the left before the view on land gives way to a ring of mountains and curve around this bay of water we're at. Some mountains are in shadow with the heavy cloud cover overhead but there are patches of blue sky and some distant peaks are lit up showing sharp jagged edges with snow on the highest points. There are more jetties in front of us but the nearest one has suffered some damage and is broken apart halfway along with some spurs of wood jutting out of the flat grey-green water. A thin jetty further back has people walking along it towards tour boats that are tied up at the jetty on the right.

After several hours on a boat in the Beagle Channel we returned to Ushuaia for a walk around. Stunning scenery surrounded it but the city itself is fairly small and we mostly looked for street art and souvenirs. We did encounter a protest march at one point because that's an Argentinian national pastime, and one of our fellow cruise passengers even joined in, helping to stoke braziers and hold up flags. Probably not the most sensible thing to do as a foreign tourist to be fair, but he had fun and a good memory of his trip.

We headed back to the cruise ship with the expectation of a fabulous sail away from Ushuaia to look forward to but the wind speed and force kept our ship pinned to the dock until the early hours of the morning.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Ushuaia #Argentina #Cruise #Boat #Mountains

23.4.2025 08:09After several hours on a boat in the Beagle Channel we returned to Ushuaia for a walk around. Stunning scenery surrounded it but the city itself is fa...
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We took an excursion while in Ushuaia that saw us hop on a boat and head down the Beagle Channel for around three hours. During this time we were trea...

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We're on water, on a small boat just off a rocky islet in a dark, choppy sea of other small rocky islets under a sky with a few patches of pale blue sky peeking through the bubbling, rain-filled clouds above. The horizon shows a chain of mountains along the coast, jagged with icy tops and deep shadows in the clefts. The islets are devoid of any vegetation with pale, rough rocky tops becoming dark brown, perhaps clogged with seaweed along the water line. Atop the islet in front of us there is a lighthouse. It's a simple, slightly tapered cylinder with the lamp housing at the very top protected by a railing. The lighthouse is split into three even bands of red top and bottom with white in the middle.

We took an excursion while in Ushuaia that saw us hop on a boat and head down the Beagle Channel for around three hours. During this time we were treated to majestic views of the surrounding landscapes - particularly the impressive Martial Mountains - and got up to a sea lion colony, getting as far as the Les Eclaireurs lighthouse before heading back. It was bitterly cold but beautiful.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Ushuaia #Argentina #Mountains #Lighthouse #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Cruise #LesEclaireurs #BeagleChannel

22.4.2025 08:14We took an excursion while in Ushuaia that saw us hop on a boat and head down the Beagle Channel for around three hours. During this time we were trea...
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We had another sea day after the Falklands during which we cruised out and around the southernmost part of Cape Horn, a very grey and rainy day sadly ...

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We're on the balcony of a cruise ship in the early hours of the morning docked at a port. The sun is rising but it's behind a ring of mountains surrounding the port so everything is dark with a thick, cloudy sky and mountain range tinged dark blue. The mountains form a long band from halfway up to about three quarters of the way up the view with one individual peak to the right but the rest largely straight with sharp edges. There is some snow packed in clefts and valleys but the majority of the mountainscape is dark rock. Nestled in the darkness of the base of the mountains and sprawling forwards towards the dock out of view below us there is a city of mostly low buildings with occasional apartment blocks of a few more storeys in height amongst them. Street lights and that of some vehicles out at this time glow orange with the warm colours contrasting with the cool ones prevalent in the upper half of the shot.

We had another sea day after the Falklands during which we cruised out and around the southernmost part of Cape Horn, a very grey and rainy day sadly devoid of the fierce seas we'd been looking forward to. The following day brought us to the Argentinian port of Ushuaia. It remains to this day the most awe-inspiring view to wake up to we've experienced, with a ring of jagged mountains shadowing the small city and everything brightening up slowly as the sun rose, bringing more and more detail to the incredible, natural surroundings.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Ushuaia #Argentina #MartialMountains #Mountains #MountainsMonday #Cruise #LandscapePhotography #Landscape

21.4.2025 09:23We had another sea day after the Falklands during which we cruised out and around the southernmost part of Cape Horn, a very grey and rainy day sadly ...
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After our tour of the battlefields we had plenty of time left to explore Stanley and we made use of this with a bit of a walk and admiration of the br...

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It's a warm, sunny day with barely a cloud in the deep blue sky. We're on a dry lawn looking slightly up a slope to a long building. It's made of grey stone and has a pale green roof. The building is two storeys high and comprises a long middle section with two smaller wings at ninety degrees at each end. From above it probably looks like a classic dog toy bone or a bow tie in shape. A flag pole is to the right with the flag hanging limp and curled around it indicating not a breath of wind.

After our tour of the battlefields we had plenty of time left to explore Stanley and we made use of this with a bit of a walk and admiration of the brightly-coloured roofs, a visit to the museum, some souvenir-purchasing, then a drink in a pub busy with tourists not just from our ship but also from Argentina.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Falklands #FalklandIslands #Stanley #Architecture

20.4.2025 08:57After our tour of the battlefields we had plenty of time left to explore Stanley and we made use of this with a bit of a walk and admiration of the br...
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We had another sea day after visiting the penguins at the nature reserve in Argentina's Punta Tombo and then we arrived at the Falkland Islands. We'd ...

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We're off to one side of a rough, narrow road that winds from our left ahead of us to the right then curves back on itself and up over a rise on the left side where it disappears. The landscape here is one of low, gentle hills and it feels very dry. The road is a coarse route of crushed stone and gravel. The land is a mix of sandy-coloured soil and stone with tufts of dry grass, mostly in yellows and browns but with some greenery near the road verges. Overhead the sky is clear blue, feeling cool, but a mass of bubbling white cloud builds over the hilltop line towards the horizon.

We had another sea day after visiting the penguins at the nature reserve in Argentina's Punta Tombo and then we arrived at the Falkland Islands. We'd been warned beforehand that getting off the ship at the Falklands wasn't always possible because of the weather conditions but we were lucky enough to arrive on a gloriously sunny day.

After tendering ashore we headed off on an excursion of several hours visiting the battlefield locations from the 1982 Falklands War. Being from Portsmouth we both had memories of being in the crowds when the task force left and returned to the city, and a friend's dad served on HMS Hermes at the time.

The tour had several stops for photos and chats about battles, military attitudes, and anecdotes from our sarcastic guide (most of which went over the heads of the Americans on the tour) and we visited Estancia, Mount Kent, and Mount Harriet.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Cruise #Falklands #FalklandIslands #FalklandsWar #Landscape #LandscapePhotography

19.4.2025 10:20We had another sea day after visiting the penguins at the nature reserve in Argentina's Punta Tombo and then we arrived at the Falkland Islands. We'd ...
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After Uruguay we had a sea day on Star Princess heading south along Argentina's coast before docking at Puerto Madryn. We took an excursion that invol...

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We're on mostly flat, dry ground, pebbled, with the small warm-toned stones of browns, whites, and blacks that feel like they could be part of a beach. A few growths of small bushes intrude into the scene in the background and just coming in from the right. The view is only of the ground with no other indication of what else is around but in front of us there are eight penguins. The nearest to us is in sharp focus, has flippers raised, and is leaning forward to the left with mouth open wide, apparently in mid-scream. Its black and white body still has tufts of brown feathery down on it over its back indicating its young age. Of the other penguins, two others stand while the remainder are lying down on the ground. It's possible to tell that a couple of other penguins still have their young, brown coat.

After Uruguay we had a sea day on Star Princess heading south along Argentina's coast before docking at Puerto Madryn. We took an excursion that involved a two-hour bus ride through Patagonia - which was incredibly, incredibly dull - before arriving at the Punta Tombo nature reserve. Here we saw hundreds of Magellanic Penguins in the wild with plenty of chicks still retaining some of the soft brown feathers of youth, and it's where we learned that the sound of a penguin shouting is indistinguishable from that of a donkey braying. We were also fortunate enough to spot guanacos in the area which with vicuñas are the only wild species of camelid in South America, the llamas and alpacas being domesticated.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Argentina #PuntaTombo #Penguin #Penguins #MagellanicPenguin #Nature #NaturePhotography #Cruise

18.4.2025 12:20After Uruguay we had a sea day on Star Princess heading south along Argentina's coast before docking at Puerto Madryn. We took an excursion that invol...
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The main purpose of our excursion while in Uruguay in 2016 was to visit the Juanicó winery and partake in a wine-tasting. We'd reached here by steam t...

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We're in a large room with a high ceiling, well-lit by natural light. The floor is concrete inlaid with rows of bricks spaced out far apart and the far wall that we can see is red brick decorated with some large, dark, somewhat abstract paintings and wall decorations. and with a low wooden table and black leather armchairs set around it just in front. In the centre of the room, filling the view, there are two dancers performing an Argentine Tango (well, Uruguayan, really). The male is dark haired, powerfully-built, dressed all in black with loose-fitting trousers on his suit. The woman has long dark hair slicked back and pulled into a tight pony tail. She's wearing a burgundy velvet, figure-hugging dress with pink and white flowery frills. The man is thrusting forward on one bended knee, supporting the woman who is arched back over his thigh with her right leg planted and left leg raised.

The main purpose of our excursion while in Uruguay in 2016 was to visit the Juanicó winery and partake in a wine-tasting. We'd reached here by steam train (see last post) and had a walk around the vineyard and cellars first, then were treated to the wine-tasting itself with some lunch.

The wine-tasting was the booziest one we've ever had. Picture five glasses for five wines. A little in glass A from the people moving table-to-table, then a little in glass B, then being asked if we liked A and wanted more so getting glass A filled to the top, then a little in glass C, then B being filled up, then a little in D, then more A and filled-up C, and we sort of lost track after that. We *think* we drank two bottles per person.

After the wine-tasting we were treated to some Uruguayan Tango, and it was fabulous. After that, though, "volunteers" were requested from the visitors to dance with the pair pictured and that's how I then ended up dancing with the woman here. Well, "dancing" to be more accurate.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Uruguay #Juanico #Tango #Dance #Cruise #ArgentineTango #WineTasting

17.4.2025 08:20The main purpose of our excursion while in Uruguay in 2016 was to visit the Juanicó winery and partake in a wine-tasting. We'd reached here by steam t...
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Our excursion in Uruguay next took us on a restored vintage steam train ride from Montevideo to Juanicó around 20 kilometres to the north of the capit...

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Portrait orientation view. We're outdoors on a warm day with a sky of light, puffy, white clouds patchy in the light blue above. This is somewhere in the countryside given the grass and trees largely visible to the left and there is a raised shed in corrugated iron coloured blue and white with an orange-red roof nearby. From ahead on the right and passing by our feet to the bottom left there is a gravel track and a narrow gauge railtrack on it with sleepers half buried in the stones. A few metres in front of us stands a vintage steam train facing our direction. It has a black engine at the front and we can just see burgundy carriages behind. The front of the engine has a low cowcatcher with a sign in red behind it reading "No. 120". There's a single large lightbulb on the train's front above the main barrel of the engine and in front of a smoke stack and there are two flags either side lower down; blue and white on the left as we look, and black and yellow on the right.

Our excursion in Uruguay next took us on a restored vintage steam train ride from Montevideo to Juanicó around 20 kilometres to the north of the capital. It was fascinating to get out from the capital city and pass through the suburbs then countryside area, and the steam train itself had to run infrequently enough that it was a big draw for the locals who would all come out of their houses along the way to watch us pass by.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Cruise #Uruguay #Montevideo #Juanico #Train #SteamTrain #Vintage

16.4.2025 08:11Our excursion in Uruguay next took us on a restored vintage steam train ride from Montevideo to Juanicó around 20 kilometres to the north of the capit...
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