Day 7 Ushuaia Estancia Tunel walk

The mountains had lots of snow on the hills behind us as it had snowed the day previous to our arrival. We just can't stop taking photos of the amazing views from the hotel.





Dave came up to meet us while we were at breakfast and we started making plans for the next 2 days - hopeful that we could spend some time together before the big trip.






Heidi and Dave went in search of hire cars but there were none available we then all met Anna in the Ramos Generales to continue our plan-making.






We took TAXIs along the road beside the channel to Reserva Cultural Natural Playa Larga and headed out for our walk towards Estancia Tunel.

The walk was beautiful. When we had gotten as far as we were going to walk we stopped to eat the Vegan wraps that we had found in Ushuaia.






































On our return Linda had taken a different fork than the rest of us - thinking that we were returning the same way that we had come - so Heidi stopped to find her while Tejal went ahead to catch up with the others to let them know.










On the return Tejal's Sunnies had dropped out of her pocket .... thankfully we didn't have to go far to find them hidden in the mud.

We then headed to the shops with Dave when we got back and waited forever in the queue. When we got to the front of the line we realised that the reason it was taking so long was that the check-out people were counting the thousands of pesos.

Linda, Bill, and Heidi returned for a rest in the hotel while Tejal went in search of souvenirs, she was surprised that there were not many penguin souvenirs in the shops.

Dinner was at at Tante Sara - Sonos Patagonicos opposite a drumming group that we stopped to listen to.









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