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Saturday, 4. December

Lazy day, but only in the morning. Visit in Museo Yàmana, native people of Tierra del Fuego.

please read it...

Yàmana lived in cold and wet and windy Tierra del Fuego naked, protecting their skin with animal fat.
The beginning of their end was e.g. when europeans put clothes on them - which stayed quasi constantly wet, causing deseases...

In the evening a concert of very famous in Argentina 86-years old tango singer Alberto Podesta combined with tango show and milonga - not for tourists, just for local people. A real pleasure.

Sunday, 5. December

A great wheather - sun, sun, sun! Finally the summer begins. At this day as an australian-dutch-polish team we went to Park National Tierra del Fuego; for me it was my second visit to the reserva, so I had another route of trekking now.

 

So many branches are dressed with a lichen called barba de viejo (ols`s man beard)

Andeanian geese at the Beagle Canal

notro, fire bush

A fungus known as pan del indio covers a lot, a lot of trees, grows in huge groups and sometimes falls down next to your head.

If you squizee it makes a kind of sound you do not like...

at the different maturation stages

funny colourfull creature

water plus fallen trees  is one of my favourite landscapes

A grey fox, zorro gris, came very nearby and was very interested in my empanada con carne.

Despite having ribes vaccination I had to hide empanada, the fox came a bit too close...

Brasilian Girl, the Zebra and the Angel loved Tierra del Fuego.

The Wooly Penguin from Buenos Aires, however, stayed with a friend in Piedrabuena.

Maybe one day I would come back here to do the other treks...

 

Monday, 6 December

Mikolajki. Nikolaustag. Penguins with Santa Claus caps in the city...  Lazy day: hot chocolate, bifo de chorizo con pure de papas y ensalada. I have never eaten so much meat before, soon I will get a protein shock. Skype, finally, with my family. I have made a decision and will try to get on a boat to Antàrtida. Working, as I do not want to pay 3500 or 4000 US dollars  for a very last minute oferta. As a biologist giving talks about fauna and flora of this continent (oh, it does not matter maybe that I would do it better at mouse bahavior or neurogenetics or schizophrenia and cannabis topics) or as a translator or waitress, I am quite flexible... Do I really want to spend days and days shaking and floating on waves (I cannot even go in car in a city without feeling sick) and in a very windy and very cold wheather? Maybe they have a plenty of anti-vomiting pills :) For the purpose of visiting Antàrtida: yes, ich nehme es in Kauf. If it will not function, I will go there later as a passenger, never mind - the work there would be hard anyway. But: keep the fingers crossed...