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Mar 16, 20232 min read
Buenos Aires – Bright Colors & Mausoleums
Leaving Montevideo, Uruguay, and sailing west through the mouth of the Plata River brings us to Buenos Aires. The city's name means...
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pswartz
Mar 10, 20232 min read
Puerto Madryn – Day of Tuxedos
Nestled on a sheltered harbor facing the Golfo Nuevo, Puerto Madryn is Argentina’s second-largest fishing port. In the mid-19th century,...
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pswartz
Mar 5, 20231 min read
Rounding Cape Horn, South America
Today we rounded the southern tip of South America - Cape Horn, named by a Dutch navigator for his hometown, Hoorn in the Netherlands. ...
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pswartz
Mar 4, 20232 min read
The End of the World – Ushuaia, Argentina
The screeching of steel wagons, as the locomotive moves forward, wakes up the disturbing white landscape that surrounds us. Outside, the...
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pswartz
Mar 1, 20232 min read
Puerto Montt – a Little Germany in South America
Today we are in Puerto Montt, located about two-thirds of the way south in Chile. This is in the Lake Region of Patagonia which has...
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pswartz
Feb 26, 20232 min read
Kicking off our Viking South American Cruise
We will be on the Viking Jupiter for the next 18 days sailing from Santiago, Chile south through the Chilean Fjords, around the horn of...
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