Getting Ready To Leave

So we're only two days away from leaving for our South American cruise.  We managed to navigate our way through the Celebrity Cruise web site and reserve all the shore excursions that we want to go on.  For a company that provides superior service, I'm amazed that their IT systems are overly complicated, inconsistent and only nominally functional when they do work.

We are starting off in Buenos Aries Argentina for four days.  While here we be hanging our with our friends Catherine and Gil from Port Stanley. Then we travel up the Rio Plate to Montevideo and Punta del Este Uruguay.   From there we go south, down the Atlantic coast of Argentina to Puerto Madryn where we hope to see a penguin rookery.  From there we go around Cape Horn, visiting several ports and taking scenic cruises up the Chilean fjords.  Among our stops are Ushuaia, Argentina, Punta Arenas, Chile and Puerto Montt, Chile.

The first part of the cruise terminates at San Antonio Chile, which is near the capital city of Santaigo.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any round trip excursions into the city.  So we'll have to play it by ear and see what is available when we get there.

From San Antonio we continue north, up the Pacific coast of South American, stopping in Arica Chile, Pisco Chile, Lima Peru for two days and Manta Ecuador. We then travel through the Panama Canal and arrive in the Caribbean where will be visiting the Grand Cayman Island.

After that we end our trip at Port Everglades in Florida. 

All told our vacation will take 35 days.

Here's hoping for good weather, interesting history and excellent food and wine.