Arriving into Punta Arenas and making the short walk to the hotel in the town made you realise that you had acquired 'sea legs' as everything seemed a little bit floaty! Punta Arenas is the End of the World Chilean style and like Ushuaia it does feel remote, in fact there is no road linking Punta Arenas to the rest of Chile as you have to go via Argentina for around 1,000km north to head back into Chile. Our first stop, after checking into the hotel, was Lomits...

Our three nights on board the Via Australis started in Ushuaia and took us via Cape Horn, through the Beagle Channel and finally arriving into Punta Arenas in Chile. What a great experience this was! The cabin on the boat, which had around 100 guests on board, was plenty comfortable for three nights and had an en-suite bathroom too. This was not a sun lounger, brolly in a cocktail type of cruise, it was a waterproofs, woolly hat, gloves and life vest type of cru...