Our upcoming South America cruise

Tomorrow we head out on our South American adventure.  This will be the longest “Angell Travels” yet!

We start our adventure by flying to Fort Lauderdale.  While in Florida we will spend a few days visiting our daughter, Jen, before heading out on our 49-day cruise around the "horn" of South America!

This is going to be an awesome experience for us and a trip that has been in the planning stage for almost 2 years.  When we booked the cruise, we were 600+ days out; now we are down to just a few days. We are packed and ready to go!  

Our cruise begins in Ft. Lauderdale when we board the Grand Princess cruise ship which will sail to a few Caribbean islands and then goes on to circle South America. We will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while Carnival is going on, and we plan to visit a samba school in the late evening to watch their rehearsals for the Carnival parade.  The next day we will leave the ship with a small group to fly to Iguazu Falls, which borders Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.  It is said to be spectacular.  We will be there 3 nights and then fly to Buenos Aires to rejoin the ship as it arrives there.

We then move on to Uruguay and a couple more ports in Argentina.  We go to the Falkland Islands where we have a special tour booked to travel in a convoy of 4x4 jeeps to Volunteer Point. Here we will be among the largest (several thousand) population of King, Gentoo and Magellanic Penguins. We really hope we are able to make this port as we have heard so much about how neat this tour is!  Weather problems can give ships only a 50/50 chance of making it to this port.

From here we sail on around the "horn" of South America and do some scenic cruising to see glaciers. We stop at a few ports in Chile, and then it is on to Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Mexico.

We will end our cruise with disembarkation at the port of San Francisco 49 days after we leave Fort Lauderdale! We are looking forward to an incredible trip.

As with our other trips, I will try to keep a record of what we see and do in this blog. You are invited to come along with us as I will try to share our experiences with you.

I will try to post as often as I can and post photos depending on internet access and speed in uploading text and photos. Sometimes internet access and speed on cruise ships is not very good, but I'll try to post as often as I can.

So come join us as we begin our "Angell Travels" to South America.......