Antarctica Adventure: Departure from the "End of the World"!
A ntarctica is often considered by most people to be a mysterious place too cold and too far away to contemplate visiting but when I realised that it was possible to visit the frozen continent as a tourist, I immediately started making plans. In this series of blog posts, I will share the details of my recent trip to South America and Antarctica, my biggest adventure yet! Antarctica is the windiest, driest and coldest place on earth. So unforgiving is the continent that only a few well adapted animals can survive on it. There is no permanent resident human population in Antarctica apart from a handful of scientists in the various stations dotted around the continent (I will write about these later). Antarctica is also the only continent that grows to several times its size at certain times of the year. In Winter, several hundreds of kilometres of sea ice surround continental Antarctica effectively doubling its size. Antarctica is only accessible to tourists during the summer season b