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Emma shares her thoughts on the tours, staff and her favourite experiences whilst she was there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>On Swoop\u2019s service:<\/strong>\u00a0I realised I failed to thank you properly for all the work you did too \u2013 less glamorous and exciting than my tours but they couldn\u2019t have happened without you! \u00a0I immensely appreciated your efficiency and friendliness, especially since it was hard to get in touch with me, and I took my time to think about what I wanted to do, and asked lots of awkward questions, when time was short. \u00a0You were great about getting me the discount, researching my questions, and just sorting everything out. \u00a0Genuinely couldn\u2019t fault anything, and I\u2019m as enthusiastic about your company as the others I wrote to you about! \u00a0I also appreciated you and Luke giving me tips about other things to do in Patagonia. It would have been good to know there was a first half to the Viva tour \u2013 I hadn\u2019t realised it started before Chalt\u00e9n \u2013 but that knowledge might have complicated things, so maybe better off without!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Top highlights on the Patagonia Tour:<\/strong>\u00a0Fitzroy hike and Torres del Paine and on the Antarctic cruise: Antarctica! \u00a0That place is beyond anything. \u00a0But if I had to choose one thing, I\u2019d say the climbing, especially the day when we climbed a mountain in the morning, cruised the Lemaire in the afternoon and scaled an iceberg at 11 o\u2019clock at night. \u00a0Beyond belief. \u00a0I know a lot of people on that trip feel really changed by Antarctica, and the climbing experience. \u00a0-Also worth noting that Aurora seems a lot better than a lot of companies I\u2019ve heard about from other Antarctica travellers, both in terms of the opportunities it offers, the experience on the boat itself (small boat = more opportunities and better group bonding), and the company\u2019s ethics in respecting the IAATO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Things the operators could have done differently:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0there was general discontent on the Patagonia tour with the $750 cash local payment (which was the same whether you stayed for the whole 24 day tour or did as I did and picked it up half way through). \u00a0There is actually no problem accessing cash in any of the places we went, so we concluded it was probably a tax thing, and it\u2019s really inconvenient.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Things I\u2019d wished were different:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0none.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma visited Patagonia in November 2012 over 13 days as part of the\u00a0South America Southern Explorer\u00a0tour of El Chalten, Torres del Paine and Tierra del Fuego.\u00a0 In Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego and boarded the Antarctic vessel, the Polar Pioneer as part of a 12-day\u00a0cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula. 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