South America Cruise Videos

Posted By Mark on May 9, 2016 | 0 comments

A companion post to the two articles that I recently posted outlining our recent cruise from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Valparaiso, Chile on board the Princess Cruises ship Star Princess, containg the videos that I’ve subsequently uploaded to YouTube along with some brief notes.

To read a review of the cruise see:

A quick pan around the admittedly not terribly photogenic dockside area in Buenos Aires from our mini-suite stateroom balcony.

We boarded a steam train in order to get to the winery at Juanico in Uruguay. This is a few minutes of the countryside and small towns rolling past which sadly doesn’t capture many of the happy, waving, or just plain gobsmacked locals who stopped to stare at our mode of travel.

A zumba session taking place out on deck. People who know me will not be surprised to learn that not only did I not partake I also didn’t even consider partaking.

The Star Princess outside the influence of the River Plate and on the South Atlantic, as seen from our balcony once again.

A Magellanic penguin wandering past us as we strolled through its rookery at Punta Tombo reserve in Argentina.

Two dancers showing off some Argentina Tango moves in the piazza to the enjoyment of three decks of viewers. The dancers were very good but they weren’t as good as the Uruguayans who danced for us as the winery and with whom I “danced” in front of everyone. And nobody was as good as the dancers who put on the tango show in Buenos Aires. But still good, as you can see.

You’re probably looking at this and thinking “nice filters” or “nice processing” or something along those lines. Well, stop that. The sunset that you see here was exactly as it appeared as the ship made its way southwards from Argentina towards the Falkland Islands. We’d been sitting down in one of the bars (shock) when we noticed the sudden colour of the sky outside so, along with a great many other passengers, headed out onto the promenade deck to stare at it and take some photos and video.

A quick pan around on our Falklands War Battlefields tour that we took on the Falkland Islands. As you probably could have guessed. Fascinating tour that you can read more about on the first article I wrote about the cruise.

The next three videos are from our cruising around Cape Horn. The theme of these videos is “grey”.

Now for three videos shot on a catamaran trip out onto the Beagle Channel in search of sea lions. Which we found, in case you were wondering. The landscape in this part of the world was truly breathtaking. It was, however, just a smidge freezing.

Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, and the impressive mountain ranges that surround it as shot from our balcony.

When we hit the area where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans met it got a little bumpy, much to our enjoyment. This video is shot from inside our cabin because I didn’t want to head outside. You’ll see why if you watch the video in its entirety as you’ll be able to see spray thundering past the window a couple of times. When you consider that our cabin was on Deck 9, with Deck 5 being sea level, you get an idea for how it was. I’m leaning right against the wall in the video for stability.

A couple of videos of two of the swimming pools will also show how the sea conditions were affecting everything else on board the cruise ship.

The Star Princess making its way through the Chilean fjords en route to the Amalia Glacier.

More fjords because you can never get enough of a good fjord. In terms of impressiveness we’d have to rate our Norwegian trip as higher simply because the fjords were more closer, taller, and more imposing.

On the chairlift descending on the Osorno Volcano near Puerto Varas, Chile. The mountain poking out of the clouds at the very start of the video is the Calbuco Volcano which had erupted so spectacularly just a year before. The air was so staggeringly clear that without sun block we would have been fried in minutes.