What a beautiful honeymoon we had in Antarctica, we were hoping for an trip of a lifetime and we certainly got that and more!!! We had the most amazing time on the Prof. Molchanov, a nice size ship and nice people - very international.

Both Christian and I have traveled extensively but this trip was the most amazing...It is extremely expensive but really worth every penny.

We spend the first 2 days going over the Drake passage - luckily we were not sea-sick (1/3 of the boat was...which is definately not nice) and then we arrived in Antarctica (south shetland islands) where we saw our first penguins....such a fun animal to watch, always talking and moving in their funny way! It was my birthday so it was a very special moment.

We then continued our trip around the top of the antarctic peninsula, going out on zodiacs to different islands twice a day (Paulet, livingston, deception,...) where we saw many more penguins, seals and blue-eyed shags (cormorant family).

After visiting a few islands along tip of the Antarctica peninsula, we moved a short way down the west side of the peninsula and starting seeing the most fantastic icebergs and glacier sceneries. We saw seals lying on the ice in the middle of the sea. On New-Year's eve, we were lucky to have a few whales swimming next to our boat - this was very special moment.

The weather of antarctica is something extremely wild, the temperature was around 2°C but the wind was this extremely cold wind which just went through you and made you extremely cold - we are from switzerland and use to the cold in the mountains but it is nothing compared to the cold we experienced.

Unfortunately we had to head back to Ushuaia for the end of our trip, we both had a few tears saying goodbye to the ship.