An Ethereal Adventure
AS MY DAUGHTER, Ida, was growing up, Pingu was one of her favourite cartoon characters. We would often watch the penguin waddle on television for hours. Even today, our collective love for penguins is so profound that when I went to Australia, I did not go to see the flightless birds because she wasn’t with me. That, however, is set to change—in a very special place.
It all starts at a small archipelago in South America called Tierra del Fuego. Translating to the ‘Land of Fire’ in Spanish, this wind-lashed land is at the edge of civilisation—it’s the southernmost city in the world—and hence, an apt precursor to
