Leg 75 SFAL - Stanley (Falkland) to SAWE - Rio Grande (Argentina)
SFAL - Airport Info
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ICAO code: SFAL
Airport name: Stanley Airport
Location: Stanley
Useful information
Airport elevation: '
Time zone: UTC-3
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: '
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Stanley Info
Though next door to South America and Antarctica, the Falklands are British through and through, with peat fires burning in every hearth and teatimes to set your clock by. With only a scattering of inhabitants (half of whom are British military personnel), it's hardly Touristville.
In reality, the Falkland Islands' capital, Stanley, is little more than a village that, by historical accident, acquired a political status totally out of proportion to its size. Outside Government House, home of the islands' London-appointed governors, there's a visitors book that tradition insists you sign.
As many of its homes and businesses were pieced together from locally quarried stone and timber salvaged from shipwrecks, Stanley has a certain ramshackle charm, accentuated by its brightly painted houses, sprawling kitchen gardens and the smell of peat fires drifting on the breeze.
SAWE - Airport Info
ICAO code: SAWE
Airport name: Rio Grande Airport
Location: Rio Grande
Useful information
Airport elevation: '
Time zone: UTC-3
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: '
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Rio Grande Info
Río Grande, on the north of the big island of Tierra del Fuego, is called the garden city, a singular natural place 365 km. from Río Gallegos.
It is the economical capital of the city, the center of industry, oil and cattle breeding on the island. From its origin, it was connected to livestock activities, but today there is clear evidence of industrial development due to promotion laws for the installation of electronical devices assembly factories.
Río Grande is a combination of wide avenues, industrial workshops, and houses. At present there are 35.000 inhabitants, and it has turned into an important start point to visit the estancias in the region.
It has also become a fundamental area for fishing, generally chosen by national and foreign anglers to practise fly casting and spinning.
In Río Grande, the tourist is in permanent contact with nature and enjoys observing those places not deteriorated by man´s hand.
You can contemplate the plains of the Fuegian steppe, the calm winding rivers, and the Fuegian park where the first elevations start, up to the Andean lakes surrounded by forests and mountains. They offer the visitor the possibility to eat delicious typical dishes, go on photographic safaris, ride a horse, do nautic outings, access to rural work in estancias, go hiking, watch birds, etc.
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