Beagle Channel Ushuaia

Ushuaia , Province of Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina

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  • 1

    It's the End of the World...

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    This morning we went on a boat tour along the Beagle Channel. We first traveled past some small islands with sea lions and then went out towards a lighthouse. We saw cormorants nesting. Finally we went onto one island and walked around. The water was unusually calm.

    In the afternoon, the group divided up our activities. I went to Estancia …

  • 2

    USHUAIA, "the end of the earth"

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    8th February 2012, (time is flying)

    ARRIVE USHUAIA...5.5 hour flight from Lima to Buenos Aires, 3 hour stop over in BA, and a 4 hour flight to Ushuaia, including delays was a 13.5 hour trip. the turbulence arriving to BA had me feeling like I was in the kamikaze at the Newcastle Show circa 1997...

    FLYING INTO USHUAIA we were so …

  • 3

    Ushuaia, pas le gel douche, l'autre...

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    Ushuaia bien connu pour ses gels douche et ses shampoings, se définit comme le bout du monde, "El Fin del Mundo", soit! J'ai lu plusieurs fois l'intérêt limité que présente cette ville, alors comme au cinéma j'y vais sans trop en attendre pour ne pas être déçu. Et bien quelle fût ma surprise, c'est super sympa ici! Ca n'a pas grand chose à voir …

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    Cruise on the Beagle Channel

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    We woke up early and headed to the Marco Polo for breakfast (as we were told by Guido that our hotel breakfast is very poor quality.) The buffet breakfast costed ARG$49.

    After breakfast, Guido lead us to the pier, where we met with our tour guide, Valeria, who would be taking us on a cruise on the Beagle Channel.

    The cruise was …

  • 5

    Ushuaia and the Beagle Channel

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    As we sailed north across Drake's Passage, it became quite rough and the beautiful scenery was replaced by cold gray skies and choppy gray water on all sides. We finally made landfall at dusk (or late in the day - - the sun didn’t actually set until after I was asleep). I may (or may not) have taken pics of Cape Horn as I wasn’t sure …

  • 6

    Pizza, pasta and hopeful tomatoes

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    Oh travelling. It´s a constant battle between hesitating to make plans in case things go awry and being organized enough that you don´t miss out due to overbooking.

    After 3 flights and 32 hours travel time we made it to Del Fin Del Mundo (the end of the world) at the southern tip of South America. Given that Jeremy had decided to write his …

Related BlogsBeagle Channel Ushuaia

  • 1

    Bottom of the world (ish)

    32 photos

    ... in the airport to say hello. After checking into our hostel we went down the docks to check about the prices of boat trips on the Beagle Channel, and ended up going out on a sail boat that day as the weather was so nice. Well it started nice. There ...

  • 2

    Tierra del Fuego - Land of fire....and pingüinos

    59 photos

    ... National Park with the autumn colours and snow, walking the Pampa Alta and the Senda Costeria that wound around the Beagle Channel’s beautiful Bahia Ensenada and Bahia Lapataia. In the Nothofagus forests we had our eyes peeled for the apparently ...

  • 3

    As south as you can go without getting wet!

    18 photos

    ... like an overgrown snow patch than an actual glacier but is still very pretty and you get great views over the Beagle channel and Ushuaia so worth the trip. Our second excursion was to Tierra del Fuego national park, which the guide book disparagingly ...

  • 4

    The end of the world

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    ... world" related businesses I should imagine. There was also a section on all the ships that have come a cropper in the Beagle channel, which makes you understand why the route through from the Atlantic to the Pacific wasn't discovered until the 1830s. ...

  • 5

    Leonard Bernstein and the Fin del Mundo

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    ... it goes. There are plenty of things to do in Ushuaia, and one afternoon was spent being thrown around a boat in the Beagle Channel visiting windswept islands and rocks with smelly sealions, as well as Jules Verne's "Lighthouse at the End of the ...

  • 6

    The Land of Fire.

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    ... in the Beagle Channel, spotting seals, sea lions, albatross and lots of cormorants. Of course I couldn't leave Ushuaia without sailing around in the Beagle Channel. It was far from a Shackleton odyssey, but still a very nice trip, if somewhat touristy. ...

  • 7

    Driving to the end of the road.

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    ... a tiny attached museum of marine mammals called Museo Acatushún.   Situated on an isolated bay on the Beagle Channel near "Estancia Harberton" the museum is housed in a small building where three scientists live ...

  • 8

    The end of the world - Tierra Del Fuego

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    ... the second way to really piss off an Argentinian. "If this is the most southern city in the world, what's that city just across the Beagle Channel?  The one directly south of here -  do you see it over there?" "That's not a city - it's a ...

  • 9

    Concert at the End of the World

    15 photos

    ... earth'. With great anticipation, we started out on the final 450 km of the Panamerican Highway towards Ushuaia, on the shores of the Beagle Channel. Almost as though someone had flipped the switch, the calmness dissipated and we found ourselves once ...

  • 10

    Ringing in the New Year

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    ... that followed, brought us to the realisation that we would all be more than a few pounds overweight before disembarking in Ushuaia thirteen days hence. With only 520 passengers and more than 300 crew on board, there would definitely be some pampering in ...