B&B Nahuel Ushuaia
25 de Mayo 440 Ushuaia, Province of Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina
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Journey to the end of the World
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After a stop at the Panaderia in Tolhuin (well we only had (another) cheese and ham sandwich for lunch), we arrived in Ushuaia about 6pm, ok so it was getting late but it doesn´t get dark here until about 9pm at the moment so it was my idea to head into the National park and get the pics with the sign at the end of Ruta 3 while we were …
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Ushy Wushy
... Simple. Why couldn't they just say that? Instead we waited for 4 hours drifting in and out of sleep on the airport floor without a clue.
Anyway, back to Ushuaia. The airport we arrived at had a newly constructed, yet rustic, cabin-like feel to it and the view when we walked out was just stunning. Blue skies and snow capped mountains. All was good, except we had no idea where we were going. The Spanish school had given us lots of info upfront, but we hadn't ...
Ushuaia, southernmost city in the world
... In real Spanish it paradoxically means Land of Fire, a name given to the island a few hundred years ago by European sailors that spotted numerous campfires on the shoreline being tended by the indigenous Yamana people. Now this makes perfect sense, those poor Yamana humans must have been bloody freezing! History lesson over.
Ushuaia is an attractive little city nestled on the Beagle Channel. History lesson not over, this channel is named after the ship ...
Southern most town in the world
First stop in Argentina. The city claims it’s the world’s southernmost city but apparently there are a few other cities on the Chilean side that challenge this. It’s beautifully nestled in the mountains, but it’s pretty darn cold and very windy. Their average temperature in the summer is 13C but the windchill makes it feel a lot colder. The weather is very changeable, it seems every 5 minutes we’re either ...
Ushuaia, Southernmost City in the World
... destroy large tracts of the native linga (beech) forest.
On our way back to town, Fede stopped at a spot along the Pan American Highway, which terminates at Ushuaia, where we visited numerous shrines to Gauchito Gil, a legendary folk hero in southern Argentina and Chile.
Gauchito Gil was a Robin Hood-like character in Argentina who was killed by a policeman. Before his death, Gauchito Gil told the ...

