La Posada del Fin del Mundo
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Travel Blogs from Ushuaia
Navigating the Beagle Channel
- took a boat on the Beagle Channel and navigated past the self-proclaimed southermost city of the world, Puerto Williams
- arrived at and took a tour of Estancia Harberton
- continued by bus to see some flag trees and visit Valle De Lobos
- had another all-you-can-eat BBQ dinner at La Rueda Parrilla
Ah, lovely Ushuaia with PENGUINS!
We flew to Ushuaia from El Calafate. (Amusingly small airports!) Place wasn´t as cold as I was expecting (just like home to be honest) but was glad of the gas heater in our room! Surprisingly expensive place too but again, it is a place that I would recommend going to if only for the Penguin Island! Really amazing. We took the boat out from the …
The end is near !
On the 24 I join my uncle for his birthday, and he happens to be in Ushuaia. I felt so good in Buenos Aires I stayed as long as possible and took a flight to "la cuidad la mas austral del mundo" (anyway for such a remote place the price is the same by bus).
Well, it does feel like it is the last place before Antartica. No typical building …
The sky was still light at 11 pm...dusk is falling
... to the penal colony or maybe a reference to the Faulkland War (here called Malvinas) and for which veterans still protest their treatment when Argentina lost to England.
The city of U. is built on a harbor just off of the Magellan Straights yet flowers abound including my favs..the sunny dandelion! It somewhat resembles a Greek village clinging to the mountain ...
Ushuaia - skiing, hiking and sea lions!
... hostel which was nice and homely. Most of the people there were Argentinian or Chilean (I could identify the latter because they say 'bue' as a greeting instead of 'hola' or 'buenos dias' etc). Got a bit of Spanish practise in but it is hard really because I do not yet know enough to properly socialise...my conversations are quite mundane!
So the day after I arrived I went skiing...it was the last day of the ski season so I visited Cerros ...