Hostal Del Bosque Ushuaia

... We get a new roommate, Katy from Germany and we head out for pizza. Pizza in Argentina is close to the best pizza I´ve ever had. Possibly better then NYC! (sorry new yorkers). Katy is a spanish teacher in Germany and I know I can learn alot from her. My time in Ushuaia is up though and I must go. The morning I leave is sad and I cry. Love this special place at the end of world. I must make it back here. One day....

... presidio. Nao existem mais descendentes dos provos primitivos, Yamanas e Selknam, e infelizmente sua cultura se perdeu. A maioria das pessoas nao eh de Ushuaia, vem de outras provincias trabalhar. A cidade tem pouco mais que cem anos.

Sobre os Yamanas ha uma coisa interessante. Eles nao usam roupas, se cobriam de gordura de lobos marinhos e terra, formando um crosta de meio centimetro. Tinham canoas e remar era tarefa das ...

... bothered to make another gulp it down to the strong, dry but not unpleasant strength or your now cold tea. Mate is more. Mate is culture, mate is a offering, mate does not care who you are, mate creates equals, mate introduces strangers, mate provokes conversation, mate promotes discussion, mate invokes laughter mate is not usually drunk alone. Hot water is poured over the mate leaves (looks like green finely cut straw) into a ...

... rivers and causing flooding. The trees here are frail enough as it is. Many have been shaped by the wind to grow in one direction only. They form an unusual flag-like shape, hence given the nickname flag trees. Friday, I decided to extend my stay one more day to hike to a beautiful lake, Lago Rsmerelda, (Emerald Lake). Though, it looked more blue when I went, maybe due to the weather being pants, which also ...

... night... and a rough night it was! Heather and I lay in our bunks, tucking ankles down the side of the mattresses and elbows against the wall as security, as the ship rolled from side, increasing in incline all the time. I looked through the porthole and in the light from the front of the vessel I could make out the furious white heads of the raging waves as they crashed against us and then ...

BahiaWulaia is a bay located on Isla Navarino along the Murray Channel in Tierra del Fuego Chile. This is an area of legend and great history where Charles Darwin and Capt. Fitz Roy first encountered the native Yamana and Yagan people. European missionaries attempted to bring Christianity to these native people but were met with hostility. The abandon ...

... on the lake and the stones on the ground, and I know we were less than 1000 feet above ground level. I guess with so little air traffic, they do not enforce the minimum 1000 feet AGL rules here. Once we took off from El Calafate, the flight to Ushuaia took about an hour. The sky was overcast, but it cleared up just before Ushuaia, and we were rewarded with a panoramic view of snow capped mountain peaks on barren land. It was ...

... a guy from pittsburgh holding his stealers banner, he is one of our friends on the ship. were not holding it against him that they beat us!!!!! one more landing today after lunch . stay tuned for more tales from Antartica!! it was a beautiful sunny dau here we were sweating in our artic gear, so gonna shed a layer for afternoons excursion back on ice at another bay.

... in Santiago as we originally thought - that's 4000km away and this rubber will be lucky to last another 1,000. Sunday Jan 18th START: 4014 km FROM: Rio Gallegos TO: Ushuaia, Tierre Del Fuego. FINISH: 4592 km Four customs checkpoints, a ferry crossing and over 500km of road but after yesterday's marathon effort we can only muster an 8AM wake up and 9AM departure. We are getting close to the bottom of the world here, so no surprises for finding that in the middle of summer ...

... they don't come out until evening!) - they must have incredible teeth to knaw through trees as they do (see "beaver destruction" photos with many trees chopped off in foreground). Overnight on day 2 there was loads of rain and it was cold ... woke up (on mid summer's day!) to see the surrounding hills and mountains covered in snow so ... day 3 at liesure in Ushuaia! Day 4 a 6 hour sea trip in the Beagle Channel to see Sea Lions and Magellan's Penguins ...