Hotel Cabo de Hornos Ushuaia

... It is a pretty small city, but there are quite a few things to do down here. It is quite a big port town, lots of cruise ships and ships from here also sail to Antarctica. <br><br>We spent the first day on a 3 hour boat ride through the Beagle Channel checking out the diverse wildlife - penguins, cormorants, albatross, fur seals and various other birdlife. There is also a lighthouse known as the ´Last Lighthouse on Earth´, but there ...

... snow shoes which was weird. Alot of sexercise because you are lifting your legs right up.<br><br>Then went driving a snow mobil. Awesome! Cruising through a forest on a snow mobil.<br><br>Then went on a dog sled ride which was the best. Sliding down hills and being centermetres from bushes while whisking around corners. Then the guy turned the light off and in pitch black dark going through the forest was awesome.<br><br>A day well spent in Ushuaia, the ass of the world.

... actually the furthest urban dwelling south. That title belongs to Puerto Williams, just a triathlon away, down the channel and back over the aquatic border in Chile. I'd read that the small marina in Puerto Williams is an old cargo vessel, now a decrepit museum, inside which floats one of the most unique bars a lover of alcohol is ever likely to visit. To avoid an otherwise unreliable and hideously expensive trip there, you really needed the service of a boat. Et ...

... offered a free, 2 hour trip in compensation. Again, cold and windy, but we were rewarded with better views of the seals and sea lions, and a hoped-for lifer, the Snowy Sheathbill. In the afternoon we did solo expeditions for a couple of hours. I did the laundry, while Nathan went to buy our bus tickets out of Ushuaia and take a taxi to the landfill to look for some bird (see next entry). Next stop, Punta Arenas, Chile.

... it could be worst but it could also be alott better, ther´s a soower wide open that stink´s up the favella that runs through the favella, all ther soower pips are exposed and the electrical weiyer´s are all bair, so if you touch then, good luck. The streets are extreamly nairow, you could spread your arms out and touch the walls hand to hand, not to mentions the houses are extreamly small, they build up, if they can, the taller the ...

Ushuaia Ushuaia you are simply amazing. Whoever said going to the Southern most city in the world was just about getting your passport stamped has obviously never had the pleasure of being here. I got back yesterday afternoon from seven hours of trekking in the most beautiful National Park that I have ever had the pleasure of walking in. We found cove after cove of paradise of green grass, autumnal orange ...

... our hike (+/- 7 hours) we could see our breath and we were quite happy to sit in the bus back to town when it started raining :). From the wildlife the Park was quite fascinating - we could watch a huge beaver damn (didn't see a beaver though :( (1.2 meters and 25 kilos!!), dozens of woodpeckers, a fox, at least a million bunnies (they seem to be quite a plague in Ushuaia), birds of prey etc. ...

Hello Feb 8 2009 730 AM 62 degrees Latitude Yesterdays blog was dated wrong should have been 7 Feb will correct that when I get home. One loses track of time out here, as time is rather meaningless. Well today is Polar plunge day , Susie is battling a cold so has decided it wouldnt be wise to do, but I going to go for it , even tho it defies human sensibility!!!!, The water is a balmy 32 degrees F , to be ...

... the road passing a number of planes I began to get this feeling of dread. I spotted a LADE plane and it was pretty small (well OK not that small probably seating 75 people) but not really what I was hoping for. However as the bus passed this one I saw with horror that the next plane seemed to be plastered in duct tape and the engine was covered in plastic! Fortunately the bus was just turning around and the 'small' plane that was ours didn't seem such a bad option ...

... penal colony and the town grew up around it. Before the Panama Canal, it served as a stop for ships traveling around South America. Lots of corrugated steel used in construction and Lupines growing everywhere. I have never seen such beautiful Lupines as on this trip. It had become overcast so I took the tender back to the ship.