Las Hayas Ushuaia

... het alleen maar, dus ik ga zo maar kijken of ik een tripje ergens naartoe kan regelen waar de zon schijnt. Ben net naar de kapper geweest. Het kost hier echt niets en het was ook wel weer nodig. Ben heel tevreden!!<br>Wat heb ik nog meer gedaan hier in BA;<br>- klein natuurreservaat in de stad met honderduizend migrerende kikkertjes, heel grappig.<br>- heel veel gelopen, alles is op loopafstand (ahum ben wel een beetje stijf)<br>- antiekmarkt in San Telmo ...

... dos telhados. Quando iniciaram a operacao as 10:00hs, notei que todos os visitantes estavam com esquis, interessados em ir a montanha para entao descer esquiando pela pista que lah existe.<br><br>Me sinto meio bobo em escrever isso mas fiquei preocupado em subir. Meu medo nao era a altura mas o gelo no chao que me dificultava muito andar. Minha dificuldade em perceber profundidade se agrava muito quando se trata de gelo e neve, tudo ...

... and the exercise. I run back to the lodge in time for the van pickup. What a great place!!!<br><br>Heading back to the hotel, we go out to eat at an all you can eat place. The food is ok, but Buenos Aires was great. We try to meet up with a friend that I had met the night before at any internet cafe. He is from NY and traveling for the past 1 year and a half. He drove down via central america and plans to return to Buenos Aires before flying back to the states. He is German and ...

... volunteer work if all works out. Matte, steak, red wine, meringues, dulce con leche, tango music and tango dancing and delicious empanadase (pasties!) are my tastes of the city so far. And annoying cash points hwich will only let you take out 60 euro a day, an impossibility to get samll change anywhere and a crammed suburb which makes London´s central line look like a comfy, spacious series of rooms in comparison, and cat calls ...

... for it. The hostel was also full of cool young backpackers who wanted to party all night and the music blared until 5am a couple of nights we were there so I didn´t get much sleep...it was a case of if you can´t beat them join them on St Patrick day!! I think I am back in the swing of dorm life again but it is difficult to give up such a lot of your privacy. Sharing rooms with several strangers who are often smelly and noisy is never ideal but you do get used to it.

... at the Hotel de las Americas in Buenos Aires, had a freshen up then took to the city for a wander and possibly a bit of retail therapy! The temperature reached 33 degrees so we didn't venture out for long. We went back to the hotel for a rest and a shower, then the whole group of us went back to La Chacra restaurant for an evening meal. What a great way to end the holiday!

... stream train that was originally built to carry logs down from the forest to the township, it was of course built by convicts and I can imagine it was a miserable life for them as during winter it drop down to around -40c but we must remember that they were convicts and as with port Arthur in Tasmania only the very worst of criminals were send here, murderers, rapists etc. so better for them than being executed. So the rail is now 7km and takes around ...

... for 2 hours to the terminal face of the glacier. from there you get incredible views of the beagle channel and the city of ushuaia. it was tough, but definitely worth the panoramics. the second day, we paid the entrance fee (which is almost 10 times the price for foreigners vs locals) and spend 6 hours of the day hiking in Tierra del Fuego (the land of fires). Tierra del Fuego is the main national park at the end of the world. and ...

... clothing makes us look like gay Eastern Bloc skiers circa 1987. Some photos with our wonderful hosts and then its off down the long road to Ushuaia. Once out of the Buenos Aires metropolis its a monotonous blat down Argentina's equivalent of the Hume Highway. Dull flat transport sections with 2 corners (yep, counted them) before our nightstop. We manage to break up the monotony by engineering our own mechanical problems. Following instructions for easier starting and getting ...

Ushuaia; Letterlijk en figuurlijk het einde van de wereld! Na weer een volle dag in de bus kwamen we aan met guur en koud weer.. Alles om ons heen zag er grauw en naar uit; niet echt een leuke binnenkomer dus. De naam Vuurland is dus door de Spanjaarden bedacht, zij zagen vanaf hun boten een constante rooksluier over het land hangen. De indianen (Yámanas) die verantwoordelijk waren voor de vuren die de ...