Lennox Hotel Ushuaia

... went fine on the bus and we are feeling good. We take a taxi to the airport, about 15 minutes away from the bus station. On the way I look at our boarding passes that I had printed the day before. I thought we were leaving around 1pm on Friday but I notice that the date says Sep 19. Uh-oh. I check the original reservation and notice it says Sep 18. Hmm. Iīm a little nervous. We get to the airport and wait in the line for check-in even though Iīve already checked in. It is super long ...

... further south, but none of any substantial size - Ushuaia has a population of 65,000). The bus took 13 hours including a short hop across the Straits of Magellan and (hopefully my final) border crossing. A few more stamps for my passport (including four from the tourist office, bizzarely) and I have a flight booked to my next destination, to see one of the worldīs few remaining advancing glaciers.

... no one was complaining about the views! Puerto Natales is where we were dropped off from the boat. This is the gateway to Torres del Paine National park. Weīd heard nothing but amazing things about the park. We spent our first day visiting various lookout points. The mountains were capped with snow, the trees were a mix of green, yellow and orange. We couldnīt have asked for better weather. We then stayed the night in one of the hiking huts. It cost us $88 NZ ...

... museum about the convict history and the maritime history of Ushuaia, it turns out this place draws many parallels with Australia and places like port Arthur. The museum is a great day and worthy of spending a good half day there. It is located right in town so you can walk there from most hotels. Tomorrow it's off to the airport and a long day of travel to Lima via Buenos Ares. See ya.

... we jumped the queue, along with many other people.



We had almost an hour to kill before the car rental opened, so we sat in the café, enjoying a real cappuccino. It rained a bit but decided to stop about the time that Hertz opened. We had no problem renting, or driving to the port, or collecting our bags (having been warned that sometimes security would not let people who had disembarked back onto the pier). Absolutely no line, no customs, at all, unless you count a ...

... few days I planned on being in Ushuaia. Back to the hostel read for a while then went to get meat for dinner. Cooked Iris's steak Puerto Rican rice and onions sans sazon (awesome meal everyone in the hostel was commenting on it). Met Franando and his wife (USA) talked with them about travels. The lived in Taiwan for a while. Met Brent from (WA) he was leaving for an Antarctic cruise. Brent gave me his pass to Tierra del Fuego national ...

Good morming all you superbowl fans its super bowl Sunday. I may get to see the game here dont know yet if it will be on or mot. Today we head to tierrrs del Fuego national park. We met a I talian couple who will be on the cruise, hes a lawyer and she works for IBM they know some English, Met a lady from Tennessese, who also will be on the Orlova with us, we ...

... Argentines so you are always surrounded by Spanish, good for us gringos. Very cool to see that in a tourist oriented town, there is little pressure to buy stuff. Maybe we have forgotten what South America is about, but our experiences in Asia, and mostly in Africa had many touts approach us about buying anything and everything. In 4+ days in Ushuaia (silent 'h' in Spanish) we had one guy try to sell us something for about 4 seconds. Otherwise unbothered. That ...

Another long bus journey to the end of the world... It would have been quicker if we hadnīt had to cross Chilean territory before reentering Argentina but itīs impossible to get down here without doing this if youīre travelling overland. I think we stopped at least half a dozen times for customs and immigration. It got noticeably colder ...