Los Notros Ushuaia

... and arrived in BA on Friday morning. You already know what happened the rest of that day...

Today we woke up, had a lovely breakfast in the Hilton Executive lounge (thank you diamond membership!) and went to the airport for our one day later than planned trip to Ushuaia. The flight went as planned, thank God, although it was FULL of kids. Seriously, at least half the passengers were kids, and it seemed like they all knew each other. I think it was a field trip or something. Anyway ...

... scare that it wouldnt fly as was running late... We were on the plane, a cross between a cargo plane and venga bus with dodgy seats that flew back and forth of their own accord and lugguge racks that looked like they should be used for keeping fruit and veg in! I ended up sitting next to a cross dressing, boobs out, scary (possible prostitute) 'lady' and spent the whole time pretenting i was asleep... touching land (not ushuaia) has never felt so sweet!

... small emus) and gauchos (not another local animal, but Argentinan cowboys) herding cattle. The long thin town of Ushuaia, pop. 50,000 has a beautiful backdrop of snowy mountains on one side, opening out into the vast Beagle Channel on the other, dotted with islands inhabited by seals, cormorants, petrels and other sea bird life. Just its remoteness and its windswept setting make it worth a visit in itself. The Yaghan people ...

... ons zin. Vooral de verbeterde veiligheid wordt zeer op prijs gesteld door de helft van ons. Morgen gaan we het Beagle Channel bevaren per zeilschip op beestjesjacht/-visite, tenminste als Lisenka haar darmflora eens mak aan gaat doen. Dus, slaap lekker allemaal, trouwens zal wel goedemorgen zijn, aangezien het bij ons 22:00 uur is en bij jullie 5 uur later. Dus eh, let maar niet op ons, draai je gerust nog eens om en snurkze.

Woke to a glorious blue sky and sunshine. We went upstairs to the 4th floor for a very tasty breakfast and a great view of the bay. Finished packing, checked out, left our luggage at the hotel, then got a rental car.



Paul drove through the insane Ushuaia no-lane, no-signal-matters traffic to the National Park. It took far less than the estimated 40 minutes to reach the entrance. The road turned to dirt right after leaving the main town of Ushuaia ...

... passport that confirmed our stay at the end of the world) Next morning we were on our way to that colony that was located on a private farm of 22000 acres (quite impressing) - After a short boat ride the group of about 15 people arrived at an island full of penguins (and some birds of prey that were looking for little baby penguins) ... The whole thing was quite impressing ...

... old home wares and food boxes. It has a bakery attached and serves some great local beers & wines, which of course we had to sample. We then visited a couple of the towns museums which chart its history - it used to be where most of the hardened criminals of Argentina were sent to serve time, and back then it just had a prison and a few houses and 1 store. It has grown in the past few hundred years, but still has a small town feel to it. Everywhere you go here ...

... a taxi to the hotel, which found us fully agreed. To cut the long story short, on the way back from the hotel to the airport we jumped last on the last bus available after waiting, again, for about an hour. The flight was ok-ish, if you forget the fact that in the 13 hours flight we were served a meal at the beginning and a barely eatable Alisnack at the end. At the luggage reception we had another surprise. My ...

... Die Grenzueb**schreitung v**laeuft problemlos und so sind wir, nachdem wir etwa 4.300km in Chile zurueckgelegt haben in Argentinien angekommen, am Ende d** Welt !! Gegen 20.00 Uhr **reichen wir Ushuaia und mit ei***** Hilfe des Touristenbu**os finden wir Unt**kunft in dem B&B AS Nancy. D** Weg dorthin ist all**dings ziemlich anstrengend, denn es liegt etwas abseits des Zentrums und man muss ziemlich den Huegel rauf und das mit etwa 17 kg Gepaeck...aechz... Dort ...