Via Rondine Ushuaia

... uma janelinha pequena. Os presos ficavam sozinhos ou em duplas. Mulheres vieram pra cah por algunas anos mas depois virou uma colonia exclusivamente masculina.

Os pavilhoes, com dois andares, tinham 3 "lareiras" centrais que serviam para aquecer. Devia fazer um frio danado nas celas fechadas. Uma lampada de 25W pendia do teta de cada cela.

Alem de tudo que jah contei sobre o trem e o trabalho dos presos, eles eram obrigados ...

... luckily catching myself all times, I am unable to get much of any traction. We continue up the road and do a hike around a lake called Lake Patitya or something similar to that. We talk with the local Argentinians that are hiking with us. They are friendly and tell us about different parts of Argentina. I love this part of the trip. It is pretty, but the weather is getting nasty and rain appears to be coming in. We head towards our pickup location, but with limited signs and with cold ...

... the lopez amd othere ranges as a backdrop. We do a little trek called the refugio lopez, where we get view from up high where you are able to apprecaite the features of this beautiful town. It is little town which we explore, we are occasionly folloiwed by the hostel dogs, Gareth hates them, I found it funny encouraging the dogs a little. I enjoy chilling out near the lake just reading my book

... hostel, which had great views with the south side of the lounge over looking the Beagal Canal and the surrounding mountains and the other looking up towards mountains. Here we did a trek up a mountain to visit an icecave which was really beautiful. The actual cave was fairly impressive but the lagoon next to the cave was more impressive as it was completely opaque and spearmint coloured. The second day we went with some people we met to ...

... remainder is a Maritime Museum. We all met up at 5pm and were taken to the port to board our "floating hotel" for the next week or so - the Hurtigruten ship the MV Fram. Our cabin was small but more than adequate - the rest of the ship was very plush. The Fram is a relatively new ship and specially designed for Antarctic and Arctic waters. We had a very nice dinner in the evening after sailing at 19.00, then collapsed into bed

... 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. ...

¨the end of the world¨... sounds pretty eerie, eh? well, it was a lot less eerie and a lot more awe inspiring. Ushuaia is considered the most southern city in the world. it is located right along the beagle channel a the very southern tip of Argentina. in fact, it is the embarkation point for most tourist visits to Antarctica. and for a meesly $7000 you can get a last minute special on a 12 day cruise to antarctica. if you book ahead, it ...

... the town briefly before heading out on a catamaran trip through the Beagle Channel to see some of the Patagonian peaks of Tierra del Fuego and the wonderful wildlife that selects this extreme local as home. We saw many fur seals, cormorants and a colony of several hundred Magellanic penguins. We even caught a glimps of another whale. It was an exhilarating day. We struck up a friendship with a couple from Slovenia ...

Tierra del Fuego National Park Excursion - Der Nationalpark wurde 1960 gegründet. Geographisch liegt der Park südwestlich der Provinz "Tierra del Fuego" an der chilenischen Grenze. Das Gebiet umfasst eine Fläche von 63.000 Hektar. Er hat eine direkte Verbindung zum Beagel Kanal. Die ersten Siedler kamen vor ca. 10.000 Jahren auf die Insel. Einer der bekanntesten Indianerstämme waren die Yamana Indianer (wichtige Infos findet man dazu unter www.wikipedia.org). Der Eingang zum Park ist gut ...

... that there would be no fourth week. I had made the sensible decision to quit the course. What was I achieving by spending 20 hours in a classroom when the interest had dwindled away. Learning another language is a disciplined matter, however discipline means nothing if you're not getting something out of it. Why make yourself unhappy? Its not the end of the world in not achieving that ultimate goal in being fluent in Spanish. With this acceptance comes a sense ...