Ushuaia
Trip Start
Oct 01, 2008
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Trip End
May 08, 2009
Cross the famed Straits of Magellen onto Tierra del Fuego, the Land of Fire. Eight hours and four border crossings later - zigzaging in and out of Chile - we reach Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. It's billed as the end of the world and with winter setting in and a chill in the air it's easy to believe the hype. I'm asked on the waterfront by an elderly Argentinean would I mind taking a photo of her and her husband. It turns out her maiden name in Kearney and her ancestors emigrated to Argentina from Ireland - we're everywhere, even at the end of the world. Took a trip out to see the sealions and the famed lighthouse and had a browse around the fascinating prison museum. Beautiful and all as it is there's not a whole lot going on here so happy to be hopping on a flight up to civilisation and Buenos Aires.
