Ushuaia: The End of the World

So, one more 12 hour bus ride, and we reached our most southernly destination in S America, and also, the most southernly "city" in the world.

We are now in Ushuaia, which is a port city located along the Begal Channel, and is jumping off point for trips to Antarctica. The excursions are a little out of our price range, but we are definetly putting it on our list of future destinations.

Ushuaia is definetly a port town. And although it is a lot bigger than any of the Alaskan port towns we have been to, it is definetly reminisent of the ones we have been to. There are Princess Cruise ships in the harbour, and the mountains seem to jut up out of the ocean. The types and look of the mountains remind us of the Yukon and Alaska.

Our plan is to head out on a three to four day trek tomorrow. We have opted out of the longer one we had planned on doing as their are reports of it being very wet, soggy and marshy. (Chris doesn´t want to get his feet wet, and dampen his mood) We will be back in Ushuaia for a day or two and have booked a bus North on the 10th to Puerto Madryn.

As undesirable as it is, we are going to join the hordes of Cruise Ship passengers and do a little window shopping, and possibly buy a souviner or two from the End of the World.