Ushuaia aka The End Of The World

Ushuaia and the Beagle Channel
Originally uploaded by louise_parmenter.

So I´m now officially on the road with my home on my back! The beginning of a long journey! And where best to start than The End of the World? Having left the Island of Tierra del Fuego, the Beagle Channel and the Straits of Magallanes I can share these photos with you. I was a little disappointed with Ushuaia and Tierra del Fuego: its over-marketed status as the Fin del Mundo and its remoteness made it extremely expensive, very touristy and quite an anticlimax. I spent an afternoon walking up to a viewpoint over the town and Beagle Channel and another day at the Tierra del Fuego National Park and decided to leave alter that. It was attractive, don´t get me wrong, but perhaps not worth the long and complicated journey. My experience would most likely have been a more exciting one had I taken one of the many boat trips, ranging from a 4 hour trip to a nearby island to a week long cruise to the Antarctic, non of which I wanted to take, given that I´ll be on a cruise of the Chilean fjords from this Thursday! I think for me the highlight, albeit a very shortlived one, was seeing a couple of porpoises on the 15minute crossing over the narrowest part of the Straits of Magallanes!


SUMMARY OF KM COVERED IN LATIN AMERICA SO FAR:
57,000km = air travel
12,000km = by car, bus or boat