Ushuaia

The following morning, we woke up arriving into Ushuaia, Argentina, ’the southernmost city in the world’. It had a great atmosphere for such a remote place, it was a really bustling and vibrant place to visit. We visited the Tierra del Fuego National Park just outside the city to see the beautiful scenery of snow-capped mountains and lakes set under autumnal conditions which were starting to redden the beech vegetation. We had a great guide who was a local taxi driver but was very knowledgeable about the geology and flora and fauna, and spoke great English!

In the town is a memorial to the ‘British War’ as well as the remains of a gunnery point from when Argentina had a conflict with Chile over another island…

Late afternoon we set sail along the Beagle Channel, getting up close to a couple of glaciers as dusk fell. It was certainly getting a touch cooler that what we’d been use to, to date!Leggi altro