Ushuaia, Argentina – At the End of the World
Last week there was some excitement. We saw a bunch of penguins at the End of the World, Ushuaia, Argentina and I placed in the top 3 for the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest! Keeping the excitement rolling, let’s see what the most southernly city in the world looked like.
Welcome to the End of the World, Ushaiua, Argentina.
There’s the town of Ushuaia – with Antarctica in the distance! 😉
We hiked up to Glaciar Martial.
No going on the glacier without proper training and equipment.
Looking at this picture, it looks like this hike would have taken all day. It wasn’t that hard and seems like we spent a leisurely half day hiking to get this view.
I don’t know the name of this plant, but I think it looks awesome.
It was just beautiful.
I’m sorry I don’t know the name.
I could have put just one picture in –
– but I liked them all so much.
I don’t know the name of this plant either, but it sure looked hardy.
What I loved most about this tandem bike set up was the stick. They attached that stick somewhere on their bike just to prop it up.
Look at the glass in the tower of that window.
We didn’t go, but this restaurant was supposed to have amazing crab.
Expressive mural depicting the first inhabitants to the area.
We went to the Thematic Gallery which had life like statues and we could step into the scenes and role play.
That’s me next to what the very first inhabitants of the area used to dress like for special ceremonies.
Tiff canoeing.
I take steering a ship very seriously.
Me being very sad to be locked up like a prisoner.
Tiff hanging out with Ernest Shackelton. How cool was that!?
And finally, I was working down at the docks in the classic yellow jacket next to a king penguin.
Chris also takes steering a ship very seriously. Although he is not looking forward at the rocks he was about to hit!
He also posed for way less pictures.
Ushuaia was a neat place to walk around and see all the ships leaving for Antarctica.
For whatever reason birds flocked to this half sunken ship.
It made for quite an attraction to simply stand and watch the hundreds of birds fussing about this old ship.
We saw a beaver walking around town. Beavers are an invasive species to the area and are causing a lot of havic to the natural ecosystems. We hitched a ride with a Chilean biologist who was working in the national park trying to determine the best course of actions to deal with all the beavers. None the less, it was pretty funny to see this beaver walking around the streets.
We also sat on the tiniest bench ever.
Although I don’t know if I look as small as Chris.
Ushuaia would be an interesting place to spend a year and see all the seasons. We enjoyed our time hanging out at the End of the World and I can’t wait till we can go back and be one of the people getting on the boats to go to Antarctica!
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If you go:
We stayed at Camping La Pista del Andino and it was great. Lodging is expensive in Argentina and if you are set up to camp, you will save a lot. We usually walked into town from the campground (all down hill!) and as it started to get dark, took a taxi (all up hill!) back to the campground. Even paying for the taxi, it was way cheaper to stay at the campground than any of the hostels in town.
Camping for 2 ppl ~$120 ARS – $15 USD
Taxi ~ $32 ARS each time – $3.75 USD
Thematic Museum $160 ARS – $19 USD
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Aside the dubious honor of being the end of the world Ushuaia looks to be a more than interesting place! The Thematic Gallery must have been all sorts of fun! Why were you and Chris always wearing headphones?
The museum had headphones in a handful of languages so we had a self guided walking tour of the museum. The Thematic Gallery was really good. The replications were spot on.
Fab images Tiffany! Looks quite brisk down there, as to be expected.
Tweeting soon. Thanks so much for sharing.
Ryan
Hi Ryan, Thanks so much. Ushuaia was awesome and it was brisk down there. I remember riding in on a bus from someplace warm and watching the snow line getting lower and lower down the mountain sides as we got closer to Ushuaia. We bought one more sleeping bag and from then on had cozy nights and an awesome time.
Great post Tiff, as usual the photography is wonderful. Six pictures was just fine for that plant, it was an interesting plant.
Pop
Thanks, well I went back and forth, back on forth on those plant pics, and as I see we both agree, it was just so neat I sure didn’t mind looking at it a couple of times. There was so awesome plant life down there. Glad you enjoyed. Thanks! 🙂
I agree with Rick, gorgeous photos and I love Tiffs hat! It was interesting to read that beavers are a menace in other parts of the world, can we be sure that Chris isn’t inside that beaver costume? This was another amazing trek for vagabond way viewers!:) Thanks Tiff and Chris!
Thanks Christine. Beavers are a menace there because they are introduced so they are altering things differently than a place they are endemic to. I must say tho, it was one of the best beaver costumes I have ever seen and I secretly wished I could have been that person for a while to shake that beaver tail around town! 😉
Once again an exceptional piece. As someone who will never have the opportunity to travel as do you and Chris I am living the life through your reports. This is a great opportunity for me and I certainly do appreciate the top notch quality of your travel reports. Thanks again for the great work that both of you do.
Stay Safe!
Thanks Brian. We have a lot of fun taking all these photos. So glad you are able to journey with us to these places – that is about the best compliment a photographic – story teller – writer could hope for! On wards for both us for the adventuring.
Hi, About those flowers, until you find out what they really are called I think they look
like “Polish Shamrocks” they make me smile and think of family.
Nice going. I do love your posts
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Oh wow, I will have to look up Polish shamrocks and see what I can find. I cannot wait to go to Poland – there is so much history there. Thanks for the comment and glad you enjoy the posts! 🙂
not gonna leave any of the comments I have in my mind might get into trouble love the pictures the green plants look like where is waldo
Haha, thanks for the self control Debbie! I love these plants had you think of where’s waldo. Great reference.
Nice pictures Tiff. I wish Chris was just as much as a poser tooo. Bit then again you would probably have way too many photos to chose from.It must have been so neat to look off the coast of Agtentina and know that you are not looking at a different country but a whole other continent. I had mo idea Anartica was so close. Great work and nice job on snagging third place.
Hmm….oh dear I think I may have led dear readers astray. The winking smiley face meant I was being sarcastic. Yes, Antarctica is off yonder from Ushuaia, but it’s waaaaaaaaaay off yonder.
I will simply take this to mean that everyone has wonderful imaginations. Sorry for any confusion – don’t worry, some day we will get to Antarctica and take lots of photos of the Drake Passage. 🙂