22.12.10

Ushuaia a.k.a "the end of the world"

After the Perito Moreno and El Calafate, we flew to Ushuaia, the southernmost city IN THE WORLD! As you can imagine, we are kind of missing Cartagena's tropical climate, as the average temperature in the summer here is 9ºC. Claire is very happy she actually bought this super warm red jacket in Bogota now!
Here we visited the prison built by the Argentine government to increase the Argentine population here and to ensure Argentine sovereignty over Tierra del Fuego (over Chile). The prison population kind of became forced colonists and spent most of their time building the town with timber from the forest around the prison. They also built a railway, which is known as the Tren del Fin del Mundo, of course the southernmost railway in the world! ... and a very touristy thing to do ;-) which we of course did!
We also took a boat to sail on the Beagle Channel which is a huge Channel where Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet. It is really huge: 240 km long and about 5 kilometres wide at its narrowest point - From the boat we we able to see an island with sea lions and and another one with penguins! It was really awesome, especially since the boat was almost empty.
In a few hours we will be flying to Buenos Aires for Christmas and we will also be there for Alex's 30th B-DAY on the 26th... lots of exciting moments coming up :-)


Perito Moreno
End of Road Nunmber 3...which means the end of the world...at least by car!
Sea Lions chillin...
Faro (Lighthouse) del fin del Mundo

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