Ushuaia

the end of the world but only the beginning

21.03.2009 - 25.03.2009 12 °C
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We arrived in Ushuaia in the afternoon, after driving through a rapidly changing landscape, the arid windswept plains turned to lush conifer forests and amazing lakes. We took a tour of the Beagle Channel where were saw sea lions and lots of ocean birds as well as a short glimpse of a few dolphins.

We opted out of the Tierra del Fuego hike, and chose instead to chill out and catch up on some much needed rest. We went out for dinner with some of the crew at a place called Estancia, another of the many parillas in Argentina, it was here ate the best steak I have eve eaten.... no words can describe, but if you are ever in Ushuaia I recommend a visit to Estancia for the lomo filet.

The next two days were much the same, just enjoying being at the very southern tip of the world, only a stones throw away from Antarctica. On the final night of the tour we went out of town to another parilla for our final dinner as a group, all was well and the food was fine, however Philip had bumped into a girl at the restaurant who was from Limavady, and knew all of his nieces, she was a little over familiar and we were glad to be heading back into town for a drink away from her. We had been mistaken, she arrived in the next taxi and like a leech to fresh blood, she had attached to us and our new friends. Lets just say that the rest of the evening turned to trash, involving her being thrown into a cab to have her head stitched up after falling over, onto a table and then a chair. As you can imagine we decided we would have a quiet dinner and early night the following night.

Our tour was over.... we were completely knackered... had travelled 5000km over rough road, in three weeks....