THE END OF THE WORLD !

Here we are at last. This evening it still felt a bit unbelievable as we wandered along beside the Beagle Channel looking at the shipping against a glorious background of pointy, snowy splodged mountains. This, of course, is Ushuaia. Southernmost city of Argentina and of anywhere.

We arrived Friday night after 14 hours on the bus, with 4 sets of boundaries and passport checks, with all the queueing and bureaucracy, as we passed from Arg. into Chile, and then back again. This was punctuated by an exciting, though short, ferry crossing as we went across the Straits of Magellan to the island of Tierra del Fuego.


Arriving at 10.30 pm when we had thought it would be 6.00, with no accommodation sorted, we made straight up into town (and up means up steep hills) dragging our trolleys, to a house suggested in my out-of-date guidebook, to find it closed down. So we finished up in a hostel dorm with a couple of strange blokes (don't know what they thought of our invasion).
But alls well that ends well and next morning we found this nice little B&B, which is very friendly as well as cheap and comfortable. Sue will now continue the story....

Actually the little house is a hippie house with joss sticks and a laid back feeling. So its good. Today Ros and I went on a 8k.walk through tierra del fuego national park. This was pretty ardous for me as it was through a beech forest, up and down. Have you ever tried to negotiate beech tree roots,wearing new varifocals.

Crazy,I am completely knackered,needless to say ros is as fresh as a daisy and we even had to take a walk this evening. Anyway, despite all the keep fit, I am so glad to be here.It beats housework anyday. However we saw some great birds of prey, and the forest felt very primevil, very Tolkein. Tomorrow apparently we are visiting an old penal colony, variety being the spice of life and who knows what else so i am off to bed.xx