The view over Ushuaia

The long way down

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December 19th 2008
The long way down is pretty apt. We needed to get down to Ushuaia, which is at the very end tip of Argentina, to catch the Antarctica cruise we’d booked. We’d read that it could be difficult to get buses down, so we gave ourselves plenty of time to make it but the journey was still pretty arduous, involving two overnight 19 hour journeys and another all day bus ride! The first overnighter g ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more