Scraping the barrel

As you can see, the town wasnt full of photo opportunities... or people, or sun, but it was good to say we´ve been to the ´end of the world´. These penguins worried us slightly...do they normally have breasts?

Ushuaia, the bottom of the world.

May 27th 2006
We orginally planned to leave El Calafate the day after visiting the Glacier, take a day bus east to Rio Gallegos (atlantic coast..ish) and then a nightbus for the 12hour trip south to Ushuaia. However, as is always the case, the best laid plans don´t work out. There was no nightbus. The alternative was to take a bus to Rio Gallegos as originally planned and then jump on a plane from there to ... 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

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