After Buenos Aires, we went to the beach side town of Mar del Plata. On the taxi ride to the bus station in Buenos Aires we encountered fake money for the first time in South America. Damn taxi driver did the swifty on us by giving fake notes as change. Luckily it wasn't much, and it is now making a nice souvenir in my journal. Mar del Plata Mar del Plata is one of the major fishing ports and the biggest seaside beach resort in Argentina and is a 5 hour bus ride south of Buenos Aires. We found the town [View Full Entry]

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Cesta byla dlouhaaaaaaaaaaaa,misty mokraaaaaa.........ale jsme tu! 36-ti hodinovy presun z Buenos Aires do mesta Rio Gallegos a pak dale dalsich 12nact hodin na jih az na ten uplny konec, "Fin del Mundo - End of the World" to je tak jak Argentinci nazyvaji mesto Ushuaia. Je to mestecko, tedy spise mesto (45 tisic obyvatel), ktere jeste pred dvemi desetiletimi byla vesnice. Ale ta lokace!!! Ledovcove vrcholky se tyci kolem do vysek az 1500 metru. Ushuaia byla puvodne zalozena jako trestanecka kolonie. Argentina sem zavirala notoricke kriminalniky a politicke vezne do roku 1947, kdy se Ushuaia s [View Full Entry]

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Heading out of Puerto Natales I jumped on a bus headed to Ushuaia, the "southern most" city in the world (Depending on what you define as a city). On a quick bus change I ran into to Tim, a Swiss guy I met in Torres Del Paine and we quickly got to sharing our adventures stories. The landscape this far south resembles that what I imagine Alaska might at such an latitude to the north; barren, wind blown and cold. A few hours into the ride we boarded a boat to transfer us over the Straight of Magellan. Accompanied by both [View Full Entry]

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Nick here - Rin and I have been chomping at the bit to get down to the end of south america before the weather gets too cold. We took a flight from shorts and t-shirt weather to 55 degrees south and about 20 degrees celicius colder to Ushuaia in Argentina. Ushuaia has successfully marketed itself to all the passing tour boats as the end of the world. So much so that you can now get off the cruise ship, walk across the road to the information office and present your passport and receive a stamp and a certificate that you have [View Full Entry]

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Met een tussenstop in Rio Gallegos komen we in Ushuaia toe. De bijnaam van de stad is Het einde van de wereld. Het grijze wolkendek dat we er aantreffen past perfect bij een het-einde-van-de-wereld-sfeer. Ushuaia is natuurlijk niet echt het einde van de wereld. Het is wel de meest zuidelijk gelegen stad op aarde. Het is ook de plaats waar de mens (volgens een redelijk algemeen aanvaarde theorie) het verst is gekomen in z’n kolonisatie van de wereld (de theorie = ontstaan in Afrika, door Azië getrokken, via de Beringzee in Noord-Amerika beland en dan afgezakt). Ushuaia is geen bij [View Full Entry]

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After a 3030km drive from Beunos Aires we arrived in Ushuaia, the end of the world. Yes i've been here before 2 months ago, last time I flew from BA to here and it took 3 1/2 hrs, this time i went overland which took 7 days. it was 7 days of very long and boring drives, with the flatest land i every seen with nothing for 100s of miles, no town, no petrol staion, no trees or plants, nothing, but electricty poles and one straight flat road. So on the truck I slept lots, read lots and ended up playing [View Full Entry]

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Well I have run out of road, currently in the southern most township in the world. Surprizingly i don´t want my bike touring life to end. A little back tracking... I volonteered for a week in a new national park in Chile. Use volonteers pulled fence posts, picked seeds and help restore a wetland area over the pirod of a week. The forgein investments in this park is largely inpart due to the Patagonia clothing company. I was happy to be taking down cow fences, for these animals are quite distructive of the natural environment, shitting in rivers and displacing other [View Full Entry]

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So after last nights merryment i did not fall out of my bunk till 10.35 am and my mouth felt like tarmac and my head was up my ass, i got together some stuff and put it in to wash before i head to Chile tomorrow, i had first shave in a moth and feel like a new man......lol. I then took a wander down the harbour and booked myself a boat trip in the bay to see the local marine life such as penguins and i head off to that at 3pm and it cost 115 pesos which is about [View Full Entry]

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The drive down from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia was a long one. We travelled for two days and then stopped off in a seaside resort called Puerto Madyrn. From there we went to the Valdes Peninsula for the day and saw sea lions, southern elephant seals and penguins! Our guide was really informative and so I learnt a lot about the marine environment and the animals. Unfortunately we didnt get up close to the animals, they were on protected beaches so we could only look from a distance but was cool to see them anyway. It was a beautiful hot day [View Full Entry]

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So i eventually managed to drift off at gone 11pm last night and apart from briefly waking up during the night virtually alept through till 8.40 am so i may eventually catch my sleep up. I decided that today was the day i would go to Tierra Del fuego, but i wanted to make sure my passage out of Ushuaia was booked as some places can booked out and then you have to wait days and i do not want to stay here longer than i need to as i have other places to see, Lonely planet says hostel dorms are [View Full Entry]

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