Ushuaia

Ushuaia

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February 10th 2007

Published: February 17th 2007

Ross: This place is pretty cool, the “city” nestles at the foot of the mountains in a natural bay of the Beagle Channel. It's quite picturesque. We got settled into our hostel, Alba's house, this place was great a bit quiet but cosy and kind of homely, super comfy beds and probably the best included breakfast we've had scince arriving in Argentina (Argentine's don't really seem to go in for t... Read Full Entry

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views of the beagle channel 10

views of the beagle channel 11

views of the beagle channel 12

views of the beagle channel 13

views of the beagle channel 14

penguins dancing!

woooo! i know, im sad...

shop window

in ushuaia the people who ran shops were seriously weird. they had penguin heads on mannequins and went a bit far with the posing. it freaked me out a bit...

Canoeing on Lago Roca 1

Canoeing on Lago Roca 2

national park tierra del fuego

our guide all but made us take these photos telling us they were really famous and pushing us over to the signs.

national park tierra del fuego 2

national park tierra del fuego 3

in the front of the picture is the symbol of the national park and the mountain in the background is part argentina, part chile. argentina runs as far as the tree line and from there on up its chile.

national park tierra del fuego 4

a knot in a tree caused by the 'indian bread' fungus the natives used to eat.

national park tierra del fuego 5

national park tierra del fuego 6

our guide told us this tree looked like an octopus. i guess you dont get many octopii down here...

national park tierra del fuego 7

the park was ridiculously pretty

national park tierra del fuego 8

ross really liked these purple mushrooms. our guide did too and told us she had never seen any in 3 years of duiding in the park. she also told us that spiders, a tree disease we saw and a mollusc shell had never been found here before so i think she mainly led walks round the park with her eyes shut. either that or we brought more strange things than just the sunshine to ushuaia

Pretty coastline

More pretty coastline

The spongey water bed ground was round the bay just before you got in the trees.

Even more pretty coastline

Even more pretty coastline again

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