TO THE END OF THE ROAD...AND BACK AGAIN

Ushuaia makes the most of its geographic position of being the most southerly city in the world. It is home to the "End of the World Museum", "The Most Southerly Train in the World", and according to one restarurant, " The most Southerly Pizza house in the World"!

We spent our days touring the Beagle channel, dotted with little islands smothered in Cormants and Sea Lions sunning themselves.


Ushuaia is unlike any other South American city we have visited. It began as a penal colony in the late 19th century and the town grew in a haphazard way. Without exception every city and town square is surrounded by a cathedral, civic buildings; the town has a heart. In Usuhaia it had a prison. One could imagine the isolation from the rest of the world when the first prisoners stepped off the boat to spend the rest of their days hear. Ushuaia still has that sense of remoteness despite the cruise ships moored in the harbour and internet cafes dotted along the high street shouldered by numersous shops packed full of tourist fodder.



During our stay we spent a morning in the Lapataia National Park. This train is a part of the restored original line that used to take prisoners the the logging camps in the foresest in the park...albeit not in such luxury.


The end of the road. This is the furthest south one can travel by road in the Americas. Head north 17,848 km from this point and you reach the other end in Alaska! We felt we reached a milestone, literally, when we arrived here. The only way to head now on this leg of our trip was north...beaches here we come!