Ushuaia Travel Blogs

I was beginning to wonder if I will ever bump into any other Filipino on my third day here in Fin Del Mundo - Ushuaia, Argentina. Again, the Filipino diaspora was not to disappoint. On my way to kill about 2.5 hours before we board the MS Clipper Adventure, I wandered along the main street in&nb…

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN USHUAIA!!!We did not do much here. we disembarked at 8am. I woke up at 7am to take photos of our arrival. What a week makes. It was very cloudy and cold last week. when we arrived it was sunny, somewhat clear, about 70 degrees. Unfortunately, the coffee shops were not open. …

One big adventure I'm looking forward to! Once the booking process starts, every trip is getting closer and more real. Many thanks to innotech(Mike) who gave me his agent name to book my Antarctica cruise and to all travbuddies for taking the time to detail their Patagonia trips!(kramerdude especially)

After the late night last night of pool, poker, and pub, I slept in this morning until nearly 11am! Rustling around in my things, I discovered a couple of bummers. Looking at my calendar, I sadly realized that it was LAST night I was supposed to meet David and Eileen at the Dublin Irish Pub.…

Pre-Antartica Trip Trauma - Did we miss the boat?   A week before we were due to start our trip to Antartica we realised that we had still not heard from GAP (who we were going to be travelling with) as to whether all of our warm ski gear, that my Mum kindly sent to their office back in…

On Thursday the Drake Passage was quite OK again to the point where an engine room tour was organised. You could really tell the people working there were proud of their work, because everything was very clean. The rest of the day I spent sorting out my photos, making sure to type everything in bef…

We had a cold but lovely day cruising Beagle Channel. Summerseason: At breakfast we had some snow..... should have taken a photo :-)

Today we slung on the boots and packs and walked from Ush into the mountains behind the city. We climbed up through gorgeous alpine forests until we reached the snow. Great views over Ush and the Beagle Channel. From here we continued up onto the snowy moutain to view a glacier, which we never real…

Date: 04-02-07 Puerto Maritimo, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina Wind         Var   39 new seamen step on board, after long journeys from several continents When everybody is onboard Captain Rob gives a welcoming speech followed by a toast with Beer…

The question that most people have about travelling to Ushuaia is simple: "Is it worth it?" It's a question that I've asked myself pretty often over the last month or so and the answer has always been "Yes - just shut up and do it Salad." This answer has little to do with my old fr…

We arrived in Ushuaia early afternoon an had the next day free before we boarded the MS Explorer headed for Antartica. So me and two fellow travelers decided that we go the next day for a hike in Tierra del fuego. The next day we got a cab into ten national park and got dropt of at the …

It was a long and hard slog getting to the Southern most city in the world. We suffered for more than 30 hours making our way to Ushuaia on one excessively long, cold and uncomfortable journey. We travelled on a regular bus that was far inferior to every other bus in the entire country. But we made…

From Buenos Aires it was a 3.5 hour flight to Ushuaia. This is the southernmost city of the south American continent and the world! We did not get to see the town other than the drive between the airport to the port, ince our main goal is to board our waiting ship, the M. S. Caledonian Star operate…

Once during the night I awoke in the dark to see us lying off the lights of a town. Later, I was awakened by the sounds of a tug maneuvering us so I got up and closed the balcony door. When the alarm went off we were moored at the dock in Ushuaia. We had breakfast in the Horizon Court and I checked…

Couldn´t possibly travel any further South in Argentina, I made it to the end of the world and all by bus! I have no idea of the distance from here to Quito, its a long way! The border crossings to get to Ushuaia were rather tiresome, I was trying to sleep in between and kept getting woken up to h…