Ushuaia and around

Flew into Ushuaia the “southernmost city in the world” in preparation for the departure on our Antarctic cruise. We had lined up AirBnB again, and Maaike had certainly done some good research here, finding a keen hiker (and co-incidentally Dutch). Jack – he was awesome, taking us on a hike that same afternoon!. I must admit, while I had dressed fairly appropriately, I think I may need to invest in some better gloves.. mind just aren’t up to the job. There was an amount of bush-bashing, and, while the weather did clear when we got to the top (enough to take pictures).. when the wind got up on the way back down again, I was a little bit cold!! Keen to be better prepared next time.

Technically, we didn’t go walking with Jack, or at least, he went walking with his dogs and we went along too… definitely not guiding (here be regulations ;)

Still, a lovely introduction to Ushuaia, Jack really was the perfect perfect host for us. Furnishing us with lots of information, decent internet ;). The next day, or maybe the day after, he dropped us off to the start of another hike, and we did this quite nice ~5 hour hike up to Lag de los tempranos. Which sounds to me like “lake of in time” .. or something like that. My Spanish is still awful, something I want to partially correct on the cruise, given time.

Anyway, it was a lovely little walk (kml file)

The linked KML file above is not beautifully accurate, as I wanted not to use all the batteries all at once! however, it’s enough to get you started.

So yes, great walk, great host. Other than that, didn’t spend that much time in Ushuaia proper this time, when we’re back from the cruise there’ll be time for that.

Oh, did make a few timelapses with the pi – I thought this one came out ok :)