Sunday, Lazy Day
Sunday, October 5th, 2008Day 191
I woke up on the top bunk above Jordana in our dorm room and glanced out the top of the window. It had even snowed more over night, a beautiful dusting of snow covered Ushuaia on a quiet Sunday morning. From our room we had an incredible view over the town sloping down to the Beagle Channel. I walked to the right, at the end of the balcony and glanced back behind the hostal. What a sight, towering rocky mountains covered in snow surrounded us. It truly gave the feel of being at the end of the earths land mass.
We shared a room with Sheamus and Natasha, the two travellers we had met on the bus. After a shared breakfast at the hostal the 4 of us headed out to explore Ushuaia. It´s a pretty town wedged between the mountains and the Beagle Channel. Even if this wasn´t the so called “end of the world” I would assume it would be a tourist attraction on its own merits. Being a traveller on a Sunday in Latin America isn´t such a great thing, everything is closed. We stopped at an internet cafe to call home. Jordana, Seamus and Natasha spent some time on the internet and I watched the Chelsea/Aston Villa match while enjoying a tasty espresso. Nobody said life was tough at the end of the world.
Really not much else to write about on a lazy Sunday in Ushuaia. We spent sometime at the Museum, an ex prison. Which was an interesting collection of information on the history of Tierra del Fuego and the explorers that have passed through these parts. Also some interesting parts on Antartica, the real most southernly part of the world. After some coffee and searhing for food we decided on returning to the hostal to make lunch. For dinner we went to a Tienda Libre, the Argentine version of an all you can eat buffet. It was OK, some decent Chinese food but really it was about all you can expect from an all you can eat, quantity not quality.
So that’s it, our first very unexciting but relaxing day in Ushuaia. I’m looking forward to getting out of the city and getting into some more adventurous activity’s, although Chinese food in Argentina is quite an adventure. Stay tuned.
Michael Coroneos