Day 10 - Arrived at the End of the World

Buenos Aires to Ushuaia

An early start today for our four hour flight to Ushuaia, a noticeable difference to our other journeys on this trip was that everyone was carrying warm clothes and parkas - goodbye 30 degrees, hello 9.

We arrived into Ushuaia and were amazed and excited, now we feel like we are on a proper holiday, we are seeing things we truly have never seen before (sorry Punta del Este but we've seen beaches and resort towns before). Ushuaia has amazing mountains with snow still on them when it is summer, the clean crisp air of southern Tasmania and the feeling that only The End of the World can give you.

Ushuaia and Beagle Bay from near our apartment

We caught a taxi to our accommodation to find that no one was at home, after waiting for a while they arrived, they had been waiting at the airport for us, even though they didn't know which flight we were on. We do need to keep an eye out for that small town hospitality as we have been caught like that before.

We headed into town to explore on a glorious day, who said it was cold down here on the edge of the end of the world? We had a vague idea that we would like to take a cruise out to Antarctica but we had looked at the prices and they seemed a little steep, so our plan was to wait until we arrived here to see if we what was available. All the agencies were advertising last minute deals, we visited a few and walked into one to explain our situation. As it turns out, the agent was able to give us a price on one cruise in euro that was much better than the advertised $US price - in fact a saving of about US$1000 in total. It also left in a few days (meaning we just had to stay an extra night), it was twin share with a private bathroom, and was heading as far south as the polar circle. We went away to discuss over a coffee, and pretty quickly decided to go for it ... we'll never be back here again! 

After signing up for the cruise we went and did some shopping for dinner ... we'll have to get used to it as we don't think we'll be eating in restaurants very much from now on.......