Day 11 - El Fin Del Mundo

Ushuaia

We have five days until our cruise leaves, which is heaps of time in a small town like Ushuaia but the problem is that the weather is great at the moment but a change is coming, so we need to get moving and use the next couple of days for sightseeing before the weather changes on us. First order of business was to pay a deposit on the cruise, after which we rushed off to rent a car for the next two days to see the sights of Tierra del Fuego.

First trip is to the lakes area east of town, impossible to get lost as there's only one road in one road out - we are at El Fin Del Mundo (the end of the world) after all. We drove out of Ushuaia, up over the Andes via the Garibaldi Pass and down the other side. 

We eventually arrived at a small town of Tolhuin at the end of Lake Fagnano. The town itself didn't seem to offer much, so we kept driving through town to the lake's edge, and we ended up by chance at Hosteria Kaiken situated just on the shore of the lake. We sat in the restaurant while admiring the view and munching on empanadas, then went and sat outside for a while to enjoy the sun, before heading back into town.

Nice spot for lunch!

The towns around here seem to have a Swiss feel about them, not because of the landscape. more to do with the designs of the buildings, with the sloping A frame roofs for the snow and the wooden shuttered windows.