We headed off for a couple of long days drive from Torres del Paine, heading south towards the Magellan Straits on our journey to Ushuaia right at the bottom on Argentina sitting on the Beagle Canal. We bush camped on the southern side of the straits which were crossed in 20 minutes with a simple drive on drive off ferry. We had another long day driving as we crossed the border from Chile into Argentina to get to Ushuaia and the Tierra del Fuego region. The region is full of forested, but snow topped mountains and the drive was pretty smooth until we got held in a traffic queue due to protesters blocking the road.
Ushuaia is known as 'the end of the world' and is quite a touristy town due to the amount of cruises on the Beagle canal and also to Antarctica from here. I wasn't interested in the Beagle cruise as it's been pretty cold here and the thought of sitting on a boat for 4 hours looking for sea birds and sea lions wasn't really taking my fancy. Most of the group did the cruise though and really raved about it. I've spent my 2 days here just mooching and munching around the town. The weather's not been fantastic but good considering where we are in the world. I've been pretty happy doing not a great deal and chilling out. You can't do something everyday!
Next we are heading north (for the meantime), stopping for a couple of bushcamps, one of which in Chile before heading to the Lake District region of Argentina and hopefully some fractionally warmer weather! Mikkel is headed to colder weather though as he has left the group for a couple of weeks after finding a "cheapie" trip to Antarctica last minute. We are all very jealous!!
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