Patagonia Trip Recap - Ushuaia

As I stated in the general post, after a long day of travel, we landed in Ushuaia.  The southernmost city in Argentina.   A small port city with lots of charm.  We arrived on a Thursday evening and would be boarding our cruise Saturday evening, so we figured in order to make the best of our days in Ushuaia we’d be better off renting a car.

This proved to be a wise move because it gave us more freedom to explore the surroundings.  We were able to check out Tierra Del Fuego National Park and we were also able to do a glacier hike which would have been harder to do if we didn’t have transportation.   The park and glacier hike proved to be a good taste of what we were getting ourselves into.  The scenery was fantastic and the hike to the glacier hike was challenging enough to scare us into thinking we wouldn’t be able to complete our hikes in the time we had allotted.  The weather was cool which made it perfect for all the hiking, we even got some snow as we got to the top of the glacier hike, but it never was uncomfortable.  It really was ideal conditions.  Ushuaia also has an old prison which they have turned into a museum.  It’s both a maritime museum and a historical museum about the prison, it was an interesting way to pass some time, while we waited to board the cruise on saturday.

We stayed at Hotel Austral, which I’d definitely recommend, it was reasonably priced and located very close to the main street where we found some great restaurants, bars and shops.

Where we ate in Ushuaia:

Casa de los Mariscos

Cafe Bar Bananas

Parrilla La Estancia - YouTube

Moustachchio’s

Dublin Irish Pub

Galway Irish Pub

Patagonia 2011

It’s already been a week since I’ve returned from my trip to Patagonia.  It was an incredible experience.  Everywhere we turned there was beautiful scenery to take in.  I went with 3 other friends and had a great time.  I think I’ll try to do some more detailed posts about the trip in the future, but just wanted to get a general post out there before too much time goes by. 

 

The trip started in Chicago we flew to Ushuaia, Argentina’s southernmost city via Miami and Buenos Aires.  That made for a long travel day, but well worth it.  In Ushuaia we boarded a ship that took us to Punta Arenas, Chile.   Spent a few days in Chile’s Torres Del Paine before returning to Argentina – El Calafate and El Chalten.  We ended the trip in Buenos Aires before we returned home.  Hopefully I’ll be able to updated a little bit about all those places soon.

I did try to keep a Tumblr blog going as we traveled – obviously I could only update when in a wifi area and since we didn’t have computers to upload our pictures I could only use pictures from my iphone.  but if you want a sneak peak of the trip head over to 180Southbound.