Justine and Dylan’s Travel Blog

Or so you´re reminded on just about any street corner, billboard, t-shirt, mug, souvenir and other otherwise blank surface. If it doesn´t say End of World or Fin del Mundo, then invariably it will be something like “Southern-most <insert product trying to sell to tourists>”. I´m thinking one last spot they could remind tourists is on toilet paper, perhaps with a slogan like “Ushuaia: the arse-end of the world”.

Anyway, with a climate to match (wearing winter jackets in summer is always interesting), you have to admit you do feel like you´re running out of mainland a little bit. With a harbour full of boats about to head off to Antarctica and a chain of mountains inland with snow on them at what I would guess be about 400m altitude (remember how it´s summer), it does give you the impression you´re in an interesting location.

We did a quick day trip to Tierra del Fuego National Park, which was nice, but a little overrated and had a few too many billboards (with “southern most… or end of…” bits). I´m guessing most places are going to struggle to impress me now I´ve been to Patagonia though.

Anyway, the highlight was probably us checking into a B&B for a few days and having a few the sleep-ins to help us recover from our recent hikes (think: our own bathroom, a double bed, a heater, powerpoints everywhere… all the mod cons we´d come to miss a little bit while camping or staying in hostels).

Unfortunately, the End of the World was also the end of our stay on the Dragoman truck after 7 weeks (all the way from Cusco to Ushuaia). We´ll defn miss all the friends we made on the truck and the whole “always something happening” atmosphere. Fortunately we´ve still got a few more adventures to look forward to, so I imagine we´ll cope. Over a few glasses of red wine. And perhaps a nice steak. Hmmm… steak.