Cloudy, sleeting, howling wind on my arrival into Ushuaia. Caught a ‘sight seeing bus’ around town. A brief history of the township (pop 80,000): The Selk’nam Indians also called the Ona, first arrived in Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) about 10,000 … Continue reading →

The wind is harsh and biting – on the road from El Calafate to El Chaltén, I had to dig out my buff and beanie from suitcase on the way, to be able to jump out of the car and … Continue reading →

A day of bumming around town….. The history of El Calafate began in the first decades of the twentieth century. Originally, it was simply a sheltering place for wool traders. The town was officially founded in 1927 by the Argentinian government to … Continue reading →