Ushuaia, is the bottom of the world.  It´s the southernmost city in the world (we have the passport stamp to prove it), although there is a small military town of 2k people called Port William just over the border in Chile.  To get here we had to cross the border again, as Ushuaia is in Argentina, as well as crossing a channel on a boat, as the bottom part of the country is not linked by land. 

Ushuaia is a small city of about 50k people, though really geared up for tourism, and as it´s so remote is a bit more expensive than the rest of the country.  Also, being spring time and so far south it gets pretty cold, and is surrounded by snow capped peaks.

On our first full day here, we took a catamaran trip down the Beagle Channel (named after the British ship that discovered the channel) to see colonies of sea lions and cormorants.  They also have penguins this time of year, but we were advised the boat trip doesn´t get too close, so we decided to wait to see them in Puerto Madryn instead.  As the only English people on the boat, we had our own enthusiastic guide, so got to hear all about the British discovering the channel and how ships used to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific around there before the Panama Canal.

The next day we went to Parque National Tierra del Fuego on a tour, which was a bit disappointing but we felt we had to go to the southernmost national park in the world.  The main highlights were a short train ride, billed as the southernmost train ride in the world (yeah, they do milk it a bit, and there are only so many southernmost things in the world you can do before getting bored (the southernmost Irish pub was testament to this, and not at all Irish for that matter)), a peat bog (apparently they´re rare here), and a couple of short hikes.

The next day we embarked on a 32 hour bus journey, another boat ride across the channel and four more border crossings (leaving Argentina, entering Chile, leaving Chile, entering Argentina), which now means the fourth time we have entered Argentina in about as many weeks. 

Ushuaia was short and sweet, and although there´s not much to see or do down here, it´s a nice little town and does feel like you´re at the bottom of the world, as you´re only 1k kilometres from the Antarctic.

Oh yeah, and 32 hours on four different buses, a boat and numerous border crossings is not fun, especially when they play awful, Argentinian love songs over and over again!