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Day
7 (October 26, 2019) Canal Beagle
Before
This is an entire day to spend on Ushuaia
attractions. We
would mainly do the cruise through Canal Beagle and the Train of the
End of the World, if we didn’t go the previous day.
The spots marked at map are:
0- Hotel Paisaje del Beagle
1- Touristic Port
2- Train of the End of the World
3- Birds Island, Wolves Island, Les
Eclaireurs lighthouse
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After
Since we could do the cruise by Canal Beagle
yesterday, later we purchased a tour by Tierra del Fuego National Park,
including the train of the end of the world that we were going to do
anyway. So, we’re picked up by the hotel at 7:45 AM, just after our
breakfast. The coach makes some other stops to get more people before
leaving Ushuaia to go to the train station.
The station and trains match: the both are looking
like belonging to another century. The locomotives emit a dense white
smoke.
 
Price for the train is 1800$ per person, but that
was already included on the 3800$ we paid yesterday for the entire
tour. We make some time by taking pictures in this crowded station
until it is announced the boarding for our train.
These trains are narrow and lower, like if it was
a scale of a real one. Our two seats with a small table in between and
the same in the other side gives just space for a pass way of half of a
meter. The headsets for the audio guide are connected to the ceiling
and it only starts to work when the train is leaving the station.
 
The audio is about the history of the prison that
was once here and the live of the prisoners that used this train.
Somehow, the first stop has nothing to do with this, it’s for a short
walk to a waterfall. Most people use it too for pictures with the
trains.
   
The rest of the route goes through a beautiful
landscape with areas full of the stumps that are coming from the works
of that time. At the end of the railway our coach is waiting for us for
the visit to the National Park. The rest of the passengers just have
the same route back to the initial station in the same train.
Now it’s our guide who explains details about the
Park while we’re getting in it and go through it. The first stop is in
a beautiful lake.
After this, we stop by the Visitors Center, we’re
we have some time to explore it and go to the toilet before coming back
to the coach.
We have a final stop by the limit of the park to
walk through the platforms that are creating a circular circuit at
Pataia Bay, very close to the Chilean border.
The coach makes its way back to Ushuaia from
there. We choose to be left by the city center because it’s lunch time.
This time we choose the most popular grill in the
city: “La Estancia”. There we pay 980$ per person for the buffet and
all the meat we want to order at the grill. Drinks are not included.
 
We leave the place full and are up for a walk to
the other side of the bay, where the popular Ushuaia letters sign is,
in front of a beautiful view of Canal Beagle. It uses to be lines for
taking photos here. We don’t have any rushes since all we wanted to do
is already done, so wait until we can make our funny pictures here.
We go to the hotel for a rest. In the two nights
we’ve been here I’ve been looking to the horizon at night to check if
we could have a glimpse of Southern lights. That’s something I could do
from my bed. Hotel staff already told me it cannot be seen, and I got
nothing indeed.
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