Equipo Williams

Ushuaia is a city at the end of the world, the southernmost big city. It is maybe fifty fourish-ish degrees south. We spent three nights and three days there and I will now tell you about it. 

First off, Ushuaia is SUPER touristy. You’ve got to search for cheap restaurants. In fact, we tried to go to one that looked really cheap, it was kind of “rustic”, but each dish was almost thirty dollars so we just got up and left. There is an as my parents would say main drag next to the Strait of Magellan, but one street up is where all of the restaurants and gift shops are, so, naturally, we went to only restaurants that weren’t on this street, because they were no joke nine times cheaper. We managed to spend about twenty five dollars on each dinner. Lunches were on the expensive street, but in cafes. The last day we went to a cafe that was I think also a motorcycle store and had a bunch on display. All of the restaurants and cafes had delicious food, for cheap. Like, four to eight dollars per dish. Mama once got some cheesy fries with caramelized onions on them, which I ate maybe three fourths of. I got them at the next restaurant, but they weren’t as good.

One of the days we were in Ushuaia we went to a national park. We went on three hikes, one three hundred meter one, one two kilometer one, and a really long one. I think the long one was about ten-ish kilometers. This was the day after we went to Laguna Esmeralda, which meant we had hiked about twenty four kilometers in two days, which we were very proud of. We actually didn’t plan to go on the long walk. The one we were aiming to go on was only three kilometers but we accidentally kept going, onto another path, making our walk a LOT longer. Once we realized this, we were pretty far, so decided to just go to the end of the trail. This happened to be the Argentinian Chilean border, which we may or may not have illegally crossed for a few seconds. We also may or may not posted a picture of my dad standing behind the do not trespass sign, but if you are a police official investigating into this, I am going to be honest, we crossed it. But, only for a few seconds and all we left were footprints, I think.

I also got a souvenir from Ushuaia. Baba said if I didn’t complain on the Laguna Esmeralda hike, which I didn’t, I could get an Ushuaia sweatshirt. I got a grey (or gray, I don’t know the difference if someone knows PLEASE TELL ME) sweatshirt that says Ushuaia Fin Del Mundo (end of the world) on it. It is so cozy and I’ve been wearing it almost nonstop since I got it. I wanted one because they are so cozy, I had lost a sweater and was therefore allowed to get another, as well as the fact that I wanted a souvenir from Ushuaia that I would actually use instead of throwing it in the attic the second I got home. 

All in all, Ushuaia was great. I wouldn’t recommend coming unless you had driven through Patagonia, because, honestly, it doesn’t seem like an accomplishment if you only flew there unless you flew from the opposite side of the world. Just my opinion, because it seemed like an amazing achievement after driving so far. So anyways, I loved going to Ushuaia.