Ushuaia

We flew at 6:30 AM from the downtown airport in Buenos Aires to Ushuaia, on board a cramped charter plane, where we met the other 197 members of our party.

A bus took us from the airport to town, where we sent postcards (and got eyedrops at a pharmacy, in Spanish), then over Route 3 (Pan-American highway) to a traditional lamb-roast in one of the winter resorts (where they also raise sled dogs). Then a tour of the Tierra del Fuego National Park before boarding our ship, the M. S. Austral. We sailed at about 6:30 PM and were still in the historic Beagle Channel at nightfall.