Museo fin del Mundo

This means museum at the end of the world. Fin del Mundo.

Fascinating
Many things lie in this museum, some are quite fascinating (im not kidding).

Many ships and planes have crashed here and stories of savage seas, freezing weather and inhospitable locals adorn the walls.

Sinkage
One of the biggest ship sinkages involved a passenger steamer with 1,500 Europeans mostly Germans (surprise, surprise).

This was more than the whole population of Ushuaia at that time (C.1915).

Lodgers
Stranded people had to lodge with famalies in Ushuaia,
1,500 of them to 836 locals.

Death
The captain was the only one who died.

He was unable to escape in time, rooting for papers apparently, heavy smoker dont yer know.

This and many other exciting stories are there to behold in the Museo fin del Mundo.

Well worth the money.

Tren Fin del Mundo

Being a geeekish time waster type, I decided to give this train a go.

Originally used to carry passengers to a remote part of Patagonia it was closed down some time in the 19th C and recently re-opened for the purposes of tourism.

It moves very slowly and is quite boring.

Beavers
The piped commentary tells of prisoners, harsh conditions, prisoners and beavers building damns.

The most exciting thing is the

Petrified forest
A petrified forest remains intact forming a vast plain where prisoners felled trees for fuel and rails (the railway used to have wooden tracks).

Frozen stumps are interspersed with wild horses mountains and mountain streams.

It is freezing cold.

This is a picture of the train.

There.

Thats made it more exciting.

Irizar Beer – The Southernmost BEEr in the WORLD

Yes and its not sponsored by coke (yet).

Labelling
Groovey cause you can peel the labels of and stick them to things, like you used to with Becks.

Labelling technology has obviously not caught up down here.

Fantastic
The beer tastes fantastic, which obviously is the most important factor.
Its called Irizar of Ushuaia, the southernmost beer in the world.