Ushuaia Sun 1/4/07

We woke to find ourselves in Ushuaia the southern most city in the world. It looked very cheerful with the houses all painted in different colours. We were told that this comes from the early days when the only paint available was from the ships and this was all strong colours. Ushuaia is a lovely city with towering snow capped mountains behind and all the development strung out around the sheltered bay. We took a train trip to "the end of the world", it was a restored logging train with one of the smallest gauges in the world. It finished in the Tiera del Fuego National Park with beautiful views over the Beagle Channel.