There are some things in Argentina that I can t understand.
I m buying a plane ticket in Ushuaia to go to El Calafate.
In my suprise the price is the same as if I go to Buenos
Aires??? When you think that to go to Ushuaia - Calafate
= 985 km and Ushuaia - Buenos Aires = env 4000 km. Well
thats an enigme for me.
Okay I buy the tiket and go out of the office. Its 15.20
in the afternoon.At this time in Ushuaia all the tourist
boat are on sea. They go all at 15.00. But I don t care
and go to the port, enter in the first ticket office
and ask for a tour. Its my last day in Ushuaia and I
realy want to do it. The girl is suprised because of
my presence. She can t believe I want a boat ride for
today. Well she take the CB and call the boat.
"Hello IF (the name of the boat)
are you still on sea ?"
"negativ we are leaving in 2 minutes"
"Okay, can you take one person more?"
"Hmmm good but fast please..."
And so in 2 minutes I payed the service, followed the
girl in a big run and jump to the boat. ! 5 seconds
later the boat takes the open the sail and we are on
sea.
Waaaooow and know the wind is blowing and the boat break
the waves, we get a little beat wet...But its cool.
Arround us you pay attention to the mountains that just
go from level 0 to level 1500 m. Its a totaly different
impression from beeing on earth and looking to them.
I took a panoramique photo so you can appreciate it.
Take a botle of water put salt in it and turn your ventilator
on...good you ready? So click on the picture and empty
the botle on your body....Can you feel Ushuaia???
Look in the background you can see the snowed mountains:
that s Chile. And here is Terra del Fuego Argentina.
.
Once from this view you could see some firelight, a
lot of them. On earth but also on the Island. This were
the indigen people who lived in this place far away
from comfort and the easy life. They didn t take much
clothes than the animal one, because if they were getting
wet, beeing nude is better than beeing with wet clothes.
Your imagination in this environment get very exited,
you could heard about old legend and believe this stories
took place here just about 500 years ago....
But back to reality.
The boat stop in a desert Island. Here a special vegetation
grows far from polution. Some 500 years old plants continue
their life, growing 1  mm
per year. The rocks have make ups: red to yellow colors.
The view is spectacular. On the ground you can see the
rest of the indian life. Then you meet some cormoran
and other kind of bird.
We continue by boat, without the sails because the wind
stop suddendly, some "Phoques" (in french)
swim and jump out of the water and disappear as they
appeared. Some other Sealions stay on the rock, lasy
lasy life. They don t consider us. On a other island
a giant colonnie of cormoran stay, looking on the same
direction. Why??? Don t ask me.
Free you r mind...go at the End of the World. Nothing
is important anymore, the nature catch you and you get
a feeling of freedom. The god part here is that the
human didn t change to much. The people are still leaving
a simple life, I just hope it will stay like that a
long long time... |
