From Puerto San Julian to Rio Gallegos, still kilometers and always more kilometers... It's long and often monotonous, but it is still an incredible experience. To cross Patagonia, at our pace, will remain something fantastic in our hearts. Rio Gallegos to Rio Grande, another 350 kms, we will cross the Chilean border and the Argentinian border and will cross the Strait of Magellan to end up on Tierra del Fuego.
We have seen again guanacos and nandus everywhere on the way. They have become part of our daily life and scenery.
Our objective of Tierra del Fuego, the end of the world, the beginning of everything, is approaching and the excitement is slightly mounting.The last 100 kms, we are really excited, stop every few kilometers to take pictures of the road signs, the 3000 kms road sign on Ruta 3 deserves a picture.
We are not talking anymore together as we are both thinking about our arrival. The emotions are increasing as we know we are reaching one major goal of our trip. The last kilometers before our arrival is very different from the steppes we have crossed. Here we find again the trees, the mountains, the cold and the wind. It reminds us slightly of British Colombia. It is with emotion that we take the traditional picture of our arrival in Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world.
In short, we are happy, even if we think that we are back home in Montreal because of the temperature. The weather is sunny at times, cloudy at other times, but a little bit chilly.
Yesterday, we have done a boat tour on the Beagle canal. Ushuaia is not really a pretty town, but the settings of the town is amazing, surrounded by mountains. We enjoy the scenery and are just happy to be here.
Ushuaia and beyond : Today, March 19th, we went to the Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego, created in 1960. It's a 63000 ha park which also hosted the Yamanas. These tribes don't exist anymore. They disappeared with the Europeans who brought all kinds of diseases. The park Tierra del Fuego is also the end of the Road, the end of the Ruta 3 in Lapataia, 22kms after Ushuaia. It's the end, you cannot go any further and we take the real picture that all bikers have on their blogs. We are thrilled !
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