Fin Del Mundo

Five day trip to Ushuaia the southernmost city in the world and El Calafate in patagonia

La Bandera

Ushuaia.. the southern-most city in the world... The air smells like tahoe, and everything else is exactly what i would picture alaska to be.  New life goal: go to alaska and see a moose...
 
The past five days have been a continuous full body shiver... not the temperature kind, but more the feeling you get when you are so humbled, so baffled, so pleasantly insignificant in comparison to it all that you body knows to do nothing else but send a surge up your spine, branching along the skin of your collarbone and up the back of your neck...
 
This is a landscape I never thought i would see, a beauty beyond white sands, and sunsets.  Its a damp fresh beauty one of silence and awe.
 
Calafate (our second destination this past weekend) too, shares this beauty...  The town Calafate itself is very-Nevada-like yet the landscapes just outside of its limits are comparable to none other. The infamous Moreno glacier, rises above the blue milky depths of its mountain lake to humble you like a child viewing the horizon for the first time...  The silence it offers is one of the most beautiful sounds i have ever heard,  broken only by the thundering vehicle-size chunks of ice which plunge to the depths below, a chest hollowing noise which lingers almost as long as the dispersing ripple-affect waves to follow.
 
Amazing truly...