Ushuaia - Activities, Attractions & Shopping
Fireworks and parades mark the shortest day of the year, and the beginning of Ushuaia’s snow season is celebrated in July with a festival and popular cross-country snow walk. In December, businesses close early and people fill the main street as colourful troupes celebrate the Christmas carnival.
Tierra del Fuego National Park to see Lapataia Bay; the park can be reached on the End of the World Train (Tren del Fin del Mundo) from Ushuaia.
The city has a museum of Yamana, English, and Argentine settlement, including its years as a prison colony.
Wildlife attractions include local birds, penguins and orcas as seen on the islands in the Beagle Channel.
There are daily bus tours to Harberton, the estancia of the Bridges family. Some tours also visit the Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, known as the Lighthouse at the End of the World (Faro del Fin del Mundo) — although it is not the same lighthouse like the one made famous by Jules Verne in the novel of the same name.
There are a number of ski areas nearby, like Cerro Castor and Glaciar Martial. The glacier is also a tourist destination during the summer months when the chairlift operates in both directions. Hiking trails lead from the city’s edge to the base of the glacier, which has shrunk dramatically over the past century, as shown in photographs on display.
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We stayed at Club Nautico, run by Uka. Rates (6,5 pesos per sqm as of Jan 2019) were half that of AFASyN. Electricity, water and wi-fi included. Showers were opened, just after we left.
Officials were friendly. Upon entering the country from Chile, we were sent to immigration first (where we were given the same forms to fill in as the ones at prefectura), then to aduana (although immigration may tell you to go to prefectura), and then prefectura. To clear out, start at prefectura, then immigration, customs, prefectura.
We wanted to visit the Natural Parc Lapataia; big disappointment. The prefecture allows us to anchor in this region, no problem. But if we want to come ashore there the hassle begins, the rangers of the National Park don’t allow you to come ashore, formally forbidden.
By road no problem, even now in winter the entrance is free. Who can understand this? We as cruisers got more and more the impression that Argentina wants yachts OUT, for sure foreign yachts. So we sail back to Chili, Puerto Williams.
Club Nautico is a top location, near to centre for shopping and fuel. Nice guy our Uka who takes good care of us even in winter.
Ushuaia Update from Henk Boersma:
All is quiet on the customs front, apart from some issues which involved Argentine sailors with foreign flagged boats. They are still fussy about arriving or going to the Falklands without a permit.