The Old Salt at the End of the World, Tierra del Fuego

The Old Salt at the End of the World, Tierra del Fuego
Originally uploaded by crisis-tour.

After leaving El Calafate at 3am, taking 3 buses and a ferry over 2 border crossings through Chile and 19 hours of beautiful serene sheep fields, we arrived in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world and only 1000km from Antarctica. This is it. This is the end of the world, baby!

The region of Tierra del Fuego got its name from the campfires on land and in the canoes of the Yamana people. The fires were seen from the exploratory ships of Magellan and others in the 1500s, hence the name Tierra del Fuego, or Land of Fire.