We had heard a lot about Ushuaia – from being a great place to being totally overrated with nothing to offer but the tag “end of the world / southern most city in the americas” – and we actually had already discarded going there.
Then Christmas was approaching, and with both Rieke and me never having spent a Christmas being away from the family we thought: if we’re already THAT far from everyone on that date, what better place to go then than the End of the World. Also the fact that is was around 30 degrees and humid in Buenos Aires at that time, from where we would leave to New Zealand a few days later, was not really too appealing. At least we wanted to get a bit closer to the German Christmas feeling weather wise – and that’s what we got: 5-10 degrees and a few showers 
o.k., only that this year Germany got a fairy tale winter with 2 months of consistent snow or so. Can’t have everything it seems.
So Ushuaia: a really nice place actually! And in a beautiful setting between a snowy mountain range in the back and Beagle Channel in front. The perfect choice for our Christmas eve in South America, except maybe the fact that we had to have our Christmas dinner at 16:00h because all the restaurants close in the evening – but perfect timing for the christmas skype calls with our 3 families that is Riekes’ 1 and my 2 beloved ones (ooooh, how sweet was my grandma on skype!!!).
Crossing the border to Argentina again (5th time?) - Argentinians collect the price for slowest border procedures by far in whole south america btw.
Our home for the 5 days in Ushuaia - got pretty lucky actually, incredible how crowded this town is at that time of the year
View at Ushuaia from the harbour with the Martial Mountain range in the back
Not a castle but nice to have some space for a few days
Christmas skyping with my Family - bit sad to be so far away on that day, actually that was my first Christmas not being home I realized. But very nice to be able to not only talk to but see everyone over video at least
Streets of Ushuaia
And that was our time in Tierra del Fuego already - view from the plane
