El fin del mundo


We made it. We are in Ushuaia.
Trust me, you should go there.
Ushuaia means "bay overlooking the West". The indigenous people of this amazing place were the Onas and the Yamanas. Tribes that lived from fishing and hunting sea lions. They were NAKED, and kept "warm" with the sea lions´ fat and fur. IT´S FREEZING DOWN THERE!!!! The Europeans killed Ona´s when they put clothes on them; isn´t it ironic?? In 1902, this city became the terrorific destination for murderers, burglars and many other deliquents who were sent to the Ushuaia´s prison to serve their sentences. The prisoners worked on building the city. They had their own workshops of carpentry, clothes confection, bakery, and mandy other things to help inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego to survive in that inhospitable land. This institution worked until 1947, when the prison is closed and many Europeans and Argentinians moved to this end of the world to look for opportunities.

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