{"id":1699,"date":"2016-05-30T15:55:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2016-05-30T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T14:32:36","slug":"el-calafate-rio-gallegos-ushuaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"El Calafate &#8211; Rio Gallegos &#8211; Ushuaia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1564\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160224_124501.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1564\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160224_124501-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ferry crossing the Strait of Magellan at Punta Delgada\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160224_124501-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160224_124501-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160224_124501-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ferry crossing the Strait of Magellan at Punta Delgada (Phone picture)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FEB 24, 2016 &#8211; While Roman was flying back to Buenos Aires, I spent another day in El Calafate &#8211; the bus to Ushuaia only ran at night, and I had to wait for some clothes I had forgotten in El Chalt\u00e9n. At La Tablita, I ate Patagonian roasted lamb for lunch &#8211; a real treat. I got ready for almost 24 hours of sitting in a bus, with a short break in Rio Gallegos, a ferry crossing, and two border crossings: While Ushuaia is on Argentinian soil, the Western half of Tierra del Fuego is Chilean. By now I knew that Chile is very picky about produce crossing its borders, but I was still a bit surprised when even dried fruit was confiscated at the entry point. After a long bus ride through spectacular landscapes, I arrived at the &#8220;End of the World&#8221;. Besides Ushuaia, two places in Chile also compete for the title of &#8220;world&#8217;s southernmost city&#8221;: Punta Arenas further north, which feels more urban (but at a population of 57&#8217;000, Ushuaia has every right to call itself a city), and Puerto Williams further south, which, at a population of 2&#8217;874, should probably go back to calling itself a village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEB 24, 2016 &#8211; While Roman was flying back to Buenos Aires, I spent another day in El Calafate &#8211; the bus to Ushuaia only ran at night, and I had to wait for some clothes I had forgotten in El Chalt\u00e9n. At La Tablita, I ate Patagonian roasted lamb for lunch &#8211; a real<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/?p=1699\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}