{"id":372212,"date":"2019-02-14T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/a-bowl-at-the-end-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T09:17:20","slug":"a-bowl-at-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/a-bowl-at-the-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A bowl at the end of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">A nutshell.<br\/>This is the size of the tiny sailboat with which I decided to tackle the Beagle Channel, in Ushuaia, la <em>fin del Mundo<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four passengers plus a skipper-narrator. This was the entire crew of the <em>Santa Maria<\/em>. We wear yellow oilskins, a size too big even for a person two metres tall. Immediately, I imagine a past as a sea hunter, ready for the daily battle with the dark waves of this place. Because here, the sea is petroleum blue, a deep, icy blue. Our young skipper confirms this feeling by saying: &#8220;<em>If you fall into the water, you have about four minutes before you freeze to death.<\/em>&#8221; How not to think of Jack on that wooden plank as the Titanic sinks majestically behind him? <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a unique experience, a forever-lasting emotion. To be at the end of the world (and you feel that there is nothing there), on a sailboat, the size of a bowl, trudging through clouds and waves playing poker. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many tours here in Ushuaia &#8211; the southernmost city in the world. All you have to do is to decide the route, the type of boat and the budget. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can go to the <em>Ping\u00fcinera<\/em> and spend a couple of hours surrounded by penguins or visit the <em>Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego<\/em>. Or go to the lighthouse known as <em>Fin del Mundo<\/em> in the Beagle Channel or to <em>Isla de Los Lobos<\/em>, the island of sea lions.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ushuaia<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Ushuaia no longer has anything of the outpost that my imagination held in ignorance. As soon as you arrive at the airport, you feel it. The airport is an all-wood building that looks more Scandinavian than Argentinean. And the fact that you get there by a scheduled flight might have been a clue. Even the houses aren&#8217;t anymore what they used to be. Populated by tourists, they hide every convenience of our times.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite this &#8211; or because of this &#8211; Ushuaia is a place to visit. <br\/>Because of the beauty of nature. <br\/>Because of the human contamination that evolves and never stops. <br\/>Because of that feeling, dramatic and precise, of really being at the end of the world.<br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, is a place to visit, perhaps sailing a boat the size of a bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tracks":0,"wds_primary__dg_original-language":0,"wds_primary__geo-map":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[816],"tags":[922],"tracks":[1169],"_dg_original-language":[1039],"_geo-map":[1008],"class_list":["post-372212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journals","tag-patagonia-en","tracks-destinations","_dg_original-language-italian","_geo-map-argentina-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372212"},{"taxonomy":"tracks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tracks?post=372212"},{"taxonomy":"_dg_original-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_dg_original-language?post=372212"},{"taxonomy":"_geo-map","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_geo-map?post=372212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}