so today, we headed out early once again in order to catch the 9am ferry to Tierra del Fuego! Porvenir in my Lonely Planet travel guide book has exactly 1 thing listed to do: el museo de la municipalidad. yep, thats it. but we went anyways because now i can say that I have been to Tierra del Fuego :)
the best part was the ferry ride over there - 2.5 hours each way. on the way there we sat by a mom with her 4 year old son and her sister. after about half way through the ferry ride I was finally able to strike up a conversation with this little tike - you guys know hoe i really enjoy kids, so it was killing me the whole time. but let me tell you that it is a little hard to communicate with little kids in a second language. at one point he was like "¡no entiendes nada!" thats right, he told me that i don't understand anything. oh dear, the honesty of little kids. but we taught him how to play tic-tac-toe, i read him dragon tale books, and we played with his little cars. good time all around. and the coolest part is that he LIVES in Tierra del Fuego, so I was playing with a little Fueguino!!!!!!!!!!! and Juan en Serio, my pinguino, was sitting there too :) its the little things in life.
so, my guide book was right. there was nothing to do in Porvenir. we did the museo, found an interesting park, walked along the coast, sent some postcards, and still had time to kill. mind you we only had an hour and a half on the island because the bus to take us back to the ferry left at 1:15 for the 2pm ferry and we didn't get there til 11:30pm. crazy right?? but we were SOO happy that we only had an hour and half lol. we didn't even find any open restaurants.
on the ferry ride back we bought cafe and pancitos (bread and cheese heated up so the cheese melts). and we enjoyed our ride back. i love boats and water.
only way home we stopped by the museo del recuerdo which basically was a yard filled up with old mining equipment, train cars, buildings, carts, etc. and then walked the rest of the way home. it started to snow....and yes, this was when i saw school girls walking around in skirts with no tights. we also saw lots of garden gnomes.
region xii-dia 7 Porvenir, TdF (178 photos), by Sarah Moredock
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