Ushuaia, dream and reality

The only name of Ushuaia, synonymous with end of the world, makes dream. Unfortunately the dream partly made place with the mercenary attitude.
Exploiting the appelation "fin del mundo" declined on the "mugs", the "tee-shirt" or other memories of a more or less sure taste, the tradesmen of the street San Martin or those of the port, between 2 hotels, try to secure throughout the year an income which enables them to live in this place distant from all. How to be upset with them?
Obliged passage of the croisierists specialized in the voyages in southern seas, Ushuaia sees unloading - almost each day - troops of American, European tourists or Japanese in search of adventure to few expenses (way of speaking).
The few lines which I have just written on the subject under hear - you will have understood it - a certain disappointment. It is true that we had made the error to precede this stopover by unforgettable places (see the article on the Glacier Perito Moreno and Fitz Roy).
The stays which propose the "tour operators", of 2 or 3 days on average, pathetically and are unbearably marked out: the obliged points of passage are the lighthouse of "Eclaireurs" and the visit of the park "Tierra del Fuego", water-bus and circuit in the bus, group made up.
Even if it is undeniable that these sites have a certain pace. If one seeks the strange one and the exceptional one, it is for a long time to have better budgeted for it: a navigation towards Cape Horn, an adventure in the Antarctic of a few days, cost at least 3000 $ per anybody.
Ushuaia lets however show through this indefinable impression of end of the world and legends. The proximity of mythical places like Cape Horn or the Magellan Strait, is maybe the reason. The phantom of grand sailors haunts the carcasses of failed ships.
The memory of forwardings Magellan (1520) or Beagle (1832-1836) is intensely present. History of men at the same time simple and exceptional, like Pasteur Thomas Bridge (1886), which left us in heritage the only trace which remains of the Yamanas Indians, in a dictionary English-Yamanas, the presence of the lighthouse of the Eclaireurs which still testifies to the spirit builder and universal of the French, are as many points which counterbalance the first impression.