Ushuaia
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Oct 30, 2026
Gabriel AldazHOST
Previously on the Accidental Bicycle Tours podcast, in the two-part series, The Original Bikepackers and the Improbable Bike Centennial, we met Greg and June Seipel and Dan and Liz Burden, two couples who set out in 1972 on Hemish Tour, an ambitious cycling expedition from Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina.
Gabriel AldazHOST
It was during that journey that the idea for Bike Centennial 76, a cross-country bicycle ride celebrating the 200th anniversary of the United States, first took shape.
Gabriel AldazHOST
When Dan Burden contracted a severe case of hepatitis in Mexico, he and Liz were forced to end their journey and return home.
Evelyn KellyGUEST
We were going to Antarctica.
Evelyn KellyGUEST
And the jumping off place is a place called Ushuaia, which is near Buenos Aires.
Evelyn KellyGUEST
So we were flying into Buenos Aires.
Evelyn KellyGUEST
We get to Buenos Aires, and guess what? We have no luggage.
Steve GraceHOST
How do people react to somewhere like that? Look, if you
Peter HillaryGUEST
go down on a ship out of Ushuaia, which is what we're doing early next year, you know, it's only a couple of weeks of your time.
Peter HillaryGUEST
You're going to the Ice Age.
Peter HillaryGUEST
As you cross the Drake Passage towards the Antarctic Peninsula, you enter this realm of ice.
Dave FarinaGUEST
So it's going around the perimeter, close to the perimeter of their little disk.
Dave FarinaGUEST
And so that ends up not working because what happens is now in the south, as you go all the way even to where people live, like southern Argentina and Australia and stuff, when it's – You know, in December, mid-December and January, it's light most of the day, right? In Ushuaia, Argentina, it's daylight for like 19 or 20 hours.
Dave FarinaGUEST
And so how does that work with this thing going all the way out here when it's on the other side of the disc? How is it illuminating over there while in the center it's 24-hour night?
Dante NeroHOST
Because it would travel.
AlunHOST
And Antarctica evaded me to such a ruthless degree.
AlunHOST
I spent like a month in Ushuaia at the bottom of Argentina just knocking on ships' doors trying to get to Antarctica.
AlunHOST
Failed to do so.
AdamHOST
With no sailing experience whatsoever, you were just prepared to do anything, were you? Just work as a skivvy on board?
Amara ObaHOST
Ikechukwu, to you, what needs to change for more African teams to probably get to the final of the World Cup?
Ikechukwu OkekeGUEST
I think, um, I'll use an example of, um, 2023 because I think that was one of my fondest memories of following any youth, um, youth team tournament that is apart from the, um, the U20 World Cup that I saw at Ushuaia, Brown Wilder.
Ikechukwu OkekeGUEST
Um, but I think it's just, um, A mentality issue.
Ikechukwu OkekeGUEST
A mentality issue.
Betty BNARRATOR
There are regular steamers from Bahia Blanca to the Strait of Magellan, and once a month there is a vessel to Tierra del Fuego.
Betty BNARRATOR
The ship skirts the eastern side of the island and goes about its southern boundary from Beagle Channel to Ushuaia.
Betty BNARRATOR
The voyage lasts about 45 days, and the fare is just about $100.
Betty BNARRATOR
The ships call at all of the ports along the coast of Patagonia and terminate the voyage at Ushuaia.
Betty BNARRATOR
Ushuaia is 1,670 miles south of Buenos Aires, 100 miles or so south of the Strait of Magellan, and lies more than 1,000 miles farther south than the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa.
Betty BNARRATOR
The town is a convict settlement and has a large prison for habitual criminals.
Betty BNARRATOR
The penitentiary has a sawmill and also workshops for locksmiths, carpenters, and shoemakers.
Betty BNARRATOR
The prisoners do the work of the community.
Jessica SmithHOST
What is it like up there?
Pamela AlexanderGUEST
So just real quick, the way you get in Antarctica is you fly to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then they fly you to Ushuaia, which is the southernmost city in the world.
Pamela AlexanderGUEST
And then you've got a day to two days in the Drake Passage, which is the roughest ocean in the world.
Pamela AlexanderGUEST
And then you get there and you're in Antarctica and it's absolutely stunning with these massive...
Greg DickinsonHOST
So good choice, Andrew.
Simon CalderHOST
And if Andrew were to head all the way down to Ushuaia, as we covered in a recent edition of The Travel Expert, you can hang around and hopefully pick up a standby last minute cruise to Antarctica.
Greg DickinsonHOST
So in the second half of this Q&A special, we are going to be turning our attention to all things aviation.
Simon CalderHOST
Everybody, Greg, I don't know if I've ever seen a bigger question than this.
Johan StåhlbergGUEST
But yeah, we were, me and my childhood friend Andreas, we were traveling through Chile and to Argentina for skiing and road tripping and going all the way to the end of the world in Chile.
Johan StåhlbergGUEST
I think they pronounce it Ushuaia.
Taylor LawsonHOST
Ushuaia.
Johan StåhlbergGUEST
Yeah, it's the last mainland before coming to Antarctica, basically.
Johan StåhlbergGUEST
And that was the most amazing horror story for a skier I ever done.
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Johan StåhlbergGUEST
And we did a lot of checkpoints because first we went from Chile into Argentina.
Johan StåhlbergGUEST
And then we crossed Argentina.
Johan StåhlbergGUEST
And then if you're going to go down to Ushuaia, you need to go into Chile again.
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