Ushuaia

Barcleit 1912

Small restaurant with a variety of local dishes and a few unconventional options. Try the pizza alemana with mustard and sausage.

Beagle Channel

Catamaran trips will take you around the Beagle Channel and give you nice views of the mountains, cormorants, penguins, orcas, seals and sea lions. Make sure that your guide is English speaking before booking a trip.

Bodegon Fuegino

Locally-sourced, artisanal, home-cooked food. Tapas-style picadas recommended as sampling menu. Good wine selection.

Casa de Gobierno

The local government building is a strange mixture of functionalism with Alpine elements and is hard to miss.

Cerro Castor

If you want more, this centre for winter sports offers alpine and cross-country skiing and snowboarding. Nearby in Las Cotorras you can also ride snowcats or husky sleighs.

Chez Manu

Local cuisine. Patagonia lamb, seafood and fish. Ask for a seat along the large windows for great views of Ushuaia.

El Bambu

Vegetarian. Takeout only, but you can also eat-in on a stool, at a stand, with plastic forks. Some dishes are charged by the weight, others by the unit, all of them are delicious, vegetarian and extremely affordable.

El Timonel Restobar

Friendly family all-day seafood cafe with fish, seafood empanadas, and a few grills.

Tue-Sun 12:00-00:00

El Turco

Argentine (not Turkish) cuisine. One of the most affordable restaurants in the city.

Hike the Glaciar Martial

Provided that you wear comfortable shoes and have the patience, a hike up the Glaciar Martial will provide a very beautiful view of Ushuaia and the Beagle Channel. There is also a single ski slope open during the winter months, and ski rentals are available from the site.

Kaupé

Expensive compared to other restaurants in Ushuaia, but the view is spectacular and the food is absolutely, positively guaranteed not to disappoint. Also known for its king crab.

Küar

A couple of kilometers outside town, right above the rocks by the sea, breathtaking bay views and good live music scene, sophisticated and good but not outstanding and somewhat pricey dining. If you don't mind the occasional dropping by of a bunch of gringos, be sure to book a table by the window in the restaurant area or to take a seat by the big wooden steps in the bar area.

La Rueda

Typical Argentine parrilla (barbecue). All-you-can-eat meat with a self-serve veggie and side bar.

Laguna Esmeralda

It's a short but muddy hike from the highway through peat bogs to get there, but the stunning lake is worth it. The colour of the water changes with the time of day. Try to be there before noon, which is when the majority of tourists start pouring in.

Before 15:00·Free

Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse

Lighthouse at the End of the World

Reached by a short boat tour from Ushuaia, it is known locally as the Lighthouse at the End of the World, though the lighthouse made famous by Jules Verne in the novel of the same name is the San Juan de Salvamento lighthouse further east on Isla de los Estados.

Mastil de General Belgrano

A remote area west of the city of Ushuaia on Isla Redonda, paying tribute to one of the founders of Argentina, and to the navy cruiser named after him which was sunk by the UK in the Falklands War. It was a stop on one of the televised Amazing Race contests, and features a one-person post office for sending letters from the end of the world.

~$100

Museo Marítimo

Located in an old prison, this is four museums in one. The maritime museum displays a collection of the history of Tierra del Fuego. One wing has been converted to an art gallery named Museo de Arte Marino featuring the work of local artists. There is also an Antarctic museum and, of course, a museum of the prison.

Museo del Fin del Mundo

The museum exists in two separate buildings on Av. Maipu a few blocks apart. Highlights include the largest exhibited collection of birds from Tierra del Fuego, the figurehead of the Duchess of Albany (a sunken vessel), and a library dedicated to the history and nature of Tierra del Fuego.

Admission AR$36,000 (Oct 2025)

Plaza Malvinas

Monument to the Falkland Islands War of 1982. These islands are called the Islas Malvinas in Argentina.

Tante Sara

A popular two-floor café. Coffee, sandwiches and hot fast food, along with beer, wine and other spirits.

Sun-Thu 08:00-20:30; Fri Sat 08:00-21:00

Tren del Fin del Mundo

The "train to the end of the world" is a pleasant 45-minute train ride with an audioguide into the park on a narrow gauge railway rebuilt on part of the roadbed of the old logging train. The train line operated from 1909 to 1952, transporting timber and other material in the penal colony, and reopened in 1994 as a tourist train. You won't get very good views of the park but train enthusiasts in particular will enjoy the ride. The train also stops for about 15 minutes at a station in the middle of the journey, just long enough to take the 5 minute walk to the waterfall, or buy a drink and take a picture with the employees dressed as prison inmates.

Ushuaia Golf Club

West of town just before the entrance to the National Park, this is probably the southernmost golf course in the world.

Kayak the Beagle Channel

Kayaks with a guide can be hired near the Aeroparque on the promontory jutting out from Ushuaia.

La Casa de Los Mariscos

Delicious seafood - including the famous sentolla king crab dishes - in a warm unpretentious setting.Very good price-quality ratio.

20,000+

Motonave Barracuda Sail

Ship trips will take you around the Beagle channel and give you nice views of the mountains, cormorants, sea lions and penguins.

Mountain biking

The downhill trails are not to be underestimated: Bring your stamina. Club Andino sells mountain biking guidebooks with rough maps and trail descriptions. Mountain bikes can be rented at the Alamo car rental at Belgrano 96.

Ojo del Albino glacier

The glacier in the Sierra Alvear mountain range is one of the most picturesque glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, due to its ice-filled lagoon and the prominent terminal moraine. It covers an area of 86 hectares and contributes runoff to Laguna Esmeralda. A visit to the glacier is a full-day excursion that takes between 9 and 10 hours, starting from Route 3. Most visitors use the trail that crosses the Tierra Mayor Valley and leads to Laguna Esmeralda. Access to the lagoon is easy, but the climb to reach the glacier becomes more difficult towards the end of summer when ice forms on the rocks polished by the glacier. Although slightly longer, access is easier via the Beban River Valley, where you must go all the way down and ascend one of the scree slopes where small trickles of meltwater flow. Then you must return south, traversing the hillside until you reach the glacier's terminal moraine, which you must cross. From there, the view is spectacular.

Parque del Tierra del Fuego

Just go to the "bus station" (next to the Tourist Information office) and ask for a ticket (see getting around section on this page). Get out at the second stop (number one being the ticket office) and do the long seaside walk. Do not spend too much time there though, make sure you do it in three hours. Have a cup of coffee at the refuge and then head down to the Policia Nacional and do the round routes (route number 1, 3 and 6 are the best). Hop on the last bus at 19:00 (make sure you don't miss it or you will have to travel "a dedo" back to Ushuaia).

General admission AR$40,000; national residents AR$18,000; provincial residents AR$8,000; students AR$12,000 (Jun 2026)

Bar Ideal

Irish pub.

Open until midnight

Cafe Bar Banana

San Martín 273