A train ride into the heart of Tierra del Fuego
Clouds of steam from the Train at the End of the World — Pictures by CK LimNo, not quite Antarctica, not the land of ice, not the South Pole. Perhaps it will be more accurate to state that we are at the end of the known inhabited world.
What’s another stretch of pristine wilderness after all the seemingly endless stretches of pristine wilderness before, you ask? Well, where else could we board the final train on Earth? Flags from just about every country in the world hang from the rafters. Is this a boast — “We have welcomed visitors from each corner of the earth!” — or an ambitious declaration of achieving the same? Maybe it’s a meta way of saying that, after a fashion, all paths — be it by rail or road, be it by sea or by air — lead here?The train conductor checks our tickets.
Camila starts chugging away. The platforms melt away. Dense shrubbery and thickets give way to wider open spaces as we crawl towards the gentle slopes of Mount Susana.The further we get from the train station, leaving all signs of civilisation behind, with only the train tracks hinting at anything man-made, we can’t help but feel that we have indeed fallen off the edge of the world.
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