https://www.scmp.com/rss/322375/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Ushuaia’s waterfront stares out on to a small port, its container ships and the Beagle Channel. Inevitably, every visitor to this apparently dismal place takes a windswept selfie in front of the sign proclaiming this the “Fin del Mundo”, and probably most agree that the nickname isn’t wrong – not just because of geography but because there is an “end of the world” feel to this Argentinian town. Ringed by mountains, dominated architecturally by its former prison and filled with houses seemingly... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/2092596/hard-won-charms-ushuaia-town-end-world-most-know?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/2092596/hard-won-charms-ushuaia-town-end-world-most-know?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 May 2017 12:01:06 +0000 By the time a terminal glare from my wife silences my efforts at a David Niven accent, it is too late. The gangplank has not yet been pulled on board, but in the wood-lined 1930s-saloon of the SS Sudan, we have already fallen through time. The ship is 130 years old, ancient Egypt's treasures lay downriver and the waiters have been compelled to wear a fez as part of their uniform. On the wall are black and white photographs of a glowering King Farouk on his wedding day, in 1938. Wilfully dated... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel-leisure/article/1929967/sail-river-nile-aboard-steamer-agatha?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel-leisure/article/1929967/sail-river-nile-aboard-steamer-agatha?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:02:09 +0000