My travel to Ushuaia and my meeting with "Napoleon"
I always wanted to go to Ushuaia, I heard a lot of things about this place my entire life that in some way I felt the obligation to take my things and just let myself fall in this very extreme part of the American continent.
The first thing that I has to do was travel to the city of Punta Arenas, located in the Magallanes region, southern most place in Chile, second only by the Antarctic territory. After my arriving in Punta Arenas, I bought a bus ticket for Ushuaia. There were long thirteen hours away for me and my only partner was my bag, my trip book and a pencil.
Once the bus departure from Punta Arenas, the beauty of the landscape envolved our itinerary, and some way or another makes the hour fly by. Suddenly our bus stopped moving, and after a couple hours I realised that I was completely stuck in the middle of nowhere. Only the argentinian pampa was my partner. After a three hours, I started to talk with an french guy who was traveling around the world for the last eight months.
His story was very interesting, he was a very direct descendant of Napoleon. And he told me very rares stories about him and his supposed great grand uncle. He seems so convinced with his linage that took like a personal mission saved the bus and the people who travel in it. It seem that this guy want to start a little french revolution in Magallanes and emancipated the Pampa with his heroic behaviour. And he did! With his help the bus works again. Finally this guy started to said that we were saved by a french guy. And from there I stopped talking to him. What a fattening!

He is probably one of 1,000 descendants of Napoleon...or maybe, he is like the French guy who considers himself the king of the Mapuches--apparently some Mapuche groups see this as legitimate.
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