Known as the South American island at the end of the world, people living there have developed a unique culture.

At the southernmost tip of the South American continent, at the end of the Andes, on an island surrounded by mountains, there is a group of people who are closely connected with the harsh natural environment. They are descendants of pioneers who migrated from Europe to Patagonia, Argentina. Looking at this land with grasslands, forests, peatlands and mountains, Europeans named this place Tierra del Fuego.

On the edge of the world, it seems to be abandoned by the world, and the pioneers developed a unique culture. This is a culture based on the heavy physical labor necessary to survive in the cold winter and wilderness.

South American cowboys, known as "Gauchos", are proficient in traditional animal husbandry and equestrian, and they almost live a nomadic life without government intervention. However, in the past, they also participated in Argentina's civil war and independence war. Gauchos symbolizes the Argentine country and culture to some extent.

Among these gauchos, a particularly prominent group is "baqueano", which means capable and experienced tour guides. Many of them are hybrids of Europeans and aborigines, and have long been regarded as guides in the March by the Argentine military.

Argentine President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Albarracín called Pacquiano "the most perfect land surveyor" from 1868 to 1874. Their bravery and detailed knowledge of the surrounding terrain make them popular and reliable guides in that uncivilized land. No matter what kind of creature he faces, Bakyano can track and find a hiding place from a long distance.

Even today, with the development of science and technology to a certain extent, every corner of the South American continent has been fully developed, gauchos still passes on their customs and skills from generation to generation.

The Bloom Zovic family, and the Baguiano family, too. Their ancestors moved to ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, in the early 20th century, in order to escape from Croatian hardships.

"Our grandfather Frey came to Tierra del Fuego in 19 10. He fell in love with this place completely. After returning to Croatia, he sold all his property and found a bride who was willing to settle in Tierra del Fuego with him. After all, there are too few women in Tierra del Fuego. " Becky Bloom Zovic, one of Frey's descendants, said so.

"1922, my grandfather bought a ranch here. He mainly makes a living by selling wood and raising livestock. He and his eight children built a sawmill, and later he moved the sawmill to Lake Escondido, a mountainous area 55 kilometers from the city. " Becky was born and raised in Patagonia and studied tourism at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires.

More than a century later, the sawmill has become a tourist attraction. Here, Frey's descendants introduced tourists to the labor and customs of the Bacuiano people and the culture as a symbol of southern Argentina. Sawmill, as a family heritage, or as a cultural heritage of Bacuiano, is deeply remembered by tourists who come here.

There is a proverb in Patagonia: "gauchos without a horse is not gauchos." In Tierra del Fuego, horses are closely related to people. Horses are not only the partners of human survival, but also play an important role in daily work such as grazing and guarding territory. In addition, Ma is also a comrade-in-arms who fights side by side in competitions that test courage, such as competitive performances and Esgrimma Cleola. Esgrima Cleola is a unique fighting competition in gauchos. People ride horses, use real knives and guns, and use wool shawls as shields to fight.

Now, Bloom Zovik's family uses their riding skills and horses to guide tourists around the area. Jorge is one of Frey's descendants and an experienced tour guide. He led the tourists to ride through the forest around the pasture, cross the river and climb the mountain. At the end of the trip, we will hold a tea party, a cocktail party and a barbecue in Yerbamadei on the shores of Escondido Lake.

Animal husbandry is an important tradition of Bloom Zovic family. In the late 1950s, they began to raise bulls to transport wood cut by sawmills. "My father always said that his dream was to own 125 cows. We inherited his work, and my brothers and sisters and I realized his dream after his death. Now we have enough meat and dairy products to feed our families, and we will sell some in the town and provide them to tourists. " Becky said.

On a ranch near the lake Escondido, visitors can completely immerse themselves in the life of Gaucho and experience the hardships of raising cattle. In addition, once a year, the ranch will hold a "La Yela" activity, which has bull's heads, stamps and marks. This is the most symbolic activity of Tierra del Fuego gauchos culture.

For many people, Gaucho culture symbolizes the love of nature, irreplaceable freedom and "basic values as Argentines", such as hospitality, courage, loyalty and unity. No matter how time passes, no matter how the city of Tierra del Fuego develops, these values will be passed on.

Becky believes: "Tradition is easy to lose. Young people nowadays don't want to work on a farm. I earn less money and work hard. They all want to escape from here and work in a big city like Buenos Aires. But they don't realize how good life is here. This is a healthy lifestyle, both physically and mentally. They are divorced from reality, nature and everything. "