Send the sherpas to find my body

For the next three weeks or so, Dec 27-Jan 20 we are working our way up the Andes, on the Chilean-Argentine border seeing lots of cool things. We'll be on the move a lot and in and out of network so here's a rough itinerary.

December
27 Figure out some of the below, fly to El Califate in the afternoon.
Sleep in El Califate.

28 bus back down to Puerto Natales to see the Torres del Paine National Park.

Hopefully a short afternoon hike in Torres del Paine

29 full day Torres del Paine, do a proper hike.  It's called Torres del Paine because there's these towers of basalt left by the volcanos. Also notable lakes of different colors.

30 8am bus back to El Califate. Plan is to take the 1:30 pm shuttle returning at 7:30pm to El Califate to see the perito morales glacier.

This glacier is famous because it calves like all the time like basically every five minutes so you get to see and hear it a lot. There's paths around it and a boat you can ride, we'll see how we do.

Stay in El Califate.

31 So if that all worked out take the 8am bus to El Chalten, where there is another we'll regarded national park.  This is where the Fitzroy mountain is. There's a nice long 6-8 hour hike around but not up it I want to do.

January
1/2 do that hike and others

3 Here it gets squirrelly. We want to do Cueva de Los manos, a cave with prehistoric hand paintings that's supposed to be really good. It's in the middle of nowhere, out in Patagonia proper. And I'm excited to see that more desert plains kind of landscape too. 

Made contact with a tour company. But we're talking 6-12 hour transfers with about that much uncertainty.

4 See that cave

5 transfer out to Las Antiguas a lake where there's supposed to be turquoise waters and flamingos near here.

6/7 Las Antiguas

8/9 Marble caves just over the Andes but on a really bad road but supposed to be kind of a Cathedral cave.

10/11/12 Work out way overland through jungle villages along the Coyhaique Puerto Aysen route. 

13 take the ferry over to Isla Grande de Chiloe

14/15/16 Work our way up Isla Grande del Chiloe

17 take the ferry over to Puerto Montt in the morning to catch our 2:40pm flight into Santiago

18/19Santiago. We booked an apartment with a spa in the building. Recover, get pretty for our loved ones to see us again,  maybe see some of the city.

20 10pm flight out of Santiago. Go home young man.