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Upcoming: Patagonia & Antarctica

31 Dec December 31

Travelling from 11/03/2015 to 22/04/2015

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31/12/2014, 5:30AM Six hours of planning and a few rum & coke’s later here in San Pedro Sula, I can now present the next part of my trip. Fast forward in February and after a quick stop in Colombia, I will take a couple of flights to get down to Patagonia & Antarctica! It’s all booked now!! 🙂

As usual, this post aims to see if anyone would like to join me for the next big adventure. In this one, you should not mind the cold and be willing to hike a lot, going down to the most southern parts of our planet. I am in the middle of traveling Central America (see the live updates!) and can finally tell well enough the date of being done here, which enabled me to book the flights to get down to the south of South America!

Due to my delay in Central America, I sadly had to cancel my Sailing adventure in the Caribbean and also the summit of Aconcagua in order to make it down to Ushuaia in time to catch my boat to Antarctica. I will still head to Colombia though and then fly out from Santa Marta to Bogota and from there to El Calafate via Buenos Aires. After a lot of research, I was able to find a great deal for just 550€ for all three flights, directly booked with the airlines!

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Please see the detailed plan and check the different destinations on Google, so you can decide if it would be something for you. Note that I could not do all of Patagonia before Antarctica, that’s why I had to split it that way. The part in the Torres del Paine National Park might get a little bit cold, but at least we should have great landscapes during the fall season. Maybe I will be as lucky as in Canada during the start of my trip 🙂

And if you have traveled in those areas before and you can provide some valuable feedback to improve my plan or add missing things, please let me know in the comments as well! I am able to shift things around between the booked flights and tours! PS: Whenever it says “Transfer to XX”, it means ground transport. XX > YY are flights.

10.03.2015 Tu South America Argentina Buenos Aires > El Calafate
11.03.2015 We South America Argentina El Calafate Transfer to El Chalten
12.03.2015 Th South America Argentina El Chaltén Laguna de los Tres Hike (8 hours roundtrip)
13.03.2015 Fr South America Argentina El Chaltén Laguna Torre Hike (6 hours roundtrip, could be combined)
14.03.2015 Sa South America Argentina El Chaltén Lago Del Desierto (8 hour with a tour, maybe hitch hike instead?)
15.03.2015 Su South America Argentina El Chaltén Get as close as possible to Cerro Fitz Roy & Cerro Torre
16.03.2015 Mo South America Argentina El Chaltén Optional: do a 9 day hike on the ice cap instead
17.03.2015 Tu South America Argentina Backup Day Backup Day
18.03.2015 We South America Argentina Backup Day Backup Day
19.03.2015 Th South America Argentina El Chaltén Transfer to El Calafate
20.03.2015 Fr South America Argentina El Calafate Los Glaciares National Park
21.03.2015 Sa South America Argentina El Calafate  Perito Moreno Glacier
22.03.2015 Su South America Argentina El Calafate Onelli Glacier
23.03.2015 Mo South America Argentina Backup Day Backup Day
24.03.2015 Tu South America Argentina El Calafate > Ushuaia RLOC (Confirmation Number): MFXMEF
25.03.2015 We Antarctica Antarctica Ushuaia > Antarctica Booking Reference: 15557
26.03.2015 Th Antarctica Antarctica Crossing the Drake Passage
27.03.2015 Fr Antarctica Antarctica Crossing the Drake Passage
28.03.2015 Sa Antarctica Antarctica South Shetland Islands & Antarctica
29.03.2015 Su Antarctica Antarctica South Shetland Islands & Antarctica
30.03.2015 Mo Antarctica Antarctica South Shetland Islands & Antarctica
31.03.2015 Tu Antarctica Antarctica South Shetland Islands & Antarctica
01.04.2015 We Antarctica Antarctica Crossing the Drake Passage
02.04.2015 Th Antarctica Antarctica Crossing the Drake Passage
03.04.2015 Fr Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica > Ushuaia
04.04.2015 Sa South America Argentina Ushuaia
05.04.2015 Su South America Argentina Ushuaia Tierra del Fuego National Park
06.04.2015 Mo South America Argentina Ushuaia Tierra del Fuego National Park
07.04.2015 Tu South America Argentina Ushuaia Transfer to Punta Arenas
08.04.2015 We South America Chile Punta Arenas Penguins at Isla Magdalena y Marta
09.04.2015 Th South America Chile Punta Arenas Penguins at Isla Magdalena y Marta
10.04.2015 Fr South America Chile Punta Arenas
11.04.2015 Sa South America Chile Punta Arenas Transfer to Puerto Natales
12.04.2015 Su South America Chile Puerto Natales
13.04.2015 Mo South America Chile Puerto Natales Torres del Paine National Park
14.04.2015 Tu South America Chile Puerto Natales Torres del Paine National Park
15.04.2015 We South America Chile Puerto Natales Torres del Paine National Park
16.04.2015 Th South America Chile Puerto Natales Torres del Paine National Park
17.04.2015 Fr South America Chile Puerto Natales Torres del Paine National Park
18.04.2015 Sa South America Chile Puerto Natales Torres del Paine National Park
19.04.2015 Su South America Chile Puerto Natales Torres del Paine National Park
20.04.2015 Mo South America Chile Puerto Natales Transfer to El Calafate
21.04.2015 Tu South America Argentina El Calafate
22.04.2015 We South America Argentina El Calafate > Buenos Aires

So if any of this seems interesting to you, please let me know if you want to join. Or maybe you even live in the area and would like to meet up for a beer or a jam session. In any case, just write something in the comments here 🙂

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If you are interested in joining me for this trip, please check out the About Me section to get to know me a bit better first. Also head over to my Travel Report or Photography pages to read about my previous trips or see a list of all my Upcoming Trips!
 

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