The journey took 31 hours including waiting time. In Sydney airport, we waited for five hours before getting on another plane. The plane was off over an hour late, so in Santiago we only had 10 minutes to get from one plane to the next - we were escorted through customs and security, but we had so little time to board the next plane that we didn't have time to collect our luggage.
We then flew for an hour and a half over lots of fiords, lakes and snowy mountains to Puerto Montt and most people got off the plane there. Then more people got on, and we flew another hour and a half south to Balmaceda, which was quite small and remote-looking. We got on a bus to Coyhaique and that took an hour. The scenery looked a lot like New Zealand: cows, sheep, fields and snowy mountains.
The time in Chile is 16 hours behind the time in New Zealand, combine that with 31 hours of traveling, no time to sleep except on planes and you have a recipe for jet lag. We arrived at around 6 pm, got some food and went to sleep because we were tired. That's why there was no blog yesterday.
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