Panic spiral/Teleferico

Furnicular

Teleferico
Our hotel

Today was a rather lazy day by us. We started off with a ride on the furnicular next to our hotel up to see La Virgen del Cerro on the hill called Cerro San Cristóbal. On the ride up in the furnicular I have repeated alerts from my travel app that our flight to Punta Arenas had been cancelled. Cue panic spiral, Matt was madly trying to find other flights tomorrow that got us there in time and I was just losing it! After Matt’s third flight option routed through Panama City we stopped, and decided to wait till I got ahold of the airline at the top of the hill. I had already rebooked this flight twice, and the return flight through different airlines twice. An eternity (5min) on hold later with airline and our flight hadn’t been cancelled but renumbered. So our check in no longer applied but we did still have a flight. I feel sorry for the other passengers showing up tomorrow, at no point did the airline let us no of the changes and we would have thought we were checked in and ready to go. Then we went on a hike to see the radio Virgin. She was a beautiful statue with a giant antenna behind her leading me and Matt to make snarky jokes about Divinity enhanced cell coverage and Broadcasting Virgin-ity. Silly jokes aside about climbing the ladder on her back to enlightenment, we then went for a Teleferico ride. The Teleferico is a cablecar lift with little cars that carry you in the air exactly like that ride at Santa Cruz beach boardwalk. It gave us gorgeous views of Santiago and a pleasant ride. It was surprising and jarring in the stations though where they were blaring out Christmas music in the 90 degree heat. After a great lunch of octopus and grilled meats we went to a cafe and read the afternoon away. Finally a yummy dinner at a fancy restaurant and off to get ready for our flight (por favor madre de Dios) to Patagonia tomorrow.