{"id":60,"date":"2012-10-01T03:17:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T03:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2012-10-26T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:12:32","slug":"navimag-ferry-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/navimag-ferry-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Tried to get the Navimag ferry, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I&#8217;ve heard great things about the Navimag ferry, which runs from Central Chile&#8217;s southernmost point at Puerto Montt for three days down through fiords and glaciers to Chilean Patagonia at Puerto Natales, just south of the Torres del Paine. A trip of a lifetime, I&#8217;ve heard from so many.<\/p>\n<p>Though I also heard grouses that it was unreliable, but was cheered by reports that lately it had got much better.<\/p>\n<p>So, being in Chile we at last got bookings on the Navimag that was due to set sail into the chilly waters on Friday 28 September&#8230;And were excited enough to start mentally counting glaciers&#8230; Except that on Tuesday we got an email from Navimag saying that the sailing was cancelled, due to &#8216;programmed maintenance taking longer than we expected&#8217;. (They have promised to return our money, in quite a charming way, at least).<\/p>\n<p>So to anyone who&#8217;s taken the Navimag ferry, felicidades\/congratulations. A trip for another lifetime, maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Ho hum. Decided to go to Chilo\u00e9 instead. A shorter sea voyage, a little under half an hour each way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I&#8217;ve heard great things about the Navimag ferry, which runs from Central Chile&#8217;s southernmost point at Puerto Montt for three days down through fiords and glaciers to Chilean Patagonia at Puerto Natales, just south of the Torres del Paine. A trip of a lifetime, I&#8217;ve heard from so many. Though I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,6],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chile","tag-chile","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}