We rode the Caraterra Austral down to Villa O’Higgins then doubled back and took the 265, alongside the Lago Gral. Carrera to join Ruta 40. From there we headed north up to the Parque National Nahuel Huapi or ‘Lake District’ as it is known in Argentina.
This was an amazing and beautiful route. I think a month is a decent amount of time to do it and there are lots of off shoot roads which will take you to various sights. Personally I would always do my own research as to the specific things I wanted to see as perceptions are always different.
One thing I would say is that, for us, the bottom section to Villa O’Higgins was the best and a lot of non-South Americans, we were in touch with, cut this bit off to go down to Ushuaia, I’m glad we didn’t - if you’ve got time to do both fine but I don’t think a month is long enough. It might be enough to get you to El Chalten and/or El Calafate which is why you need to do a bit of research and decide your priorities.
My fingers are crossed that you get a good weather window
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