At the bus terminal in Montevideo, I grabbed my bags and looked for an ATM to take out some Uruguayan Pesos. I found one near the entrance of the bus station, took out 6000 pesos (almost $200), then popped out front and waited in line for a cab. … Read more
Tag: Walkabout
Buenos Aires, Argentina
I spent the four hour bus ride from Rosario to Buenos Aires writing on my laptop and staring out the window. The bus rolled into the Terminal de Omnibus on the Rio de la Plata in the North side of the city at about 8pm.… Read more
Córdoba & Rosario, Argentina
The bus ride from Santiago to the border with Argentina passed without a hitch. After getting our passports stamped at immigration, we had to wait an hour and a half at customs for our bus’s turn to be searched and inspected. … Read more
Santiago & Valparaíso, Chile
The bus ride into Chile was slow and long. It was supposed to take seven hours, but wound up taking nine and a half. Trucks that had been waiting several days for the inclement weather to pass and the customs to open were backed up for miles approaching the Chilean border. … Read more
San Miguel de Tucuman & Mendoza, Argentina
The bus ride to San Miguel de Tucuman took five hours and arrived at 7pm. Again, the scenery during the ride, zigzagging up across desolate rocky desert plateaus down through ripe wine valleys, was incredible. Northwest Argentina certainly is beautiful.
I didn’t feel like immediately catching an overnight bus to Mendoza, so decided to stay a day or two in Tucuman and see what the city has to offer. … Read more