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A long day on the road...
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Up at 4:35 and with people wandering home from their nights out, we were getting on a bus to Rio Grande! Organised as ever, we thought we would have to head back to Punta Arenas to get to El Calafate in Argentina but no, when we arrived in Rio Grande we were able to jump straight on a bus to Rio Gallegos on the Argentinian coast and a meagre 4 hour bus ride to El Calafate from there! GENIUS! So that's what we did!
Turned out to be an eventful journey accompanied by a very drunk local man dressed up like a cowboy with a knife tucked into the back of his trousers and a young Argentinian guy who also looked a bit the worse for ware! The young guy kept nicking the old man´s red wine & coke so they were both beasted and the bus man kept having to tell them to stop smoking in the toilets! Hee hee! Both their eyes lit up everytime we stopped as they both had serious attacks of the munchies and cravings for more wine! All good fun! We just settled for more english toffee!
We got more immigration stamps on our passports than you'd believe...we had to leave Argentina, enter Chile, leave Chile and then re-enter Argentina! Confused yet? We finally arrived in Rio Gallegos at 6 in the evening and decided to get all the travelling out of the way and booked a bus to El Calafate at 8! In the meantime, we headed to a petrol station with a cafe across the way, purchased a bottle of vino and some more cheese & ham sarnies (staple diet when you're travelling by bus!) and watched Argentina lose 1-0 to Paraguay! Whooops! After a very disappointing Dairy Milk and the purchase of some yummy biscuit rings with icing on top (you know the ones you eat at parties when you're little!), we jumped on our last bus of the day, cried through 'Pay it Forward' with Kevin Spacey...very good movie and arrived in El Calafate at half past midnight! We thought the hostel people might be waiting at the bus station but no such luck (don't they know who we are!) so wandered into town, found a hostel and slept! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
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Punta Arenas to Rio Gallegos (reply)
Feb 17, 2007 06:02 EST by ultraphil
Hi Dawn,
Dont know if you can help me? Are there any small towns or villages between Punta arenas and Rio Gallegos? I have a friend who is going to run from the southern part of aouth america to the northern part in a couple of years time and im trying to plan the route for him.
Thanks
Phil Essam
pessam@bigpond.net.au
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