Bus journey
Trip Start
Feb 22, 2005
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Trip End
Jun 22, 2005
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Tucuman,
Argentina
Thursday, May 19, 2005
We wanted to reach The Igazu Falls on the Brazilian/ Argentinian border and the most direct route was through Paraguay but the road was supposed to be horrendous, unpaved nightmare and could take anything between 20 hours and 4 days to reach Asuncion the capital. So we decided to give it a miss and go through Argentina where they have Tarmac and luxury buses. And so the journey began:
Tupiza to Tarija - 8hrs overnight, bumpy
Tarija - has a market open at 5.30am for breakfast and generally a very pretty colonial town.
Tarija to Bermejo - 4hrs, noisy
Bermejo to Oran - 30 min taxi, a walkover the bridge border into Argentina, and a strict search.
Oran - a hillbilly town but we managed to get a steak as we had 12hrs to wait for our next bus.
Oran to Tucuman - 10hrs
Tucuman - Off one bus straight onto the next one waiting.
Tucuman to Puerto Igazu - 21hrs, 4 films in a row.
21st May
After 3 nights on buses we arrived and were pretty glad to be in a hotel.
