Argentinian Bus
Trip Start
Mar 01, 2006
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Trip End
Dec 01, 2007
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Mendoza - Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Sunday, January 28, 2007
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After these few days in Mendoza, in the fine company of Italian, German, and Argentinian characters, it was time to move on to Buenos Aires.
As this was the start of the south-american leg, I could easilly have taken more time in Mendoza and along the way. But... I want to go to Patagonia, and I need to go soon because it's the good season, and then I want to go all over Chile and Argentina and Bolivia and Peru and and and... I don't have enough time!
So back to the leading spirit of this trip: move al ot, see a lot, experience a lot, and decide where to come back to get a bit more of a feel. Anyway staying 2 days or 2 weeks does not make a huge difference, I really prefer to stay a few months somewhere to really start building up habits and relationships.
Exception to that is my stay in Buenos Aires, I have decided I would learn spanish correctly before travelling across south america, and I will, I have to, I would regret it too much if I didn't.
So back to the topic, which is the argentinian bus: overnight buses are practical as they save you accomodation for a night, but more importantly save your time by mixing up sleeping time and travelling time. Obviously that is not so great if you want to see the landscapes, but there are choices to be made.
Over here you can choose different classes of bus travel: semi-cama, cama, or first class.
The semi-cama is like a regular bus, 2 reclinable seats on each side of the central alley. They are good, as the reclinables seats are really reclinable.
The cama is more like business seats in an airplane: there are only three per row, so they are wider, you don't share your armrest with your neighbourgh, and they recline almost to the horizontal.
The upper classes give you a seat that turms into a bed, that loks really comfortable.
I took cama, as there was not much of a price difference with semi-cama, and I wanted to see how it was. However comfortable it was, I did not sleep anyway, just because I could not sleep, as it happens. Bad. But I really enjoyed the comfort, it is not anywhere near the normal traveller standards! There was dvds, a crappy meal, free drinks in the fridge, and did I mention that the seats were very comfortable?
Enough of that, I'll see if I can go back to cheaper seats after that experience (especially when I'll be doing 30 or 40 hours bus journeys)
