January 5, 2013

If 6 is not enough, what about 13?!

By Viv_downfromthisdoor

DAY 35

All in all I have found Argentina to be a more complicated country to travel in than I had thought.. So after about a month spent here, I was quite ready to leave and seeing more of Chile, which had made a better impression on me!Argentina was however apparently not quite as ready to let me go…

So our 6-hour-long bus trip from Bariloche to Puerto Montt (our Chilean destination) turns into a 13 hour-long adventure by bus! 😛 The reason behind this nightmare was the total destruction of the nearby border between Argentina and Chile, which ‘happened’ to burn down on New Year’s Eve for ‘unknown reasons’…Ehm, ehm, let’s not go into further speculations here, shall we?!

Whatever the reasons and the details, we have to drive a much longer way to reach another border, which of course is dealing with too much work and is a total mess!

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What do you do when the border building is overcrowded? You move your ‘office’ outside, of course! 😛

To make a long ride shorter, we finally made it to Puerto Montt at 3.15AM, found the bus station closed down and a totally dead town. With some efforts, though, we finally get  to reach our guesthouse a short time later and finally collapsed into our beds by 4am! Ironically, this B&B is probably one of the nicest we have stayed at so far! 😛

About Viv_downfromthisdoor

Thirtysomething soul originally from Italy, but cosmopolitan at heart. With a passion for foreign countries, languages and cultures. Now ready to travel the world together with another wandering soul. View all posts by Viv_downfromthisdoor
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