GIRAMERICANA | Of the day of 25 hours
Hello!! Here we continue telling you more about our trip! In this opportunity..
La Quiaca, Argentina - Villazón, Bolivia
If you read the previous post you will know that from San Salvador de Jujuy, on October 8 at 7.45hs we take the bus to La Quiaca.
As informative data to potential travelers, the cost of the ticket was $ 200 Argentine c / u (US $ 5.2). Take this data with tweezers, since there is not much stability in terms of prices in Argentina, but maybe it will work.
After approximately 5 hours, we were already in our last destination on Argentine soil! La Quiaca is a town on the border with Bolivia.
When we arrived, with hunger, we saw ourselves in the following situation: we did not have enough cash, we only had $ 30Ars (maybe we would have reached to buy a crumb sandwich or some fruits, not much more than that) and it cost us a Little find a place where we can order a lunch and pay with debit.
Luckily, we got it and we could move on to the next emotion: WE WERE ABLE TO CROSS BOLIVIA !!!
It was a very simple procedure, for the schedule we did not even have to stand in line, at the window they sealed our passports (from any country that is part of the Mercosur, it is enough to show the national identity card) and then we had to put our backpacks in a scanner to prove that we do not transport anything illegal, cross a bridge and ... Welcome to Villazón - Bolivia.
Migratory registry of Bolivia (in Argentina you can not take pictures)
After crossing, the time of our cell phones was updated. That's crazy!!! In Argentina it was 4:00 pm, and 50 meters later (if the border crossing has that length), it was 3:00 pm. It was like going back an hour, walking forward. The opportunity to take more time That day, that border, gave us a day of 25 hours.
Plaza 6 de Agosto, Villazón. Dani looking at the cell phone, having all these thoughts about the time and the hours of the day
Now, without counting the houses of relatives or friends to stay, facing new culture, is that the adventure began. The first thing we did when crossing, was to exchange dollars for Bolivian pesos. So you know, we set ourselves the goal of spending US $ 1000 per country (when we finish touring Bolivia we will tell you how we went with this goal, and we will even make a detail of expenses if someone plans to make a similar trip). Thus, in Villazón we changed U $ S500 to 3450Bs, with the change to 6.90Bs for each dollar.
Controlling
Some Bolivian bills
As the bus that we had to take to Sucre left at 8:00 pm, we had time to travel a little through the city of Villazón. Being a border city there are many places, sales stalls and markets everywhere. We made some purchases, a ne tripod 20Bs, two sets of cutlery + a cover to take them 33Bs (we hung in to bring from our houses), two books 60Bs (faithful companions in long trips or from Paraguayan hammock in the shade), etc. . All these, avoidable expenses, that serve as "tips" for those who are still at home building their backpacks to go on a trip.
In addition to other justifiable and necessary expenses, food and water.
Here are the proofs
When the sun began to fall, we took a taxi to the bus terminal that charged us 10Bs. This is also an avoidable expense if in spite of the weight of the backpack you are willing to walk 2Km approximately, it is not far, and if you start the walk early so it is not done at night before you arrive.
When we arrive, we buy the tickets to Sucre. One of the details that caught our attention, because it is not the same in Argentina, is that each transport company has spokespersons who announce their destinations to screams, and they even go looking for you to sell you tickets; Another detail is that they charge "terminal use", either a manager located at the door that connects the terminal with the bus boarding platforms, or when you are inside the bus. In Villazón we pay 2Bs each.
Taking some mates at the bus station of Villazón
This has been all in today's post. Hopefully you have enjoyed. We will continue climbing on the destinations we met in Bolivia, and also videos to Dtube !!
*** Kevin and Dani ***
*** We are fulfilling a dream, the GIRAMERICANA is to travel much of the American continent ***
Those photos bring back a ton of memories for me! My girlfriend and I entered Bolivia the same way back in June.. I didn't have all my entry documents in order, but the border guy sent me in and told me to get it sorted in Villazon then meet him back at the border in three hours, but it was 6 AM at this point, so there was only like a thirty minute window where I could find somewhere with wifi and a printer to get it all sorted (a pay-by-the-hour sex hotel of all places). It was crazy. I recognize that park too.. we sat there a while because some sort of children's festival was going on with parades and music. We also slept in that bus station one night on our return to Argentina-- it was literally freezing in there!
Anyway, I imagine you're heading up to Salar de Uyuni... if so, have fun! It's fucking amazing!
Such an awesome trip you guys are having! Thank you so much for sharing it with us :)
I found your post because @matkodurko featured you in his Pay it Forward Curation Contest entry; please feel free to join us with an entry of your own next week! We'd love to see you there :)
I've also submitted it to c-squared; hopefully they stop by to show their appreciation as well :)
Great!! Thank you @lynncoyle
This is such an awesome post! I've long wanted to spend some time in South America. (I discovered mate for myself when studying Paraguay. I've been hooked ever since!)
I found you thanks to @matkodurko's entry for the Pay it Forward Curation Contest. Keep up the great work!
Thank you @viking-ventures!!
Hey there guys!
I just came across your posts and they are toootally underappreciated! So I've shared it in so called Pay it Forward Curation HERE sooo let's hope more people will show up here :)
Ah and btw, you can use 5 tags, not just 4 :)
done ;-)
Wohoo. thx! 2 weeks ago, I discovered post with 0.00 rewarda and it got up to 1.5 :) Wondering how will this one go :)
Hi @matkodurko, thank you very much for your good energies !! Hopefully in this way we can reach a greater number of people!!
Make sure that next time u use those tags @trincowski pointed out :) That should help a ton! :)
Hello there. This is a fine and lovely travel report. I would suggest you use the tags #travelfeed and #archisteem, to increase the visibility of this article.
Both tags are for travel related articles. This one fits perfectly.
PS: I have found your post because @matkodurko featured you in the Pay It Forward Contest
Keep up with the good work.
Hello @trincowski, thank you very much for your advice! We will add those labels in the next articles
Really interesting information I found here @wilkynson 😉 you should the tags that the commenter above👆 mentioned. Your information also worth for the world travellers, anyway.. I found your post through @matkodurko entry post in the pay it forward contest this week 😉 keep steeming and I want to see how' the adventure in Bolivia going. Stay healthy and safety.
Hi @cicisaja, thanks for your words!! You can see our other travel articles on our blog. We love writing the chronicles of this adventure, and we also have videos of the places we visit.
We are trying to subtitle them in English so that they have more scope in the community. If you @cicisaja @trincowsi @matkodurko know of any application that we can use to achieve it, we will be grateful for the information.
Uhmm.. for english subtittle? I don't really know an application to make it, need to check on or asking somebody elses from IT to do that.
I've never made any videos myself. But I hope you'll keep sharing that too.
Thank you anyway!!
found you because @matkodurko featured you in this week's Pay it Forward Curation Contest. Keep up the great work! @pifc
This post was shared in the Curation Collective Discord community for curators, and upvoted and resteemed by the @c-squared community account after manual review.
Nice post @wilkynson! Here to support your post, after @matkodurko entered it in our PIFC contest.