The longest Bus Ride Ever...to Puerto Madryn

We got a ticket in an agency, as hitchhikking back up would have taken too long for our plan, but it was really what we wished we could have done. It's cheaper, often as fast, nicer you get to meet people, and safer... you'll see why.

We got up at 5:30 this 21st of nov, and got at the bus stop. However, there was no place left for the three of us to fit in the main bus, and the extremely unpleasant driver told me that Nadja and Alex had to get in a second small bus. We had booked the whole trip with an agency that had oversold tickets and had urgently attritube a small bus for extra customers... But what the agency had not cared of, was the state of the actual second driver..

After an hour ride being pissed because of my driver's behavior toward us, we made a breakfast stop over. Alex and Nadja came out of the van, their face white like snow! Their driver had almost crashed a few times falling totally asleep on the sinous road!!!!

Alex and I tried to talk and complain serioulsy to my driver who for the second time behaved soo badly insulting us!!

But we had to get back each of us in our respective buses. Anxious like crazy alone in the bus I was praying for their stupid driver not to fall asleep again... Surprise! When we got to Rio grande another stop over to change buses, Alex got out from the driver's side!! He had been driving for the second half since their driver was completly asleep apparently due to a hardcore drunk night!!! OUF at least they were safe! We shouted at this totally irresponsible bus Agency that did not really took into consideration such a serious and dangerous situation ( if ever you go there remeber not to pass through Tolkar Viajes, the agency, neither take the Tecni-Austral Buses)!

Well after all this high adrenaline cession, we got into the second part of the trip to Puerto Madryn which came out to be a good compensation to what had happened. We travelled in extremely comfortable buses having huge large seats, with crazy views!! Finally we could rest and enjoy the road toward the pingouins' colony.

Crazy Blog!! Or Crazy me...

I have not written in this blog for now soo long!!! Such a shame... But the blog is chassing me and tells me every day to finish writing the story of this incredible trip I've passed through!

So, since I still have some time before I have to get completly back into my student life (my classes will start again on the beginning of February) I crazily decided to finish illustrating and commenting my Americalatina experience even though it has already ended a bit more than a month ago.

I was about to talk of how, after the crazy "W" trek we did in the most Southern Chilean National Park, Alex Nadja and I tryied to get to Ushuaia!

We decided to take a bus from Puerto Natales to Punta Arena since our adventure spirit had been fullfill by our trekking and camping expedition. When we got there, the bus prices to Ushuaia confirmed our previous research...too expensive to get there. Well, it did take that long for our intrepid spirit to get the idea of hitchhikking and for real this time!

We organized ourselves properly and as it was getting dark and hope was drastically shutting down a huge American Truck, stopped and accepted us three in his spacious cabin. The driver was incredibly nice and interesting, and was going in the good direction...Punta Delgada the passing place by boat tocross the Magellan detroit and land in the Mystic Tierra del Fuego.We even got to sleep in this truck as the sea was too rough and we had to wait till the middle of the night to cross the detroit.

Finally after, taking 7 different vehicule, sometimes leaving us in no man land, in the middle of incredible flat and deserted landscape, we could reach this surrealistic destination of every "globe trotteurs" dream...Ushuaia!

As said in many guide books and comments you can read...The city in itself has nothing special. But the location and the surroundings are still giving something irrealistic and fantastic to this place.

We did not stay very long and soon took a bus ride back up toward Buenos Aires...