Our Travels by Bus

We have traveled in buses almost everywhere we’ve gone and some were long and some were short. The longest bus ride was twenty hours and the shortest was two hours. 

We have been on some very nice buses with bed chairs and only three seats per row, and we have also been on a bad bus that smelled, was hot, really crowded, the bathroom was horrible, and when we stopped for a rest stop the “toilets” were a hole in the ground and there were no doors.

 The things I have liked on the buses have been the movies and little boxed snacks with juices, little cookies, and a little bag of crackers. I have liked most of the movies such as the Croods, Pacific Rim, and After Earth. I have not liked some of them that were really violent. On the bus from Arequipa to Cuzco the bus attendant put in a dvd of six really violent revenge movies that lasted for the entire twelve hour bus ride.

The bus terminals in Peru were very loud because most of the people at the ticket stalls were yelling places to go. In Chile they don’t call out the destinations and they were a little less crazy. When we arrived in Santiago for the second time, we couldn’t figure out how to get out of the bus station so we decided to go down an escalator and then there was a giant mall below the bus station. The mall was really confusing and we couldn’t figure out how to get to the metro but we finally found signs for the metro station and found it.

When we are at home in the U.S. we travel by car and plane but here we travel by bus and taxi. I have liked traveling by bus more than car because you can put your stuff in a place where you can get it, there are little bathrooms, your dad gets to sleep with the rest of the family and not drive, and the seats are nicer.

Right now we decided to rent a car for two weeks and visit the lakes district but in all we have traveled 3,750 miles and over 100 hours on buses.