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URI Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro
schoen wrote 4 min ago:
I remember Buenos Aires to Porto Alegre (via Foz do Iguaçu) by bus. I
guess that's about 1/4 or 1/3 as far, with somewhat less dramatic
landscapes. Extremely comfortable except for the violent action movies
shown on an overhead TV with sound, even for part of the night.
Edit: but ultimately probably a very different experience because it's
so much less mountainous!
lencastre wrote 25 min ago:
Fantastico!
bloomingeek wrote 27 min ago:
Wow, what an epic looking trip! My brain began planning this out with
my wife and I getting off the bus at a cool looking city and staying a
few days for site seeing.
alliao wrote 40 min ago:
i remember seeing sun beating down on a truck in front of us with 80 or
so residential sized gas tanks just banging on each other for the
entire way from arequipa to lima, fun times. we did cuzco to puno then
loop back to lima. there was news of coach fallen off the road on the
bit from puno to arequipa, but then I was young and eager to explore so
just jumped on anyway with a friend, good times for sure.
kakacik wrote 46 min ago:
This trip goes through remarkable places, I was lucky to experience
quite a few without ever doing such trip in that location.
Uyuni salt plain - magical experience, better than any photos. Climbing
on old rusty train cut into chunks, jumping between wagons. Or sleeping
in salt-cubes-built iglu. Or hiking to 5200m high volcano Tunupa just
next to salt plains.
Sucre - nice colonial feel.
Potosi - evils of colonialism in plain sight. Hard place to swallow.
Also possible to go to one of hundreds mines in the famous hill where
all the silver mines are. There can be some nasty sillica in the air,
beware. But mines look like you would expect in 3rd world - basic,
dangerous, and a stick of dynamite is never too far. If you want to see
effects of high altitude on fertility, local church is a (traumatic)
place to visit.
La Paz - proper high altitude capital, don't be surprised to feel dizzy
when stepping out of plane at 4100m altitude.
Copacabana - I presume the one on Titicaca - recommending visiting
Isola del Sol, talking to locals. Never had a frozen beer in pre-frozen
mug, when outside was -10C and even inside barely 0C, even the foam
froze so had to be chewed.
One thing seemingly skipped since this was more just a regular travel
path - you can ride down on a rented bike Camino de la Muerte near La
Paz - or Yungas death road. In 1 day, you bike from 4700m high frozen
planes down to tropical jungle, on shabby muddy roads cut to properly
vertical slopes, with waterfall falling down your neck. Don't skip
this, even if you are not a seasoned biker. One of those memories for
rest of the days.
jcims wrote 49 min ago:
Iâd always fancied myself a decent driver. Riding in buses across
parts of Peru recalibrated my standards. I couldnât believed what
they could do with those clapped out tour buses, some *truly* skilled
folks at the wheel.
amarant wrote 1 hour 3 min ago:
Reminds me of "The Wrong Way Home" about a guy who did a similar
land-only trip, except from London to Sydney.
I spent a huge part of my teens and early twenties dreaming of doing
the same. These days the mere thought gives me a back ache.
eastbound wrote 6 min ago:
Still exists, without a book to talk about it. Travel is cheap and my
lesson is that every sleeping condition is acceptable, provided
itâs temporary. A friend came to see me in Sydney, from France,
using hitchhiking. He loved Kazhakstan and central Asia, hated
Vietnam (which I loved), and took a flight from Singapore to Pearth.
Western countries are the most boring, apparently.
haunter wrote 1 hour 7 min ago:
DW made a 5 part mini-series about it
URI [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ODFlqURxY
Aboutplants wrote 33 min ago:
Saving this for a rainy day, looks like a great watch. Thanks
xyzelement wrote 1 hour 8 min ago:
Really drives home the blessing of air travel. LATAM offers the same
route for about the same price, 5 hours instead of 118.
I assume the author just had nothing better to do which is fine, but
great to have the other option.
idiotsecant wrote 39 min ago:
'nothing better to do' is where all of life's greatest surprises are
hiding.
IncreasePosts wrote 12 min ago:
You can also have nothing better to do in rio for 5 days
ks2048 wrote 49 min ago:
And what's the price if you want to stop at all 12 cities listed
there?
xyzelement wrote 44 min ago:
If that's your actual goal sure.
kakacik wrote 52 min ago:
when traveling and especially backpacking, the road and the
experiences and people you meet along is the goal, not tackling a
checklist of stuff internet/llms has given you as must-see.
xyzelement wrote 43 min ago:
Thanks for explaining that. Had never encountered this concept
before.
RobRivera wrote 39 min ago:
I cannot tell if this is sarcasm.
stevenfoster wrote 1 hour 21 min ago:
Did something similar but not nearly as long across a good part of
Mexico a few years ago. It was wonderful though one cannot be in a
hurry. I will have to consider your route for a future pilgrimage.
Thank you for sharing it!
mopsi wrote 1 hour 42 min ago:
If you'd like to try something like that from the safety of your home
beforehand:
URI [1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/381780/80_Days/
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