Border Crossing: Argentina into Paraguay

My trip is winding down pretty soon. It’s been about 5 months out here in Latin America and it’s time to get back home…

It has been one hell of a trip. An adventure the whole way thru. You can plan so much for a trip, but it’s always those strange occurrences that happen that makes traveling such an adrenaline rush… Where will be the next Bolo and Latinstylez adventure? Here’s a hint: somewhere warm, in Asia, beaches, and culture… If you thought Southeast Asia, you guessed right… All subject to change though!

Now back to the border story…. We were in Cordoba, Argentina sad to leave but we had to go… Def would like to spend more time in this city. It has a lot to offer including a young vibrant college aged population. Perfect for sarging

This border crossing we hoped would be simple… We had to make a stop in Resistencia before heading to the Paraguay border. We already got our visa. We had to wait in a long line in Buenos Aires to do it, but we did. It also cost us 65 bucks…

Preliminaries:

Get the bus ticket the day before. Well, that never got done. We forgot to bring our passports then when we went back I forgot to bring for the second time. Not only that we got into this huge fat guys cad who took us for a ride. I mean for a ride that ended up costing us 20 pesos and a trip to the ghetto. Who knew what this guy had planned, but it was a ride in the shady part of town…

¨Este no es el lugar adonde que tenemos que ir señor.¨ I told the cab driver. He looked surprised look at the number on the business card for the hotel again and said he made a mistake. ¨Ustedes estan en un lugar peligroso ahora.¨ Well why the hell would you take us there in the first place cab driver. Ahh what a headache 20 pesos later we were back and I got my passport for the bus ride.

But before that happened, I had to get change because the banks here only dispense 100 peso bills per transaction. Cabs don’t usually carry this amount and I don’t trust them. As we are walking out, Bolo says something to me in English. Uh ok a cop comes around the corner and asks for our documents. ¨Dammit¨I think to myself. We are stuck there waiting as they call it in. I was making sure they were legit cops as I have heard in South America there can be pretend cops who try to steal from you…

They call us in and we are good to go… Thank goodness! One more thing to do get the bus ticket. We show up to the bus station and had the bum who opened the door for us his 1 cent peso and head inside. But to find out something horrible… Our bus office was close… Until tomorrow! What a day is all I can say… Words can´t describe it… I am so tired right now my eyes feel like they are going to fall asleep!

The bus ride would run from 12 in the afternoon till 6 in the morning. We wanted to go the whole way through. No stopping overnight… Here we come!

Bus Ride:

Everything was smooth sailing the next day to Paraguay… The bus was non stop with only one stop near the border of Argentina. My main concern was the border after our problem in the Huaquillas border I did not know what to expect. Well, it was smooth sailing… Everything went well and I exchanged cash and it wasn’t counterfeit!

Total bus time: 20 hrs

Dead tired…

Wanna know what I thought about Paraguay? Next post to come!!