We packed up our gear, had breakfast and checked out of the
hostel by our check out time of 10am in preparation for our last bus ride in
South America, a 24 hour trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We saved the longest bus trip to last! The
check out time was annoying as our bus didn’t depart until 1pm and the hostel
didn’t have a luggage storage facility.
We decided to go straight to the bus station and went to the restaurant
there. We had a cup of tea, some fries
and of course some empanadas. We had to
have some empanadas just before we left Argentina (we ate just before we
departed as we had a feeling we were not being fed on this bus). At 1pm we boarded the bus and began our
journey. This was of course interrupted
10 minutes into the trip with a stop at the Argentinean border crossing, and
then for the first time, we stopped at the Brazilian immigration where we
received a stamp into Brazil! We have officially arrived in Brazil!
The bus stopped in Foz Iguazu, a city very close to the
Brazilian border, to drop off a few passengers.
This bus had originally come from Buenos Aires and was continuing all
the way to Rio. We then continued on our
way north. This bus was not comfortable
as it had bad suspension, I felt a bad sleep was on its way. As we drove through Brazil we were surrounded
by sugar cane fields, they stretched for miles!
We also drove through multiple cities.
About 8.30pm we stopped for half an hour for dinner. The restaurant was designed for bus stopovers
but the prices were not too bad. Here we
had our first taste of a Brazilian tradition, a pay per kg meal. This is where you fill your plate from a
buffet style situation and then get the plate weighed. Mine weighed close to half a kg while Ann’s
weighed about half of mine. It is
difficult to gauge how much your plate will weigh as we had never weighed our
dinner plates before! My plate was filled to the edges and Ann’s was pretty
full too. One highlight was the
vegetables. We noticed in Argentina,
although they have the most amazing meals, especially steak, they did lack on
the vegetables. We did stack our plates
with these. Overall the total cost of
the two meals was about $24 Reals (about $NZ17). Good value.
We then continued on our journey to Rio.
The movies played on this bus were good, only because they were all in English
with Spanish subtitles.
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