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Bye bye Baños
My stay in Baños, Ecuador was scattered with the regular sound of marching bands and deafening fireworks; 6:00 am wake-ups from drums and trumpets, heart stopping bangs. The town was celebrating the...
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A bumpy ride between Baños and Riobamba
The bus to Riobamba leaves Baños behind, climbing upwards along dusty, pitted roads with steep, deep drops into the rocky ravines below. Chunks of the road have fallen away leaving jagged, earthy...
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Bussing about Ecuador
There doesn’t seem to be a central database for bus travel in Ecuador and I found it difficult when researching times and costs and journey duration, so here’s a rough guide of some of the journeys...
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Waking up in Peru: night border crossing from Ecuador to Peru
Dawn broke and the immediate comparisons with Ecuador were the colour palette and landscape: where southern Ecuador had been about lush hills and mountains covered in rich, green vegetation, the...
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Bussing about Peru
Imagine a bus with loads of leg room, a comfy reclining seat, hot meals, regular drinks and smartly dressed hosts and hostesses… no, don’t imagine being on an airplane, imagine a double decker sleeper...
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It’s a long, long way back to Quito
I was sitting on a Cruz del Sur bus in the downstairs VIP area feeling a little bit pukish after eating my dessert, a fluffy, overly sweet slice of chocolate roll. And I also felt pretty zombiefied....
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Bussing about New Zealand
If hitchhiking isn’t your thing and you haven’t hired or bought a car for your travels through New Zealand, then bussing it is the next best option. The two most used companies are InterCity and Naked...
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Brazil to Bolivia by bus (and an apology to Paraguay)
I laughed. There was nothing else for it. The bus was truly a heap of crap and I was going to be on it for at least the next 22 hours. Oh joy. Would I even make it to Bolivia? … Continue reading →
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World Nomad’s Travel Writing Scholarship 2012
To link in with the previous post on travelling by bus from Brazil to Bolivia through Paraguay, here is a short piece that I submitted to the World Nomad’s Travel Writing Scholarship 2012 competition:...
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Bus travel in Bolivia that I’d really recommend
MAYBE I WAS JUST GLAD to be getting out of Pucara and away from the prospect of a marriage of convenience that would have seen me living small, Bolivian village life, running three rental houses and...
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