Saturday, December 16, 2006

Day 36 15th December 2006, The wheels on the Bus - Buenos Aires to Puerto Madryn, 1,436km

The La China Estancia was 2 hours by taxi back to Buenos Aries where we would board our 18 bus ride for Puerto Madryn. The thought of an 18 hour 1,500km bus ride was not inspiring us with a great deal of excitement causing us to put off our arrival at the bus depot to the last minute. When your in a rush you really notice how heavy your backpacks are and for some reason think that buying the extra large toothpaste to save money made it so heavy.

A bus journey must be about the most boring thing to write about, however I shall do my best

15:00 Bus leaves Buenos Aires on time
20:00 Bus stops for supplies which looked like Indian takeaways
20:50 Bus Bingo

Bored s******s I was only too keen to play bingo, forgetting two things the first was that I am not an 80 year old lady and secondly that I can only count up to ten in Spanish, needless to say I didn´t win the bingo but it did pass a few minutes before dinner was served

21:00 Dinner Served straight from the 80´s in the form of a TV dinner

22:00 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The only other possible note of interest about the bus is found by reviewing its technical specs. The bus comes complete with not just a chemical toilet but a whole chemical bathroom, I was too scared to use it.

• Chassis: Volvo Mod- B12B
• Motor: Volvo Mod- D1ZA
• Brakes: S-CAM con ABS
• Suspension: Electronic (ECS)
• Capacity: 53 passengers
• 4 Flat tv
• DVD
• Stereo Sound
• Frigobar
• Chemical Bathroom

Highlights: Certainly not all the crap romantic comedy's shown on the bus

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