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Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

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Re: Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

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post #8

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.

And what's the price if you want to stop at all 12 cities listed there?

If that's your actual goal sure.

Re: Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

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post #7

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.

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.

Thanks for explaining that. Had never encountered this concept before.

Re: Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

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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.

Re: Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks for explaining that. Had never encountered this concept before.

I cannot tell if this is sarcasm.

Re: Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

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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.

'nothing better to do' is where all of life's greatest surprises are hiding.

Re: Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

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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.

'nothing better to do' is where all of life's greatest surprises are hiding.

You can also have nothing better to do in rio for 5 days

Re: Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

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post #6

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.

Still exists, without a book to talk about it. Travel is cheap and my lesson is that every sleeping condition is acceptable, provided it’s 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.
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