Sometimes it’s the little things. We wanted to get a bus card, for getting to our next hike, and for getting to the bus station for the overnight bus to Mendoza. You can’t pay with cash on a bus, only card. Now, there are two types of card you can get, a local one (easier to find) or a national one, the Sube card. Finding the sube card turned out to be hard. We asked in several shops, went round and round for about 40 minutes, before eventually going into a likely looking shop (which didn’t say it sold them), and asking. BOOM!, a sube card. The man was sitting on a goldmine of unadvertised sube cards. It’s nice having enough Spanish to ask for and understand directions (well done Maaike there), buying stuff etc. Learning basic Spanish really is essential for South America, even with the advent of Google Translate.
Anyway, got the card, got out to the bus station to book our tickets to Mendoza. Realised we’d forgotten our passports (for some reason needed for booking internal trips), and headed back. Eventually booking online ;)
Still, a massive victory in getting the bus card, finding the right bus, travelling on the bus… Sometimes, it really is the little things :)
Michelle
March 5, 2016 at 12:43 pm
Nice! That is satisfying. Though if you are anything like me a situation like that is often rapidly followed by a smugness downfall such as getting on the wrong bus and ending up lost. Though the happiness comes back when you get yourself unlost…☺