Buenos Aires to Sucre

On Friday I left Buenos Aires to begin my travels. I took a bus from BsAs to the border with Bolivia. It was a 26 hour trip but it was not bad at all. It was interesting to see the variety of views throughout northern Argentina, from flat lands to what looked like jungle coverd mountians. That part was quite beautiful. Sometimes I seem to forget how many diferent kinds of landscapes are contained within the country. Arrived in La Quiaca (Argentine side) on Saturday afternoon, where I walked across and did all the paperwork and payments to enter Bolivia. Villazon (on the Bolivian side) looked like Tijuana to me, I guess lots of border towns have a run down look to them. Got a bite to eat and then got on a bus from there to Sucre. It was a 12 hour trip on a small bus or large van full of about 40 people. It was cold, cramped and unbelievable bumpy ride. Everyone told me that busses in Bolivia are and experience but I really had no idea. Most of it was on windy dirt roads that went up and down the mountians. After surviving that I feel like any sort of trip will be not so bad. Arrived in Sucre around dawn and had some trouble getting into a hostel but another group of travelers helped me out and I got to sleep from dawn til about noon in Sucre.