What's worse than a 19 hour bus ride?
Well, if you've read the title to this blog post, you can probably guess, hehe.
At hour 19.5, we finally pulled into some sort of a parking lot. "Great", I thought, "we're finally here!" And not a moment too soon: It was after 2 p.m.; the boys had been awake since about 6:30 a.m., and all the homework for the day was complete, and everyone's electronics were out of power.
Alas, it appeared we were NOT yet in Salta... no, we had pulled into a road stop restaurant at a town about 175 km outside of Salta for lunch. There were still TWO MORE HOURS to our destination!!!
We took advantage of the half hour break to get out, stretch our legs, and gobble down a little chicken and rice (I had a bean salad). Lunch was free; our Spanish was too poor to figure out if this was part of Balut's bus service, or if they were feeding us due to the 3-hour delay. In any case, we did not complain.
Well, if you've read the title to this blog post, you can probably guess, hehe.
At hour 19.5, we finally pulled into some sort of a parking lot. "Great", I thought, "we're finally here!" And not a moment too soon: It was after 2 p.m.; the boys had been awake since about 6:30 a.m., and all the homework for the day was complete, and everyone's electronics were out of power.
Alas, it appeared we were NOT yet in Salta... no, we had pulled into a road stop restaurant at a town about 175 km outside of Salta for lunch. There were still TWO MORE HOURS to our destination!!!
We took advantage of the half hour break to get out, stretch our legs, and gobble down a little chicken and rice (I had a bean salad). Lunch was free; our Spanish was too poor to figure out if this was part of Balut's bus service, or if they were feeding us due to the 3-hour delay. In any case, we did not complain.
How we got through those final two hours on the bus, I don't know, but somehow we did it, and suddenly, there was Salta!
We checked into our BnB, plugged in our devices to charge, and set off for the archaeological museum to see three perfectly preserved Inca children from the pre-columbian period, who had been found in a volcano nearby.