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| The cheapest way to get to Campo Grande, Brazil from Cusco, Peru | |||||||||||||||||||||
Marley Kelly Post Count: 4 Msg: #1 92 days ago, April 23rd 2008 | Hi there! | Just wondering if it's reasonable to want to travel from Cusco Peru to Campo Grande Bazil on super budget. How long would it take as well. I really want to see Iguazu Falls too. I was thinking of either crossing through Bolivia to Campo Grande and then making my way to the falls. I would also like to see Rio and make my way down the coast, eventually going through Uruguay to beunos aires (I'm flying home from there). I have two months to do this all. The main counties I want to hit are Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Usuguay. Any advice on a budget travel route where I'm not on buses for more than 20 hours? Thanks a lot!  Ali Ali Watters Post Count: 2733 Msg: #2 91 days ago, April 23rd 2008 | Yes - through Bolivia will be the cheapest overland route - but if you add up all the hotels, buses, meals etc - a flight might be cheaper... probably not what you're looking for though ;) | Brazil is more expensive than most South American countries at the present time - due to the strong currency - with the exception of Chile. Hope that gives you some ideas. Marley Kelly Post Count: 4 Msg: #3 91 days ago, April 24th 2008 | Thanks for the ideas. I was looking into air passes and trying to get a rough idea of the cost of those. I've read some of them can be annoying because you have to stick to a strict intinerary, but they seem like a good option if you have to cover a lot of ground, like me:). Any suggestions/ideas on those air passes? | As far as cost goes, I'm pretty much trying to make a decision between Brazil and Chile, so the fact that Brazil is cheaper, makes me sway towards visiting there over Chile, among other things. ' Thanks a lot for you help!  KST Kit Taylor Post Count: 34 Msg: #4 91 days ago, April 24th 2008 | I did that many years ago (1967!), although in the other direction. Train -- two trains, actually, across the Mato Grosso from Campo Grande to the Bolivian border. There was -- and, according to posts I've seen, still is -- a train from the border to Santa Cruz, called the "death train." It is now reported to be reasonably comfortable, but in 1967 I was told the most comfortable place was on the roof of the cars, and there was a very cheap flight which I took instead. It was on that flight in an unpressurized DC3 that I found the dental work I'd had done in Rio de Janeiro left me with a pressure sensitive tooth and I got an extremely painful toothache when the place ascended and again when descending. | Bussed from Santa Cruz to Cochabamba, and found out that the altitude that set off the toothache was well within surface altitude in the Andes. Then some sort of truck/bus thing on rails from Cochabamba to La Paz. I don't now recall the exact sequence, but I took some combination of busses and trains from La Paz to Cusco -- maybe a bus to Puno and a train to Cuzco? Don't recall the total time -- but we (my first wife and I) stayed in Cochabamaba a few days and La Paz for a a few days. We had been in Brazil for two years with Peace Corps and would stop by Peace Corps offices wherever we stopped for advice on inexpensive hotels and restaurants. When we first entered Bolivia we struggled to mispronounce Portuguese enough to make it sound like Spanish, but we got the hang of it pretty quickly. The route we took across Bolivia was not our initial plan -- we had hoped to cut through some of the Bolivian Amazon but were advised that route would put us in the same area where the Bolivian army was hunting down Che Guevara. KST Number of Users: 3 | Number of Posts: 4 | ||||||||||||
