Villazon was a bustling town, made prosperous for being cheaper than its Argentinian neighbour La Quiaca therefore more popular for thrifty tourists. Avoiding the numerous shoe, textile and cake shops that lined the route to the border, we changed our remaining Bolivianos into Pesos and completed the crossing, waiting for 30mins on the Argentinian side for our entry stamp (strangely, no entry form though - first country not to have one). We followed the straggling line of tourists walking to the bus station in La Quiaca and were dismayed to find that the next bus to Salta (that we could see - the station was rather a melee of offices and locals) did not leave until 8pm - in 4 hours time. This was doubly disappointing as the journey was only scheduled to be 7-8 hours
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