After we came back from Easter Island, we spent the night in Santiago and then boarded the first of two buses to get us to Buenos Aires. This bus brought us across the Chilean-Argentinian border at Los Horcones and to Mendoza, Argentina.
This border crossing wasn’t filled with nearly as much pretense as our crossing into Chile (everyone said it would be super-easy), but it wasn’t all smooth sailing:
- We spent three hours of the eight-hour bus ride waiting at the border (where it was cold, a pretty high altitude (so I got a bit of a headache), and there was NOTHING to do but wait.
- One of the women on our bus had about 46 pairs of shoes and 12 sweaters with her, and we waited an hour for her to get finished with customs. Eventually, our bus just left without her – we heard through the grapevine that she had to pay taxes and some fines for all of the import duties she had tried to evade.
So that was our border crossing. Everyone said it would be easy, but it turned out a little more painful than we expected. After we got to Mendoza, we hopped on our 18-hour bus bound for Buenos Aires….
Click on the below photo to see the rest of them from around Los Horcones:
