Day 56: Another bus day

We woke up with the knowledge that the majority of our day would be on a singular bus. This allowed us to have very few potential issues of deciding what to do all day. We really liked Cordoba, but other than the walking tour that we did, we would have spent a second day probably all in museums or back to the park. Museums can be a mixed bag; sometimes they are great and a wealth of knowledge and sometimes they are bore you right down to the core. Considering that a lot of the museums were likely to be in Spanish or modern art, I think they would have been more on the bore to the core side. I can't say I've ever been one for modern art, landscape painting maybe a little more. We spent a little while gathering our things and making sure we were ready for the bus journey coming ahead. Our host ordered us a taxi which was very swift in arriving. Chile and Argentina have been like two opposing swings. Chile had good buses but bad taxis, whilst Argentina had overpriced and not great buses but very effective taxis. 

We arrived early to the bus stop so that we could have some breakfast/lunch (it was around 11.30am). This went down a treat whilst the television was showing me how to build fishing baits (I'm now so enlightened). We got to the main bus area 15 minutes before the bus was meant to depart. This was where the waiting began... We kept asking people to no avail: where was our bus? We were in the right area, one other passenger assured us it was just late as he was getting the same bus. He looked like a wizard from Harry Potter so we gave him the highly imaginative name of Professor Cordoba. Just over an hour late, the bus arrived. This was the first time that a bus had arrived late for us. Thankfully the bus was a lot more comfortable this time. We settled into the things that we would do throughout the journey; reading, listening to music and watching some Netflix.  

They came out with lunch around 2pm and dinner at around 9pm. Both were highly edible and went down a treat. The views were mostly underwhelming, never before have I seen such a large area be so flat, this was Belgium on steroids. The sunset was highly impressive over some lakes surrounding Santa Fe. We vaguely considered the prospect of visiting Santa Fe on our travels but eventually decided not to. It looked pleasant enough but without being spectacular. 

To put the distances into perspective, this bus journey was a little over 1400km (875 miles). We looked up the distance from Paris to Barcelona and that wasn't quite 1000km. Argentina is incredibly deceptively large.