Quick question...bus trips.

kikolina0920 says on Aug 17, 2008, 15:02:

MDE-BOG; aprox 8 hours
MDE-CTG: aprox 12 hours

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bigtexas1974 says on Aug 17, 2008, 15:05:

Gracias!

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bigtexas1974 says on Aug 17, 2008, 15:14:

Oops...one more thing...approximate prices? I don't do the bus thing very often.

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mranderson says on Aug 17, 2008, 15:17:

I thought mde-bog was more like 9 or 10 hours. At least that´s how long it took me. I think it was about 40k pesos or something like that.

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Papi de Alejo says on Aug 17, 2008, 16:13:

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joelg says on Aug 17, 2008, 16:32:

i did the medellin - cartagena bus one way. awful experience. very little highway, just "state roads" and constant curves, stop and go. bus was freezing, a/c on full blast and couldn't close certain vents. took about 14 hours. arrived exhausted and lost a day of vacation catching up on sleep.

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mariacvetanoski says on Aug 18, 2008, 07:22:

how many hours of a bus trip is it from bogota to cali?

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bigtexas1974 says on Aug 18, 2008, 07:23:

Thanks everyone...

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manINred says on Aug 18, 2008, 07:26:

The thing with bus trips is that they are by far the cheapest way of travelling. I always just pop a sleeping pill and take the night buses (unless you're in the south of Colombia... Huila/Cauca/Narino territory, then travel by day) and you sleep the whole journey. You can always get discounts if you ask.

But sleeping pills are the key. Sometimes they're fun too, I would halucinate off them occasionally as I drifted off to sleep, lol!

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bigtexas1974 says on Aug 18, 2008, 09:33:

hahaha yeah... I get really motion-sick, so the key for me is to sit in the front. I thought about getting some pills to help them, then maybe combine that with sleeping pills. Great idea!

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Gator says on Aug 18, 2008, 10:04:

I would add some ear plugs to mute those God-awful movies.

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Bogotá/Cali roughly 12 hours.

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mranderson says on Aug 18, 2008, 11:18:

If you get motion sickness then don´t take a long bus trip in colombia. Sometimes sitting up front doesn´t make a difference because they have a door up there and you can´t see out the front of the bus. Maybe you´d be better off in the back next to the bathroom.

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bigtexas1974 says on Aug 18, 2008, 12:20:

Uhhhh back next to the bathroom is the worst, can't see anything and just sitting in a moving tube! Makes me sick just THINKING about it! I have had luck when sitting in the front row, but GETTING the seat is hard especially when its a company that doesn't issue seat numbers.

Looks like I need to travel Medellin-Bogota-Medellin the first week of November, and without any specials on flights my ass is gonna have to hack this bus thing again...que pereza!

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