To travel from Argentina to Chile, I used the bus system. However North America has a lot to learn from the bus system in South America. When traveling by Bus in South America, particularly in Argentina and Chile, you will quickly learn that the buses are much better than those crappy Greyhounds you travel with in the USA. Here they serve you food, drinks, and the seats actually recline into a sleeping position. Often than not it was hard to forget that I wasn’t actually flying on a plane.

So far I traveled by bus from Argentina, Buenos Aires to Mendoza, through the mountains to Santiago, and then to Valpraiso by the Pacific Ocean in Chile.

Overall you will not be dissapointed if you decide to travel by bus through South America. Rather the real dissapointment would be trying that same travel through North America (unless traveling through a chartered bus).

My Journey By Bus Through the Andes