A great plan

Since my flight was delayed by a couple of weeks, now I have some extra time I can spend around here. I wanted to visit Argentina, but a flight to BA would cost me around 500$, and since I am going to spend more time around here, I have to make my budget last for time than I have planned.

So I came with a cheaper plan, fly to Tarija, a flight that takes 50 minutes, costs 65$ and saves me a 20+ hours bus ride, then take 10 hour bus across the border to Salta. In total it would costs me 160$ to get to Salta and then back again to Cochabamba. A much cheaper plan. It is still a 20 hour bus ride from Salta to BA, but I am not planning to get to Buenos Aires. I have been their during my previous visits to Argentina, to Salta on the other hand I have not been yet, I missed during my previous trips, and I heard it is quite nice place. Besides the hot weather there suits me well.

Any way plans don´t always work well in reality; I flew to Tarija this morning, and I am still in Tarija, stuck. Apparently the country people (the peasants), are protesting something, and they have created road blockades all around Bolivia. Tarija seem to have been hit really bad by this, I heard in the news that Tarija is completely unreachable, except by plane. The bus station is full of people waiting with their luggage, stuck , unable to go anywhere.

No body knows how long it is going to take, meanwhile I checked into a hotel by the bus station, and tomorrow morning I will check again at the bus terminal, to see if the blockades have been lifted.