Ferry Puntarenas - Paquera - Puntarenas

The trip from San José to Puntarenas takes about 2 hours, the ferry ride between Puntarenas and Paquera takes about one hour, and from Paquera to Montezuma or Sta. Teresa it's about 1.5 hours. However, the trip from San José to the beach usually takes about ten hours. Mysterious!

IWCRP brings you:
1. A pic of the constantly changing ferry schedule
2. A lottery salesman in Puntarenas
3. A man whose occupation is unknown, Puntarenas
4. Ferry Tambor III
5. The other Ferry
6. Paquera

Update May 07, 2008:

Since it's difficult to find reliable info about the ferry schedule, here they are:

Ferry schedules:

Puntarenas - Paquera:

5.00 am, 7.30 am, 10.00 am, 12.30 pm, 3.00 pm, 5.30 pm, 8.00 pm

Paquera - Puntarenas:

5.00 am, 7.30 am, 10.00 am, 12.30 pm, 3.00 pm, 5.30 pm, 8.00 pm

There are two ferries, one with a capacity of 160 cars, the other one takes 45. Bold text in the schedule above means it's the big ferry.

The ferry company's phone number is 2661-2084

Guarulhos airport

This one is from Guarulhos airport, Sao Paulo. Not the one where they crash planes, the other one. These urinals are designed to take people's minds off of crashing planes.

Buquebus again

From a previously unvisited part of the Buquebus terminal in Colonia, Uruguay.

Viru-Viru International Airport, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Thanks to Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, the most annoying company in the world, we got to spend several hours in the transfer area at Viru-Viru. The name may be fun, but the airport is not. After ten hours of watching scenes from the movie "The Terminal" (the script was no doubt inspired by, or even written on a trip with Lloyd) and silly bolivian commercials, people started to lose their minds all around us.

In the cubicle next to the one on the picture, a man (the same man) was making strange moaning noises both times I visited the WC, with a five hours interval. Could he have been sitting there the whole time, or was this a case of parallel bladder-capacity?

Lloyd Aereo Boliviano - Pope poop

It is extremely diffucult to exaggerate when describing the horrors suffered when flying with Lloyd Aereo Boliviano.

A total delay of some 60 hours on the trip Buenos Aires - Panama - Buenos Aires should be enough to drive any person completely mad.

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An interesting feature about this plane, which took us from Panama to Bolivia, is that the pope (the previous, shaky one) has taken the same flight, which means that His Holiness has no doubt used the WC depicted here. It could even be his brown on the picture!

Holy shit!

Panama Airport

A couple of pics from the Airport in Panama, where we had to stay overnight because the shitheads of Lloyd Air Boliviano couldn´t find the plane we were going with, and didn´t have the brains to tell us before we got to the airport.

It was a nice airport, though, with complementary wheelchairs and a bar. Despite the wheelchairs, however, I have my doubts regarding the wheelchairfriendliness of the elevators.

Blanco Lobo Bus Station, San José

IWCRP partner La Nación gives us this picture today, from the San José-Puerto Jiménes Bus Station.

One of the travellers, Johanna Acevedo, who helped her mother getting on the bus, states that the toilets are disgusting, and they charge 100 colones for a short visit. Furthermore, one runs the risk of being robbed before getting on the bus.

Búquebus

There are boats crossing the Rio de la Plata several times a day. The trip from Buenos Aires to Colonia, Uruguay, takes about three hours. From Colonia, there´s a bus taking you to Montevideo, lasting another two hours. IWCRP gives you pictures from two differnet boats; the nice one (which has pinball machines) and the not so nice one.

Ticabus

The trip from San José, Costa Rica to Panama City lasts no less than 17 hours, including 4 hours at the border. The seats are practically non-reclinable, but the WC functions quite well.

After crossing the border, the bus company spoiled us with the following five films:

• Wrongfully Accused, aka Leslie Nielsen ist sehr verdächtig
• Little Man
• Hot Shots
• Hot Shots 2
• The Animal w/ Rob Schneider

Ticabus

The Ticabus bus station in San José offers its clients a lovely unisex WC.

The yellow on the picture is not mine, nor is the moisture on the seat. I think it´s always like this.

Buenos Aires - Mendoza - Santiago

The 20-hour bus trip from Buenos Aires to Santiago de Chile via Mendoza is one of breath-taking scenery.

Most of the trip nothing is to be seen but the endless Argentinian pampa and its countless cows, but once you get to Mendoza, vineyards pop up everywhere and everything makes sense; cow + wine = a good meal. Or a drunken cow. Or a bad wine.

Passing the majestic Andes mountain range, at one point one can see Aconcagua, which with its 6.962 meters is the highest mountain in the Americas, the highest in the Southern Hemisphere, and the highest peak outside of Asia.

The first picture is from the Buenos Aires-Mendoza bus, the second from the Mendoza-Santiago bus.

2006.

Santiago bus station

Santiago de Chile is officially the worst place I´ve ever been to. Horrendous food, unpleasant people and not a decent bar anywhere. This picture was taken at the bus station shortly after I got the message that all buses out of the country were cancelled the next four days, and seconds before desperately trying to drown myself .

Santiago, 2006

Montpellier Airport

An airport WC in Montpellier, France.

Oct. 2005