Moving Around Argentina

If you decide to travel Argentina and move around this amazing country, you should know the following peculiarities of the transport system in this country. The cheapest kind of transport for moving around Argentina is the train. But you should be aware of advantages and drawbacks of trains during your travel Argentina. Moving around Argentina by train, you assuredly visit the most part of the best places in Argentina, but during your journey you will face with such problems as frequent delays and breakdowns. Though there is a lot of trains around Buenos Aires, they are always crowded, because of the cheap fear. If you are choosing among the train tours in Argentina, we advise you the Tren a las Nubes (Train to the Clouds) train tour, during which you visit the province Salta that is located in the north-west of Argentina.

Moving around Argentina by bus is more comfortable than by train and cheaper than by car. You should buy your ticket several days before your travel at the city bus stations. The center of bus system is Buenos Aires' Terminal de Omnibus Retiro. The price of one ticket is $3 per hour of trip approximately. The network of regional bus service is wider than train tours, so you'd better choose bus in order to travel Argentina from town to town. A colectivo is a city bus, a micro is town-to-town bus. But these terms are used in Buenos Aires, and may change their meaning in provincial areas. If you have to travel a distance longer than 200km, in order to go sightseeings and admire all the attractions of Argentina, the bus service offers you food on board, and you also may rest in the camas (seats, that can be install horizontally)


You can hire a car throughout Argentina, but you should know that this kind of transport is more expensive than buses or trains. So, moving around Argentina by car during 3 days will cost you $179.40 for Peugeot 206 3/5dr, or  $238.05 - $431.25 for Volkswagen Golf 5dr. You should be very cautious, while moving around Argentina by car, because the highway traffic is very chaotic in this country. Running red lights are ignored as well as speed limits. The highways are only in the big cities, while gravel and dirt roads are all over the country. So your driving skills have to be excellent to travel Argentina by car. There are controles policiales ("police checkpoints") in the boarders of every province. They may stop you in order to check your registration papers and drivers' licenses. The police may also demand subornation for passage. So drive slowly when you pass by the controles policiales.