Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Bus, Micro & Shared Taxi
The full-service
bimodal terminal
(
348-8482; terminal fee B$3)
, the combined long-
distance bus and train station, is 1.5km east of the center, just before the third
anillo
at the
end of Av Brasil.
The main part of the terminal is for
flotas
(long-distance buses) and the train; on the
other side of the tunnel is the
micro
(minibus) terminal for regional services. International
routes have offices at the left-hand end of the main terminal as you enter. Most
flotas
leave in the morning before 10am and in the evening after 6pm. Taking a series of con-
necting
micros
or taxis can be a faster, if more complicated way, of reaching your destina-
tion, rather than waiting all day for an evening
flota
.
To the Jesuit missions and Chiquitania,
flotas
leave in the morning and early evening
(7pm to 9pm).
Micros
run throughout the day, every two hours or so, but only go as far as
Concepción.
Smaller
micros
and
trufis
(collective taxis or minibuses that follow a set route) to re-
gional destinations in Santa Cruz department leave regularly from outside the old bus ter-
minal and less regularly from the
micro
platforms at the bimodal terminal. To Buena Vista
(B$23, two hours), they wait on Izozog (Isoso), near the old bus terminal. To Samaipata
(B$30, three hours),
trufis
leave on the opposite side of Av Cañoto, about two blocks from
the old bus terminal. To Vallegrande (B$60, six hours)
trufi
departures are from the
Plazuela Oruro on the third
anillo
.
DESTINATION
COST (B$)
DURATION (HR)
Camiri
30
5-6
Cochabamba
old road 54-110; new road 66-120 8-10
Concepción
35
7
La Paz
old road 85-170; new road 95-18015-23
Quijarro
70
12
San Javier
30
6
San José de Chiquitos50
5
San Matías
150
20
Sucre
80-110
15-25
Tarija
90-115
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