Balut Bus
We're going north-west, via Rosario Cordoba and Santiago del Estero, on GreenBus Balut. It's a thirty-hour ride to Jujuy, with only two stops en route. Myvisions of either running into Brad Pitt and Bertolucci on location or beingcrammed in with coca-chewing peasants laden with livestock and provisions turnout to be wrong: this is a modern touring coach. Its number is 100, which, myChinese assistant assures me, is very auspicious. I drag myself up the front tocheck how 'auspiciously' we're doing. We're travelling Argentina style: nostreetlights, no headlights, lots of traffic that shouldn't realy be on anyroad, lots of horn.
巴鲁特巴士
我们要坐绿色巴士巴鲁特从Rosario Cordoba和Santiago del Estero去西北方。去Jujuy的车程有30个小时,途中只停两个站。我预感著会碰到布拉德·皮特和贝托鲁奇位在拍外景或者跟嚼著古柯带著牲口和粮食的农民挤在一起,但事实并非如此:这是一家现代化的旅游客车。它的号码是100。我的中国助手向我保证,这是非常吉祥的。我硬把自己拖到车前去看看我们到低有多"吉祥"。我们正按著阿根廷风格前进:没有路灯,没有车灯,好多根本不该在任何道路上通行的车辆,大量的喇叭声。