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*Villazon - La Quiaca
You can reach Villazon from Uyuni or Potosí by the road. The border crossing is right between the two cities, near the bridge that crosses the river. While leaving Bolivia you will be asked the paper they gave you entering the country. Entering Argentina a police officer may open your backpack and ask a few questions. You are allowed to enter Jujuy the northerner state of Argentina with 500g of coca leaves. They are legal in the two states of Jujuy and Salta in Argentina. Villazon is quite a big city you'll find anything in the market there. The city of La Quiaca is much smaller and you can cross it walking, leaving towards the south with the road nine that crosses the country till [[Buenos Aires]].
===To/From [[Brazil]]===
* Cobija – Brasileia
Hitchhiking in Bolivia to the border is quite easy. Just be careful from muddy roads.
If it gets rainy many vehicles will struggle to cross the way.
Hitchhiking in Brazil to the border is a bit more difficult but possible.
If you came from Peru hitchhiking usually takes a very short time.
But if you coming from other places it can be a bit more challenging,
but certainly possible.
The crossing between this two cities is very easy.
They are separated by a river that have many bridge crossings.
You will almost never be asked anything when you cross.
You can go from Brazil to Bolivia with barely anybody talking to you.
As the rumors say, You can spend the day in the other side for the day,
But at the evening legally you should go back to the side where you are stamped.
Usually nobody will check either way.
If you wish to cross the border and get stamped you should search for the Immigration on both side.
There are set in Brazil at -11.029337,-68.740088 (Google Maps) and in Bolivia at -11.026769,-68.752186 (Google Maps).
It’s important to get stamped also in the country that you are leaving in order to avoid fines in case you ever come back. Theoretically if you leave a country without getting stamped they consider it like you never left. And when you wish to enter again the country in the future they will charge you for any other day pass your visa time until the date you re-entered.
The fine in Bolivia for example is 28 Bolivianos (about 4 US Dollars 2022) a day of over staying.
If you came back to the country before your visa expired you shouldn’t have any problem.
* Guaraja-mirim – Guayaramerin
Hitchhiking in Bolivia to the border is quite easy. Just be careful from muddy roads.
If it gets rainy many vehicles will struggle to cross the way.
Hitchhiking in Brazil to the border is a bit more difficult but possible.
You can freely cross between the two cities, Guaraja mirim and Guayaramerin.
The crossing costs 13 Brazilian reals or 20 Bolivian Bolivianos (true for July 2022).
It takes only few short minutes to cross when the boat leaves.
People say that there is some boats on the river that will charge even less.
If you wish to continue your travels legally beyond the city in the other country you crossed to you should get your passport stamped.
For exiting Brazil you should go to the immigration office which is located not so close to the port, In "Justiça Federal Subsecção De Guajará Mirim" (-10.783061,-65.317563 Google maps).
They are open from 8:00 -18:00 but not every day.
I came on a sunday and had to wait for another day. I'm not sure if it's every sunday or that I just had bad luck.
The proccess over there was quite easy.
No papers or documents were asked beside my passport.
In about 15 minutes got my exit stamp and continued.
For entering Brazil I'm assuming you'll have to go the same place, but maybe good you ask the people in the Brazilian port. The taxi drivers usually know.
In Bolivia the immigration office is just where the boat drops you.
They ask for photo copies of your passport and the stamp of leaving Brazil.
They also want your covid vaccination passport two dosages or a negative Covid test from the last days in paper (on your phone does not count).
You need just one of the two. (Again true for July 2022)
There is a photo copy in the coffee place next by. It costs 1 Boliviano per page. But they don't have a printer, in case you want to print some documents from your phone.
I paid a motor taxi to take me to a place with a printer.
Passed them the Covid passport with Bluetooth and came back.
Cost me 11 Bolivianos in total, 10 for the taxi 1 for the paper.
Later they asked me for my phone and where do i go.
Told "La Paz" and my number and got 30 days visa which i can extend in other migration offices when time comes.
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