Our trip from Santiago to Mendoza was one of the best examples of Latin-America being on the "Latin time". Our bus was supposed to leave at 9.50 pm from Terminal del Sur. First of all the counter told us the bus will leave from the station 40 to 49. So could be whichever. The station was so overcrowded that you couldn't basically move, walk or stop anywhere. There were buses of different companies coming in and leaving the station every second. It was pretty chaotic. There was no El Rapido bus on time, at least we hoped there wasn't as it was quite hard to be sure when you don't know from where the bus is gonna go exactly. It got 10, then 10.15, we got a bit worried. There were some gentlemen trying to organize the masses of people yelling something into the loud speaker. Then again they had no idea about some El Rapido bus. "If it comes, it comes, then we'll know", they said. When it was 10.30 we were definitely worried. I went back to the counter ...