Getting to and away from Pamplona

Transportation

By Lorraine Caputo

The Pamplona bus terminal is at the end of Calle 4, one block past the bridge, across from the Policia Nacional base. On the main level of the station are bathrooms, snack shops and phones; on the upper level are restaurants.

To Silos: Extra Rápidos Los Motilones—7 a.m., 11 a.m., 4 p.m., $3.70, 1.5-2 hours; last return 1 p.m.

To Cácota: Extra Rápidos Los Motilones—hourly 7 a.m.-4 p.m., $2.65, 40 minutes; last return4 p.m.

To Chitagá: Extra Rápidos Los Motilones—hourly 7 a.m.-4 p.m., $3.70; last return 4 p.m.

To Málaga: Cotrans—8 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 5 p.m., $11.55, 5 hours. Concorde—6 p.m., 8 p.m., $11.55, 5 hours.

To Capitanejo: Cotrans—2 p.m., 5 p.m., $13.70, 6.5 hours. Concorde—6 p.m., 8 p.m., $13.70, 6-7 hours.

To Cúcuta: Several companies, every half-hour, $4.20-6.35, 2.5 hours.

To Bucaramanga: Bolivariano—hourly 11 a.m.-6 p.m., $11.55, 5 hours.

To El Banco: Omega—8 p.m., $37, 12 hours.

To Bogotá (some go by way of Málaga): Cotrans—2 p.m., 5 p.m., $29.15, 12 hours. Copetrán—5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m., $37, 12 hours. Concorde—8 p.m., $39.65, 12 hours. Omega—7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9:30 p.m., $43.60, 12 hours. Berlinas—9 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., hourly 4-11 p.m., $46.20, 12.5 hours.

To Cali: Bolivariano—11 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m., $59.35, 20 hours. Copetrán—8 p.m., $58.30, 20 hours.

To Medellín: Bolivariano—5 p.m., $56.70, 12-13 hours. Copetrán—8:30 p.m., $44.65, 14 hours.

To Santa Marta: Copetrán—10:30 p.m., $51.40, 14 hours.

To Barranquilla/Cartagena: Brasilia (to Barranquilla only)—3 p.m., 7:30 p.m., $53, 15 hours. Concorde—7 p.m., $44.65/47.50, 15/18 hours. Berlinas—4:30 p.m., $55.665/63, 15/18 hours.

To Sincelejo: Copetrán—4:30 p.m., $53, 18 hours.

To Montería: Brasilia—2:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., $63, 18 hours.