Viaje CONDOR BUS SANTIAGO RANCAGUA RENGO en bus MODASA ZEUS | Ando en Bus

Viaje CONDOR BUS SANTIAGO RANCAGUA RENGO en bus MODASA ZEUS | Ando en Bus

Hello everyone, how are you? I’m Ariel Cruz Pizarro, in this episode of Ando en Bus, we’ll be watching a Condor Bus trip to Rancagua and Rengo, with some anecdotes and dinner at the Rancagua terminal. Our trip today is Santiago – Rancagua – Rengo, 115 km, 1 hour 45 minutes. Sunday, May 4, 2025. I arrived by metro at Universidad de Santiago, the station that has a direct connection to Terminal Alameda. Terminal Alameda is a facility for Pullman Bus Costa Central, Pullman del Sur, and TurBus; the larger side belongs to TurBus, while we’re looking at the side of TurBus and affiliated companies like Condor. It’s a beautiful, renovated, and modernized bus terminal. Condor Bus services use platforms 17 to 25. The first platforms with the new terminal belong to TurBus, the parent company, and Condor Bus buses depart from the old section, next to the buses that go to Santiago Airport. As a bonus, I was able to see bus 3000 going to the airport, TurBus’s first electric bus, which has its own episode and interview here on the channel. And this Condor Bus was arriving from Cartagena, El Tabo, El Quisco, from the beach. Here our bus arrives for Rancagua and Rengo; it’s finally our time to travel. Departure 4:00 PM: Santiago to Rancagua and Rengo, Condor Bus 2433, a Modasa Zeus bus. To board, I show my electronic ticket with the QR code on my cell phone. I’m on the second floor of this Modasa Zeus bus; I’ll be riding in the panoramic window. I’ll show you what the spaces look like, although I’ll be riding on the other side. This is what the panoramic seats look like in their normal position, and here we see these semi-bed seats with their recline. All the back seats also have a mesh storage area and leg rests, something we didn’t have. I’m traveling in seat 13, window and panoramic, so I have plenty of room to stretch my legs. I have a seatbelt, and the orange lever is for reclining. Here you can see me enjoying this bus before traveling. Thank you so much for tuning in. Above my head, there are reading lights, air conditioning, and USB ports. On the bus, there’s space for packages, a television that provides information , and a lighted indicator indicating bathroom availability. Today’s driver is Héctor Cornejo Andrade, greetings from above, haha. This panel displays the driving hours and the bus’s speed. 4:00 PM, we departed on time, the bus almost full. We’re leaving the Alameda Terminal. Personally, I find it more convenient to leave from here than from the South Terminal. It was one of the reasons I took the bus. This terminal is next to the South Terminal, where we’re seeing that beautiful 8×2 Eme Bus Marcopolo G7 bus enters. In other episodes of Ando en Bus, I’ve shown what these buses are like; I’ve been able to ride them, and you can learn about them. That’s also a question I had, but perhaps you can share your knowledge in the comments about all the people who travel this route. I remember seeing these Condor Bus buses several times at the South Terminal, going to Rancagua and Rengo. But this bus didn’t enter the South Terminal; we traveled directly from the Alameda Terminal. For me, it’s better; it’s much easier and safer. From what I’ve been checking online, this bus leaves from the South Terminal in the mornings, and from the Alameda Terminal in the afternoons. Before traveling, I had no idea; I had to check. Was it always like this? Or is it something new now, leaving from one terminal in the morning and another in the afternoon? The trip through Santiago was quite smooth. Well, it’s Sunday, and there aren’t many people in Santiago. I was calm and relaxed. I had some errands to run in Doñihue, near Rancagua, and just when I thought I had to go to Rancagua to stay, it seemed like a good idea to take this bus the entire way to Rengo and then return, which is what we’ll see in this episode. I’ve never been to Rengo; it will be my first time doing this route. From scenes on the road, the bus drove past in Colón, We didn’t take any passengers there, which I found surprising; I thought we were going to stop. And we just happened to see one of the Spanish UT440 Metrotren Rancagua trains, which also appear in an episode of Ando en Tren. You can see them, and you can take that trip through video. This is the Maipo River bridge, although due to the time of year, May, it doesn’t carry much water; the greatest flow is from November to March, due to the melting of snow in the mountains. But it’s beautiful to see the bridge nonetheless. The trip is super relaxing, and also because it’s close, it’s a trip I’ve made several times. On the horizon, we see the mountains of Altos de Cantillana, an area rich in biodiversity, where you can go on very beautiful hikes. And in other settings, we see the autumn colors in the surrounding trees. Something I almost never show because it’s so common is the road control. All traveling buses have to stop at this place for the Carabineros, the police, and the crew submits a checklist. It’s a sheet with the names of all passengers, the RUT (Tax ID) for each seat occupied, and an emergency contact number. The bus attendant usually asks for this information at the beginning of the trip, and in this case, the driver wrote it down when we boarded the bus. The property is in the Angostura area, which is one of my favorite parts of the trip between Santiago and Rancagua. Both the bus and the train offer beautiful surroundings and different perspectives; you can appreciate it from a different perspective. Angostura is so named because, metaphorically, the Andes Mountains and the Coastal Mountains almost embrace each other. There’s a small space between the two ranges, and here they meet. On the other side of Angostura is the Monticello Casino, which serves Santiago and Rancagua. The central region of Chile, especially the Metropolitan Area, O’Higgins, Maule, and Ñuble regions, are vineyards. So, near the Pan-American Highway and the train tracks, you can see many agricultural crops, and among them, the vineyards for wine production play a major role. Chile produces many high-quality wines at affordable prices. Tourists often come to visit vineyards, sample wines , and buy many wines. To enter Rancagua, there’s a special connection on the highway because the regular route has a bypass, bypassing this city. The trip between Santiago and Rancagua is extremely frequent and also in high demand. Many people live in Rancagua but work or study in Santiago, and they make this trip every day on these buses, or even on the train. I like that; ultimately, I’m showing a trip that is common for many people. Rancagua is the main city on this trip. The Rancagua metropolitan area, including nearby municipalities, has nearly 300,000 inhabitants. It’s my destination city, although I’ll arrive bouncing from Rengo, haha. We’ll arrive, plural, because you’re joining me. And Rancagua has several bus terminals. The main one, or the most varied, is Terminal O’Higgins, which is on the side of the highway. It has the most companies and the most destinations. As a public transportation enthusiast, it’s fun to come here because there are so many buses, companies, colors, types of routes, and destinations; it’s super varied. That’s where Jet Sur goes, which, given the time and type of bus, I imagine goes to Bucalemu. There are always interesting buses. In the meantime, once you see the terminal, I’ll tell you some information about the ticket. The entire trip from Santiago to Rengo cost 5,900 Chilean pesos, about $6. When you purchase it, you receive the electronic ticket with the QR code that you show to travel. This trip is a collaboration with Muvify, the discount and promotion club of TurBus and subsidiaries like Condor Bus. I made the normal ticket purchase on the TurBus website, you choose origin, destination, the date, the buses of TurBus and all the subsidiaries will appear, in this case Condor Bus buses. When you choose a seat, then fill in your personal information. You can pay with credit or debit cards, or bank transfers. This time I paid with Muvify pesos, something you can do when you can afford the full price of the fare. A huge thank you to the channel members, to whom they give a Super Gracias, to the dear readers of my books. I’m a writer and book editor, and thanks to all of you, I can continue traveling and sharing these adventures , reaching ever further afield. If you like what I do, you’ll love my books. In the descriptions of all the videos, there’s a link to the Super Map, with the geographic reference for each video. This trip will be at the Rengo bus terminal. It’s time to depart from Terminal O’Higgins. Yes, I know I still need to share the bus’s technical details, but we’ll see them when we travel back. Something I really like is this part: the bus leaves the terminal through a tunnel and goes directly onto the highway. I find it very fun and also super cool, although when you travel from the other side of the highway, you have to go around several times to get to the terminal. It’s good on one side, heading south, but bad on the other when you travel north. This part of the trip is a bit more novel. I’ve traveled beyond Rancagua several times, but I haven’t been to Rengo, so I don’t know what it’s like. I do know that a lot of people got off in Rancagua; we were packed. A lot of people got off, but a lot more people got on too, and the bus was full again, almost every seat taken. This is the bridge over the Cachapoal River, which also has little water at this time of year. It also receives a lot of meltwater , and at the same time, this entire area of ​​Chile has had successive droughts. We’ve had many years with little rain, unfortunately. On the highway, Sunday was different. Our trip was smooth; if you notice, there are few cars and vehicles on the roads, a super-relaxed trip. But on the opposite roads, heading toward Santiago, you see a lot of cars, a lot of buses, a lot of people, and it’s like that all Sunday, including Monday night and early morning. Lots of traffic. We just saw one of the Suite Cama Max buses with massages from Eme Bus, which are also in another video. Rancagua and Rengo are about 30 km apart; it’s not a long distance, but it’s not a short one either. The bus leaves the highway, pays a toll, and has to enter the city. Something very curious happens with Rengo. In Rancagua, I said there were multiple companies and destinations, but in Rengo it’s the opposite. The only company that travels to Santiago is Condor Bus. There is a train, the Santiago-San Fernando service that stops in Rengo, and Rancagua-Rengo-San Fernando, but it doesn’t have as many schedules, so Condor Bus practically runs almost exclusively on this route, which is why we travel full; many people travel between Rancagua and Rengo. Let me introduce you to the city of Rengo and its bus terminal, which we’ll see in some detail now that we’re arriving at our destination. I’m the last passenger to get off, for a change. We see the interior of this double-decker bus. Semi-bed seats on the second floor, and we’ll see salon-bed seats on the first floor. Wider seats. This is what it looks like in general. Condor Bus 2433, now in Rengo. We’ve finished the first part of this Condor Bus trip, showing this bus and this route that is part of many people’s routines. Maybe even you. It was a nice and peaceful trip, fortunately. Don’t leave yet because interesting things are coming. First, the Condor Bus ticket office at the terminal. Condor Bus buses are the only large buses that go to Santiago; now everything operates with double-decker buses, like the one we traveled on. And the terminal also has smaller rural buses. The driver of this bus was friendly and waved to the camera. The bus was going to Peumo, San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, and Las Cabras. Next door, there’s a parking lot for collective taxi lines. These buses offer fixed routes and fixed fares. Here they’re yellow, in other cities they’re black, and they connect with other nearby towns. Looking at the collective taxi terminal, I saw a super beautiful sunset that Sunday. Regarding rural buses, I also saw other buses connecting with Rancagua and San Fernando. Rengo is located between the two cities. It’s possible to travel by bus on these routes. That’s what I saw at the terminal. To return to Rancagua, I had another ticket purchased under the same conditions. This is a patch from another trip, haha. We see the interior of the first floor of a Modasa Zeus bus, with 12 plush blue Salon Cama seats, very nice. TurBus bus 2550, which is the same as the Condor buses on this trip, has leg rests, and in the middle area are the USB ports, along with cup holders. At that time, the service included a pillow; we see the Salon Cama seat with its recline. I traveled on this bus from Viña del Mar to Los Angeles. You can also watch the video on YouTube; it’s an episode of Ando en Bus, like this trip we’re watching. Closing the parenthesis, we already saw the first floor then. And now I’m getting on the bus that will take me to Rancagua. I’ll be traveling on the second floor, with semi-bed seats, which this time are also plush seats, in blue. The headrests say TurBus, but Condor Bus is a subsidiary of TurBus. Personally, I like the plush seats better; they’re softer and more comfortable. This bus is an old friend of mine, so we’ll look at the information now. These two Condor Bus units, 2433 and 2441, are double-decker Modasa Zeus buses, manufactured in Peru, with Brazilian-made Mercedes-Benz chassis, registered in the summer of 2013. They have 12 salon-bed seats on the first floor, and on the second floor there are economy semi-bed seats. The first bus has 48 seats, and the second bus has 44 seats. Formally, in the sales system, they all appear with the number 44. In Chile, we currently have five generations of Modasa Zeus buses brought by Vivipra from Peru, from 2011 to the present. The bus on this trip is a Modasa New Zeus II, the second generation that arrived between 2013 and 2015. Taking advantage of the photos I posted earlier, I found several archives, and we can also see the changes to Condor Bus’s corporate paint scheme, using these buses as models. The second bus on the trip, 2441, took me to southern Chile in 2018. The full route was Santiago – Rancagua – Lautaro – Temuco – Cunco – Melipeuco, to the Andes Mountains. Condor Bus currently does not operate this route; NarBus and Transantin operate it. It’s a bus that brings back very fond memories, because I made that trip to Melipeuco to visit Conguillío National Park. I went to visit it in May, which is autumn, one of the most beautiful times to visit this impressive national park. That’s why that bus is an old friend to me. Buses don’t talk, but I remember each and every one of the trips and the transportation I’ve ridden. Even more so when they’re transportation that has taken me to such beautiful places, and they’re such pleasant experiences, right? It’s nice to remember this. At night, the trip to Rancagua was slower because we hit a lot of traffic. But we already knew it would be like this, haha, it was to be expected. And I was lucky because almost everything was sold out . There were two seats left when I bought the ticket, and the bus left packed, jam-packed. Thank you, old friend, for bringing me back safe and sound, and God bless all of you who are watching these videos that I share with much love. To close, I’m now at the O’Higgins Terminal in Rancagua. We’re looking inside. In addition to the ticket offices and shops, one notable feature is the many restaurants and food stalls. I hadn’t had lunch yet; I was very hungry, so I bought a lunch-dinner meal at that hour. For 7,000 pesos, I got a salad of lettuce, cucumber, corn with lemon, A warm chicken consommé or soup was delicious . I’m a soup lover , I love soups. The main course was grilled chicken with rice and fries, plus a small drink. It’s a pleasure to end a trip; you eat super well in Rancagua. Thanks for tuning in, and we’ll see you on more adventures! Bye!

Episodio de la serie ANDO EN BUS viajando en Condor Bus, haciendo la ruta Santiago – Rancagua – Rengo, un trayecto muy habitual entre la capital de Chile y la región de O’Higgins. Condor Bus es la única empresa de buses que conecta Santiago con Rengo.
Comenzamos el viaje en el Terminal Alameda de TurBus, ubicado en la estación de Metro Universidad de Santiago (Línea 1). Los buses de Condor Bus salen desde los andenes 17 al 25. El viaje fue super tranquilo y relajado, viajamos directo a la ciudad de Rancagua, concretamente al Terminal O’Higgins que es el principal terminal de buses de la ciudad. Después de unos 30 km, llegamos a la ciudad de Rengo, donde termina este viaje.
Para este viaje, estuve en 2 buses de dos pisos Modasa Zeus de manufactura peruana, chasis Mercedes Benz O500 RSD de manufactura brasileña, inscritos en 2013, con placas FKGL67 y FFVR18. Los buses tienen 12 asientos Salón Cama, y asientos Semi Cama (44 y 48).
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CRONOLOGÍA
00:00 Presentación y mapa viaje Santiago – Rancagua – Rengo
00:21 Metro y Terminal Alameda de Santiago de Chile
01:27 Llegada de bus Condor Bus 2433 (Modasa Zeus)
01:57 Interior bus Condor Bus 2433 (Modasa Zeus)
03:12 Viaje Santiago – Angostura
07:51 Viaje San Francisco de Mostazal – Rancagua
09:01 Rancagua y Terminal O’Higgins
10:08 Precio de boleto de bus Santiago – Rengo
10:20 Colaboración Muvify y proceso de compra de boletos
11:00 Miembros, super gracias, libros Ariel Cruz Pizarro
11:22 Super Mapa
11:32 Viaje Rancagua – Rengo
13:42 Rengo
14:27 Llegada al terminal y bus vacío
15:04 Terminal de Buses de Rengo: detalles y observaciones
16:42 Interior de bus de dos pisos, Modasa Zeus
17:58 Ficha buses Condor Bus 2433 / 2441, Modasa Zeus
18:31 Generaciones de buses Modasa Zeus en Chile
18:42 Cambios de pinturas corporativas de Condor Bus
19:03 Mi viaje a Conguillío en el bus Condor Bus 2441
20:01 Viaje nocturno hacia Rancagua
20:32 Terminal O’Higgins: vista general y cena, fin de viaje

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Primer bus eléctrico TurBus y viaje a Rancagua https://youtu.be/gsG02ExiCrA
Viaje TurBus 2370, Rancagua – Santiago (Modasa Zeus) https://youtu.be/iZRRl68urZA
Viaje Condor Bus 2309, Santiago – Quintero (Marcopolo G6) https://youtu.be/FqR_GO4exbU
Viaje Condor Bus 2584, Viña del Mar – Santiago (Modasa Zeus 3) https://youtu.be/wZAz3ROSLoU
Viaje Tas Choapa 4300, Santiago – Mendoza (Modasa Zeus 3) https://youtu.be/mnAiSLc1vZs
Viaje TurBus 2554, Santiago – El Tabo (Modasa Zeus) https://youtu.be/i-_HUKCdIM0

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Empresa: Condor Bus N° 2433, 2441
Buses de dos pisos Modasa Zeus, chasis Mercedes Benz O500 RSD, placas FKGL67, FFVR18 (2013)
Ruta: Santiago – Rancagua – Rengo
Categoría: Semi Cama (económico)
Valor: $5.900 pesos chilenos, 6 USD
Fecha: 04 Mayo 2025
Cámara: Canon G7X MK3