There are 9 ways to get from Cusco to Potosí by plane, bus, car, or shuttle
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly to Alcantari Airport, bus
best- Fly from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ) to Alcantari Airport (SRE)plane CUZ - SRE
- Take the bus from Sucre to Potosibus
10h 24m$331–790Bus via Potosi
cheapest- Take the bus from Cusco to Terminal de Buses La Pazbus Cusco
- Take the bus from La Paz to Potosibus La Paz / ...
24h$26–396Bus
- Take the bus from Cusco to Terminal de Buses La Pazbus Cusco
- Take the bus from La Paz to Potosíbus La Paz
23h$27–350Drive 1,143.7 km
- Drive from Cusco to Potosícar 1,143.7 km
17h 54m$172–249Fly to Uyuni Airport, bus
- Fly from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ) to Uyuni Airport (UYU)plane CUZ - UYU
- Take the bus from Uyuni to Potosíbus
12h 9m$376–714Fly to Cochabamba, bus
- Fly from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ) to Cochabamba (CBB)plane CUZ - CBB
- Take the bus from Cochabamba to Potosíbus
9h 16mFly to Tarija, bus
- Fly from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ) to Tarija (TJA)plane CUZ - TJA
- Take the bus from Tarija to Potosíbus
11h 21m$394–585Fly to Oruro, bus
- Fly from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ) to Oruro (ORU)plane CUZ - ORU
- Take the bus from Oruro to Potosíbus
21h 57m$242–723Bus, Tour
- Take the bus from Cusco Real Inka Car to Punobus
- Take a shuttle bus from Puno to La Paz
- Take the bus from La Paz to Patacamayabus
- Take the bus from Patacamaya to Orurobus
- Take the bus from Oruro to Potosíbus
32h 47m
Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ) to Alcantari Airport (SRE) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cusco to Potosí is to drive which costs $170 - $250 and takes 17h 54m.
The fastest way to get from Cusco to Potosí is to fly and bus which takes 10h 24m and costs $330 - $800.
No, there is no direct bus from Cusco to Potosí. However, there are services departing from Cusco and arriving at Potosí via La Paz. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 23h.
The distance between Cusco and Potosí is 1098 km. The road distance is 1143.7 km.
The best way to get from Cusco to Potosí without a car is to bus which takes 23h and costs $26 - $350.
It takes approximately 10h 24m to get from Cusco to Potosí, including transfers.
Cusco to Potosí bus services, operated by Nuevo Continente Internacional, depart from Cusco station.
Cusco to Potosí bus services, operated by Nuevo Continente Internacional, arrive at Terminal de Buses La Paz station.
Potosí is 1h ahead of Cusco. It is currently 4:26 PM in Cusco and 5:26 PM in Potosí.
Yes, the driving distance between Cusco to Potosí is 1144 km. It takes approximately 17h 54m to drive from Cusco to Potosí.
What companies run services between Cusco, Peru and Potosí, Bolivia?
You can take a bus from Cusco to Potosí via Terminal de Buses La Paz and La Paz in around 23h.
- Website
- boa.bo
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Alcantari Airport via La Paz, Cochabamba
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $320–750
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Alcantari Airport via Lima, La Paz
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 47m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $170–650
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Uyuni Airport via La Paz
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $350–600
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Uyuni Airport via Lima, La Paz
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $330–850
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Cochabamba via La Paz
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $320–490
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Cochabamba via Lima, La Paz
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $160–600
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Cochabamba via Lima, Santa Cruz
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $290–470
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Cochabamba via La Paz, Tarija
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $290–470
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Cochabamba via La Paz, Santa Cruz
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 25m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $290–470
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Tarija via La Paz
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $180–600
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Tarija via La Paz, Cochabamba
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $370–600
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Tarija via La Paz, Santa Cruz
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200–650
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Oruro via La Paz, Cochabamba
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200–900
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Oruro via Lima, La Paz, Cochabamba
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–750
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Oruro via Lima, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $240–850
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Oruro via La Paz, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $220–700
Flights from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport to Oruro via La Paz, Tarija, Cochabamba
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $230–750
- Phone
- +591 71160539
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Sucre to Potosi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $3
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +591 684 06 744
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Sucre to Potosi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $2
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +591 22283843
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Cusco to Terminal de Buses La Paz
- Ave. Duration
- 13h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $20–350
- Book at
- https://www.ticketsbolivia.com/company/nc_internacional.php
Bus from Cusco to Terminal de Buses La Paz
- Ave. Duration
- 13h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $20–350
- Book at
- https://www.ticketsbolivia.com/company/nc_internacional.php
- Phone
- +591 69416892
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from La Paz to Potosí
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $6–9
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +591 7354 1750
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from La Paz to Potosí
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $62
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/notes/347346443152929/
- Phone
- +591 60340030
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from La Paz to Potosí
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $9
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Cochabamba to Potosí
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +591 72323251
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Uyuni to Potosí
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $14–21
- Book at
- busbud.com
- Phone
- +591 2624 3373
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tarija to Potosí
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $15
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064106772591
- Phone
- +591 466-60443
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Oruro to Potosí
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 53m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $18–35
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from La Paz to Potosi
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 58m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $6–55
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +591-72233555
- [email protected]
- Website
- transcopacabanasa.com
Bus from La Paz to Potosi
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $11–17
- Schedules at
- transcopacabanasa.com
- Phone
- +591 69414917
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from La Paz to Potosi
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $5–11
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Normal
- $5–7
- Semicama
- $7–10
- Cama
- $11–13
- Phone
- +59176400493
- Website
- flotaeldorado.com
Bus from La Paz to Potosi
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $11–40
- Schedules at
- flotaeldorado.com
- Book at
- flotaeldorado.com
- Phone
- +51993063390
- [email protected]
- Website
- realinkacar.com
Bus from Cusco Real Inka Car to Puno
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 25m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $190–1,200
- Schedules at
- realinkacar.com
- Book at
- realinkacar.com
- Phone
- +51 051 630 257
- [email protected]
- Website
- titicaca.cruises
Shuttle from Puno to La Paz
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $50
- Schedules at
- titicaca.cruises
- Phone
- +591 2228 0861
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from La Paz to Patacamaya
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064276261369
Bus from Patacamaya to Oruro
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064276261369
- Phone
- +591 2228 1894
- Website
- es-la.facebook.com
Bus from La Paz to Patacamaya
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://es-la.facebook.com/aromaheivan/
- Schedules at
- https://www.ticketsbolivia.com.bo/empresa/trans-aroma.php
Bus from Patacamaya to Oruro
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 18m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://es-la.facebook.com/aromaheivan/
- Schedules at
- https://www.ticketsbolivia.com.bo/empresa/trans-aroma.php
- Phone
- +591 7152 0995
Bus from La Paz to Patacamaya
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- andestransit.com
Bus from Patacamaya to Oruro
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- andestransit.com
- Phone
- +591 4663 5753
- Website
- ozvpipo29.wixsite.com
Bus from Oruro to Potosí
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 19m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- ozvpipo29.wixsite.com
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