He "hitched" a ride to escape his father to meet with his mom, but ended up 620 miles off his destination.

Reports said that 10-year-old Franklin Villca Huanoco fled his father's home in Bolivia to look for his mother in Cocachambaka where she recently served a prison sentence for drug offences, but he travelled 620 miles in the wrong direction.

Huanoco hid himself under a truck which he thought was going to the Bolivisn city 70 miles away. The boy hid inside a metal container attached to the underside of the truck. The size of the metal is roughly the length of the boy's body.

Unknown to the boy, the truck was heading for Iquique in northern Chile. The driver too was unaware of his "extra passenger."

Huanoco told a Chilean state television, "I wanted to see my mother."

Authorities said the boy endured the two-day journey without food or water while the bus crossed Bolivia's Andean altiplano. The temperatures in the region drop below freezing point at night.

What's more remarkable was that the boy was only wearing his pants, a shirt and ragged shoes.

He was found by a local woman while he was wandering the streets of Alto Hospicio township, which neighbours Iquique, and took him to her home.

Bolivian officials are scheduled to arrive at Alto Hospicio to pick up the boy and reunite him with his mother. The boy is currently staying with the woman's family.

Huanaco has been living with his father and four siblings in their house in Oruro, Bolivia. His parents were separated.

His mother, identified as Zenobia Huanaco, is currently working in the countryside outside Cochabamba after she was released from prison last month.