Hotel Feijoo Tumbes

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... another hour for everyone to be sorted and stamped, we set off.

3,00am : Iīve drifted off into a deep sleep and now thereīs a man with a big gun and an army uniform on shining a torch in my face. Iīm not sure whether Iīm dreaming, being robbed or thereīs been some kind of natural disaster and Iīve slept through it. Panic sets in before I realise itīs just the local Policia running a routine check of the bus. The baggage store is thrown ...

... It was
smelly, grubby and the room was tiny; it was 40 Solars, 10 more than
we are paying here. The other thing of note are the cars, I feel like I'm back in Venezuela, all these huge, ole, jacked up dodges running around, it's a bit like being in a dukes of Hazard episode.




I picked up mail at the border and
discovered Bob, the Aussie we met on the road last week, had his
laptop stolen from his room in Montanita. Eight years of diaries ...

... in South America’ – apparently the Peruvian Immigration officials are quite partial to a bribe or two – we didn’t experience any of this luckily and once through immigration proceedings we were on our way to our next stop – Tumbes, 30 km from the border. I wish we had stayed on the bus. Tumbes is an impoverished town with no exports and high unemployment so we (and our bags) were eyed off constantly, but hey, it was cheap accommodation and and ...

... on the beach playing volleyball so I grabbed a beer and went down to enjoy the sunset. It was pretty overcast, but the sun popped out from under the clouds for a brief appearance. Since we are by the sea. Seafood was on the menu. We had seafood Paella. It had little cray fish and some hard shelled prawns in it. Pretty yummy apart from the muscles. Leo the hostel manager breeds Peruvian hairless dogs. Pretty weird looking and you really donīt want to stroke skin, feels funny.

... to a very old local bus which was full to it maximum. It turns out we have just paid $20 us for a $5 bus journey which stops at every town on the way up and takes 6 hours to do what we were told was 3 hours. Never mind, what is done is done. On route I manage to make school boy error number 2. On our travel itinary it says no combats, so what do I do put mine at the top of ...

The journey over the border started to resemble a little more of the South America that I was expecting and the concept of "cama" buses seemed a long way away. We had actually been warned that trying to cross the border where we were was more than a little dodgy with corrupt police being the least of your problems but the option of travelling 3 hours south to travel another 7 hours north didn't appeal, so we decided to take our ...

this is a border crossing from the Ecuadorian side, it means you can't simply take one bus all the way through. Our first leg was from Cuenca to Machala and we were able to hop in the 7am bus which got us off to an early start. The bus was very comfortable and four hour trip flew by in no time. Once we arrived in Machala we had to make our way by taxi to another bus terminal to catch a bus to the boarder, fortunately taxi's were available and the short ...

PERU: Population: 27.2 million The capital of Peru is Lima with more than 7,600,000 inhabitants Official language is Spanish, though Quechua is mainly spoken in the highlands and Aymara is also spoken here (mainly near Lake Titicaca) Interesting facts: Domestication of the llama, alpaca and guinea pig began between 7000 and 4000 BC. Peru grows more than 4000 varieties of potato!!! They even come in black, purple and a bluish hue! Most famous for (at least ...

en Tumbes el calor es por momentos sofocante. los atractivos de esta ciudad fonteriza en el norte de Peru, es su plaza de armas, el paseo de la concordia ( en memoria de la guerra con Ecuador), en las cercanias Puerto Pizarro desde donde se pueden visitar los manglares donde se avistan aves marinas o se pueden visitar islas y hasta un criadero de cocodrilos.