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Last Days in Peru
... folks riding in 5th class with me.
Overall the border crossing -albeit inefficient and tedious- was fine.
CROSSING THE BORDER FROM PERU INTO ECUADOR IN 10 ´EASY´ STEPS:
Step 1: Stop at an in-the-middle-of-nowhere decrepit office building in Aguas Verdes, Peru.
Step 2: Get off the bus, enter the building and wait in line to be ´stamped out´ of the ...
Mancora - more beach and sun
... to enjoy sunny days on the beach. There are three main party hostels in Mancora, the most popular being Loki, which is a franchise. Most of the tourists go to Loki because of its reputation. We met a lot of people staying at the hostel who said they had only left the hostel once to look at the beach, probably because having a restaurant and beer on site means you don't need to leave. Now even though Mike and I fit the stereotype of young travellers who are ...
Sun, surf and little Pisco
... appreciation for how big the continent actually is. All those hours staring our the window on the buses had given us the ability to see the geography changing slooowly to reveal such diversity from one destination to the next.
Our next was crossing the border to Ecuador. A country we knew very little about other then one thing - we were approaching the equator and nearing the cross from southern to northern hemisphere and of course, the tropics!
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The Greek Villa That Never Slept
... seen famous landmarks and natural wonders. I have shared laughs for the most reasonable and unreasonable reasons with the most unique and outlandish of people in the most awkward, fascinating, and random of circumstances. I have had the mind-boggling stretches of time in which I have completely forgotten, just blanked out of my mind altogether, that a life in America, in San Diego, even exists for me, with or without my presence. Sometimes I felt so detached from the entire world, but ...
Mancora: sun, sand and ceviche!
... a long day (at this stage we hadn't been able to stop at an ATM thus couldn't make any purchases) we were rather tired, hungry and thirsty by the time we pulled into Mancora. I (Nicky) made a beeline straight to the first ATM we saw (we were hanging out to buy some water), and in my zombie state, fully forgot to withdraw my card back out of the machine. I did remember only a couple of minutes later, though too late, the machine had swallowed up my credit card! Bugger. Not to worry ...