Sunday, 24 August 2014
I had a lazy morning, late breakfast, long hot shower (I'm not sure when I get to shower next), and then off I went to the bus station to take a bus to Lima, Peru. The journey would be 26 hours.
At the bus station everything was in Spanish, and luckily a few kind souls helped me out and told me where to go and what to do. The bus is actually not bad, very spacious, and you can recline your seat pretty low and they have a leg rest so it can feel like a bed. I watched so many movies it's not even funny. About 4 hours into the journey we stopped at the border of Ecuador and Peru for immigration purposes. I can't believe I've spent about 10 1/2 days in Ecuador and now I'm already moving on to the next country. At the rate things are going, I will be back in reality in no time! No, no, no I refuse to think about that just yet.
There is a guy on the bus who comes and talks to me every time the bus stops, he is from California but has been living in Ecuador for 2 years now doing missionary work. He was in the army for 20 years, and was in Vietnam for 23 months! How cool is that. I've never met a war veteran before - and now I have! He's going with his wife to Peru for a holliday.
From what little I have seen thus far of the people of Peru, they appear to be a lot less welcoming than the people of Ecuador, but maybe I've just met all the wrong people thus far. I promised everyone, including myself, that I will keep an open mind during this trip and that is what I will do.
I had a lazy morning, late breakfast, long hot shower (I'm not sure when I get to shower next), and then off I went to the bus station to take a bus to Lima, Peru. The journey would be 26 hours.
At the bus station everything was in Spanish, and luckily a few kind souls helped me out and told me where to go and what to do. The bus is actually not bad, very spacious, and you can recline your seat pretty low and they have a leg rest so it can feel like a bed. I watched so many movies it's not even funny. About 4 hours into the journey we stopped at the border of Ecuador and Peru for immigration purposes. I can't believe I've spent about 10 1/2 days in Ecuador and now I'm already moving on to the next country. At the rate things are going, I will be back in reality in no time! No, no, no I refuse to think about that just yet.
There is a guy on the bus who comes and talks to me every time the bus stops, he is from California but has been living in Ecuador for 2 years now doing missionary work. He was in the army for 20 years, and was in Vietnam for 23 months! How cool is that. I've never met a war veteran before - and now I have! He's going with his wife to Peru for a holliday.
From what little I have seen thus far of the people of Peru, they appear to be a lot less welcoming than the people of Ecuador, but maybe I've just met all the wrong people thus far. I promised everyone, including myself, that I will keep an open mind during this trip and that is what I will do.
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