Hey there,
What a palaver these last few days have been! We managed to get our bus from Quito to Huaquillas in Equador ok, (despite the hangover). Huaquillas is a border town, and before you enter the town, you have your passport stamped with the exit stamp for Equador. You then need to walk about 5 miles (or taxi) to the Peruvian side for the entrance stamp into Peru.
Unfortunately Haz had her passport stolen just after exiting Equador, so we were literally in no-mans land minus one passport. A lovely Australian, Vince, helped us with the police reports in Equador as his Spanish was quite good. However, when we tried to enter Peru with the police reports from Equador, they would not accept them (the countries don´t get on), so Haz was technically an illegal immigrant in Peru... after a few hours of bureaucracy we managed to get on the bus to Mancora (a northern coastal town in Peru), but were a bit concerned that if we were stopped for a security check point by the police Haz might have to bribe her way out of a potentially sticky situation..!
Got to Mancora ok, and Haz managed to get another police report done for Peru, so that if she was stopped she´d at least have acceptable police documents. Mancora is absolutely lovely, a little town on the coast - it has one road, that pedestrians, dogs, rickshaws, coaches, trucks, cars and so on all fight to use. Stayed in the Loki hostel there and it was beautiful. http://www.lokihostel.com/
The hostel is still being built, but has a lovely 26 m pool (but we think we found someone´s skin floating in it, horrible,) and goes right off the main road down to the beach. So perfect bar - hostel - beach distances! Spent a great couple of days there swimming and chilling out (and buying a few pieces of jewellery from the stalls too...)
So just done a 17 hour journey by bus to Lima (which is rightly named ´Purgatory´in the ´Inca Kola´ book and in about an hour we are heading to Cusco on another 22 hour bus journey. Will then head straight to the consulate to try and get Haz´s passport sorted out for the Inca trail, as you can´t do it without one (for permit reasons). But the guy from the company we are trekking with seems to be really helpful, and will do all he can to sort it out.
Staying in the other Loki hostel in Cusco tomorrow night too, so will email again from there.
Love Alice xxx
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