Traversée frontière Ecuador- Peru To Chiclayo
Après les 7 cascades à Naranjal vers les 15h30-16h j'ai commencé mon autostop ! Super facile ! 5-10 min après avoir levé mon pouce un chauffeur de camion s'arrête et va jusqu'à Huaquillas la ville qui est à côté de la frontière.
After 7 waterfalls in Naranjal around 15h30-16h I started my hitchhiking! Super easy! 5-10 min after raising my thumb a truck driver stops and goes to Huaquillas the city that is next to the border.
I have more than 5 km left. But as he did a lot of detours because of traffic jams and his big truck it was near 19h and therefore at night.
Nevertheless as the road is not badly lit and there is only 5 minutes drive but more than 1 hour on foot with my bag I still hitchhiking. But the few cars that pass are yellow cabs or cars that do not stop. Luckily 1 finally stops (after 15 min 😅) and surprise is a taxi driver! Damn it's paying !? So I told him I thought it was free not knowing that it's a cab like no sign. And as we discussed we arrive at the symbolic price for him of $ 1! And yes, I could have gone out. But at night you have to play better secure 😉
At the border (But apparently there is another one closer to the city) everything goes fast like no tail and the two offices "exit of Ecuador" and "entrance of the peru" are side by side in the same building. 2-3 small questions and 90 day buffer hop.
Walk 2 min and get to the bus. At first 5 soles for TUMBES the border town. But I understood $ 5 as a guy (that I thought by car and in truth it was a taxi) told me just before $ 5 each I confused. 😅
Taxis are $ 10 possible to share with the number of passengers and so in the end I paid $ 3.
Arrival at TUMBES it was more than 19h30. And I had to decide on my next destination. And aucum. Way to find a wifi!
Hesitations:
- My 2 taxi companions were going to Lima and at the exit of the taxi some proposed 35 $ by bus whereas according to the taxi driver it was 100 soles DC about 32_33 $. And besides, I wanted to visit other cities before going to Lima. So option removed even if a night hostel-hotel less.
- And 2h-2h30 bus and more to go to Máncora the city-beach on the Pacific coast that I planned to go. But arrived too late (22:30 if I took the bus of 20h) to easily find a budget accommodation.
- So I decide to go to the next destination Chiclayo and much further that allows me to save one night hotel.
For 20h more place and about to leave so ticket 30 soles and payable in $ 10 DC.
As a lot of time I take the opportunity to load my laptop at the bus terminal as wifi gratis did not work.
Waiting I see that there seems to be a small street restaurant and I will see for 1.50 soles for 1 donut and 5 soles for fried chicken and rice and fried. A client proposes to change my 5 $ 1 = 3sol DC 15 s.
And after the meal ends (and like 1h of avail and q I could put my bacpack at the terminal) I benefit go to the center which is 5_10min walk to find a distributor like none around the terminal.
18 soles of fees for 400 soles BBVA continental
And so I'm going to see another Multired bank but it validates me transaction without telling me beforehand what the distriutor's as it is habutuelle. So 400 soles maxi: about $ 133 if no cost?
Night bus at 10:30 and signature by your footprint on the number of your seat on the plane map of the bus. Bus full.
Place everything at the bottom. Usually I'm sick but on the first floor finally it goes and in addition more room to extend the seat as a person.
But between a mother who talk to such pdt 30min, notificación of the guy from inside who finally turned off his like after 1h, and my neighbor who snores not super easy to sleep. And the heat does not help.
But at least over 1am in the morning it allows me to write this article 😉😅
Arrive in Chiclayo around 6h30-7h am. But difficult to find free wifi.