Lima to Huancayo 15th Oct
Good flight
through to Santiago Chile, almost straight onto the next to Lima. Our arranged pick up imn Lima didn´t show so after about half an hour
we got a taxi to take us the thirthy minutes or so to our hotel in Miraflores. It was well dark by then. The taxi driver was
spoke some English but encouraged us to use Spanish. WE did the best we could, a good start. Checked in went for a walk and tried a pisco
and some food. Cec and Pen did not
arrive until midnight or so so we saw them the next morning. Hotel was us$80 for two nights
Next
morning we did a bus tour around Lima
and I bought a tiket for the next morning to bus to Huancayo 6.30 start.
Dark when I
got the taki to bus depot. Had some
roadside gruel and a roll at the depot for about 60c each.
Bus wsa plush and wasn´t long before heading up the hills and ears
popping. The roads were excellent, would
be great on motorcycle. Didn,t see any though.
Mind you I was watching an
onboard movie some of the time. Started
to get cold and hot air started pumping around the feet. Also an in flight meal turned up, hot and
tasty. Cruz Del Sur bus line. I think perus
best. The 10hr trip was Aus$20
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15th
Oct
Arrived
Huancayo in the afternoon and got a room in hotel confort for 25 soles a
night. Theres roughly 2 soles to an
ausie $.
16th
Oct
Stopped in Huancayo two nights.
Kind of afraid to try and talk to people but have to to find out how to
get out of here. Huancayo is kind of grey and sprawling. I find out here that
Australian dollars are nigh impossible to change, and I have quite a few. Oh well, my first need to extract from the
hole in the wall with the US$ travelex card.
And it worked fortunately. I got
a taxi to the tren station in the next suburb and after enlisting the help of a
10 year old from a hostel found the station office and discovered the train to
Huancavelica is not running because of track repairs. Back at hotel. Discovered where buses leave from and did a
dry run during the day for the next morning.
Had a 5am start next morning to get the bus.
