Passing Into Peru

Following a heavy evening spent in Cuenca, it was a tough start to the day on the journey to Peru. We had a five hour bus ride in down to the border town of Huaquillas in southern Ecuador. Needless to say I spent most of the way sleeping and trying to recover from the previous evening. The experience of crossing from Ecuador to Peru wasn´t one I would like to repeat very often. The border was dusty, dodgy, dirty and downright sweltering. Heaps of vendors and other undesirables kept hanging around us trying to persuade us to use their transport service or buy worthless stuff from them. It was probably the most unsafe I have ever felt throughout my South American adventure, but the group managed to get through it unscathed. It was sad to leave Ecaudor behind but nice to get into another country and add another stamp to my passport. So after the border formalities we headed a few hours further south to a beach resort called Mancora for a few days of sun, surf, and sifting about.