Peru

I had plans to stay in a little town near peru for a month, working and volunteering and living for free, but that ended up not working out. i did however meet and aussie in cuenca and again in vilcabamba (where i was going to stay) so we headed for peru. our bus to the border town was held up for 3 hours by a parade in celebration of the virgin, i have no idea why they chose to have 1000 people parade in the middle of the highway 25 km from the city they all lived in, but that had apparently been the plan. played hacky sack with some american girl travelling with their family and then we got moving again. 6 hours later we got off and took a taxi to immigration, although at this point it was 11:30 and we were advised (if we wanted to not be robbed and possibly killed) to stay there and go the next morning. we had dinner with an irish and a chilean doing the same think, and at 8 the next morning walked 4 km from ecuador to the peruvian immigration, and were set to go.

another 2 hour bus ride (i slept for most of it, despite Transformers being played, in spanish with spanish subtitles) got us to mancora, a small surfing town on the north coast of ecuador. tomorrow is the womens world tour of surfing, so that will be fun, and the water is warm and the sun is out. after that we´re headed to a mountain town very very far away to do some trekking with the irish guy we met at the border. more as it develops.