Chapter 4 - Lima to Cusco by bus

Chapter 4 - Lima to Cusco by bus

11.12.12

Ola amigos estar Tom aqui! So after 5 days enjoying the madness of Peru's capital Christian took us to the main bus depot where we found tickets for the 24 hour journey to Cusco (sacred valley of Inca's) The tickets are well cheap, 20 USD for roughly the same distance as north of France to south of Spain! For our final night Pepe prepared us a meal and then we swapped all our music, he's a big reggae fan too so now we've got groovy Latin American reggae infusions to share with you all :)

12.12.12

Pepe borrowed his mates car and drove us through the whirlwind of noise and colour that is Lima until we reached the bus depot, Pepe left but Omar stayed with us and Christian came from work to wish us adios! The Bendesu family were really really good to us, and we're really grateful we found such caring people.

Waiting for the bus...

The bus journey started by seeing a dead body coming off a bus that arrived before ours...maybe it was the heat or some dodgy food Omar said.

We spent 24 hours on the bus the first 6 reading and at at one stop we met one of the friends of the organisers of IncaTek festival where we are going. We were sure we were on the right bus then!

The next 6 hours we spent reading and slyly smoking joints in the bathroom.. no matter how much we smoked it still smelt like piss!
Another astonishing thing, is that instead of dead hedgehog we can find in France or Scotland on the road, here are dogs!

We slept for 6 and then awoke in the Andes! The colours and grandeur of the place is awesome. Many different types of plants lined the roads and deep brown rivers flowed past ferociously as the bus wound round the mountains until eventually reaching Cusco!

Los Andes

Cusco