Today we got up super early and left at 4am. We continued our ride towards Lima to see how far we would make it.
Pretty early we were stopped by the police claiming we had gone to fast. As always in this area we had to bribe them a bit.
Other than that not much happened. As I still didn’t get any internet signal we stopped at a hotel and connected to the internet for a while. Later, when we passed the border to Perú, I noticed that I had mobile data turned off the entire time (I must have turned it off at one point with the intention to turn it back on in hope to get signal via reconnecting and forgot to turn it back on).
We arrived at the border crossing at the worst time possible: lunch time. But as we were the only people at this remote border crossing, it didn’t take much longer as usual even though we had to wait for someone to finish his meal twice.
Perú’s landscape is so much different from what I expected. Having images of Machu Pichu in mind, I thought it was one of the most hilly countries. In fact, after crossing through all the mountains of Colombia and Ecuador, Perú – at least the parts we’ve crossed – is super flat and desert like.
After almost 16h we eventually made it to Pimentel, PER, where we arrived safely, put our feet in the cold pacific ocean, thought for a moment the ocean had taken our shoes including the car’s key, paniced, then found them, laughed a lot, then found a hostel and will now go to bed to get up early again tomorrow and hopefully make it all the way to Lima.