Under Peruvian skies

A flight from Guayaquil to Lima was quite expensive, and the way by bus is about 28 hours, so I found the fastest and cheapest way was riding a 5-hour bus to the first city in Perú, Tumbes, right next to the border with Ecuador, and from there a local 2-hour flight to Lima.
We arrived to Tumbes in the afternoon, where we got off the bus to go through migrations. The scenery there was quite shocking: hundreds of people with lots of stuff and even tents all over the road, I understood it was due to the situation in Venezuela. About 200 Venezuelan people per hour arrive to Perú. For us going through migrations took about 1 hour, but there were 2 people from Venezuela in our bus and they had to go through a different process, including having a mandatory vaccine shot against yellow fever, which they have there for free, but for which we had to wait for 3 extra hours. Our bus finally departed and I was the only passenger getting off in Tumbes. I didn’t want to arrive at night but I hadn’t calculated such wait in migrations, in the Ecuador the sun falls exactly at 6 pm. Tumbes is not the nicest place and doesn’t feel too safe, there were thousands of moto-taxis pushing you for a ride which reminded me Thailand. I had no local money (Soles) and only a few dollars, and also, no-one would accept card. Luckily I managed to find a nice man in front of the station who drove me to the airport in his car and waited for me to get some cash there, so at the end it wasn’t as bad as it felt at first..
I arrived to Lima by midnight, but I had already arranged a pick up at the airport, so an hour later I was at the apartment in Miraflores. Miraflores is a neighbourhood next to the ocean that looks more like Miami than Peru, super clean, safe, and truly beautiful.
During my stay in Peru I enjoyed their great food, from ceviche to all kinds of new and tasty dishes. I walked around Miraflores, Barranco (the bohemian district), and went to the city center, where I could enjoy a visit to one of the eldest catacombs available for tourism in the world, as well as all the colonial heritage in one of the most important cities of the colonial era. Also in the city center I walked on the dark side of the moon, some tenebrous streets that later I was told I was lucky not having being robbed.
Lima has cloudy weather always, except for 3 or 4 months a year, so it was basically cloudy with same temperature every day, from 16 to 21 degrees. It was a great stop to rest, I slept a lot every day, and recharged energies for the next stops.
I’m now again at the airport, waiting for my flight to my next destination.. good thing is I have a lot of Tangel Trio studio material ready for listening!