Before 7:00am and army car arrived to tell us we were on army land. He agreed
that it is an ecological reserve but also army reserve. We said we’d
be leaving in two hours and he was happy with that.
Into town to find a
super market as I wanted more great local chocolate and more great yogurt; we didn't find one so headed for border. Stopped on side of road
to use the last of the Ecuador Internet but so slow was not worth it
so filled with cheap diesel US$35 to fill both tanks!
Checked EC out of
Ecuador. Strangely we needed to cross into to Peru to both check us out of Ecuador and into Peru.
Lined up at 11:00am with 4 bus loads of people. 2 hours later system
died. Everyone disappeared back to Ecuador to line up again.
When we got there
a mob scene was happening.
Tried to check EC back to Ecuador but couldn’t as car and passport stamps were now on a different date. So went back to Peru to wait. John finished tapping one hole for water tank and started on the other. Some French guys from a big yellow ex-US school bus came and had a chat. They are heading south. We may see them somewhere.
Tried to check EC back to Ecuador but couldn’t as car and passport stamps were now on a different date. So went back to Peru to wait. John finished tapping one hole for water tank and started on the other. Some French guys from a big yellow ex-US school bus came and had a chat. They are heading south. We may see them somewhere.
Went back to Ecuador
to line up and after 3 hours got in door. The official took about 30 mins
to clear us out of Ecuador. The other 2 immigration officials had done at least 4
people each. Now back to Peru to get our stamp into the country and
to get EC in, both in a matter of minutes and we were on our way at 7:30pm
in the dark.
Drove
to Pueto Pizarro a fishing village. A little messy but we continued
along next to ocean until a group of kids ran beside us asking us to
go camp with other gringos; Argentina guys in a tent. We did so and
chatted for a while they’d been here a month working as fishermen
and they would be leaving at 2am for 2 days of fishing. Lots of
rubbish.