We´ve had some arduous journey´s on our trip (six buses to a backwoods Honduran brewery featuring fruit beer, the food poisoning Lagos de Montebello expedition and the 12-hour overnight bus to Palenque in Mexico come to mind), but I think we´ve set a new personal record for complexity.
FromVilcabamba, Ecuador to Chachapoyas, Peru we managed to take 1 bus, two combivans, three colectivo taxis, two colectivo pick-ups, three tuk-tuks, 1 taxi,and 1 long walk across a bridge at the border.
We managed to breakfast on fried pig knuckles with yucca, and have a dinner that we thought was pork ribs but turned out to be chicken, covered countless miles on the wrong side of pot-holed, speed-bumped dirt roads, and saw spectacular scenery from soaring mountains to desert valleys to jungly hills to beautiful sunsets peaking through storm clouds over the Andes. Was it worth it? Definitely. Would we do it again? Not in a million years.
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I'm glad you guys enjoyed the journey out there! It sounds like your route was even more complex than mine! I only recall 1 bus, 3 colectivo taxis, 1 colectivo pickup, 1 combi, 1 tuk-tuk, and 1 little girl who puked on the bus ride.
Ugh - I would have cried and complained the entire way. You two are troopers!
For about the 100th time, have I told you how much I enjoy reading about these adventures? Just a few lines from you and I can spend my whole day dreaming about your trek (and I don't have to experience the cold, mud, or general body aches and pain you must get to deal with- what a deal ;-)
Love you both,
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