Arriving in Lima on the overnight bus from Cuzco, we went straight to the Cruz del sur bus terminal, as I have had enough of travelling on cheap, skanky buses to save ten quid, and booked the bus VIP style to leave the following day. Lima is a huge city and there was nothing there I particularly wanted to see with exception to the National Museum. Unfortunately Nicola had got much sicker as she has been struggling with a cold and cough for a couple of weeks now and can't stop coughing. We needed to find a doctor to get her back to good health. As we checked into the hostel they recommended somewhere nearby we could go tomorrow as it was probably too late now. We checked into our room, a six bed dorm, not the 4 bed we had booked. When I saw it I was so glad we were just spending the night! What a shit pit! Stuff everywhere!! The people staying here were working nearby on contracts so were here long term and just made themselves at home. The beds were so high I was thinking of hiring climbing gear to get up there as there was no ladder, and when we eventually did we found to our disgust they had not been cleaned and were dirty, Nicola even found a map stuffed in the sheets, which just proved they were not changed. That evening we just had an early dinner at the chinese round the corner, I bought my leftovers back and was going to eat them the next day, but someone else got there first!! I could not believe it!! Who does that!! Hope they choked on it!! Went to have a shower, no hot water!! So much for 24 hour hot water as advertised then!! So pissed off now and complained to the management, only good thing was the tv room and the wifi. The following day we spent most of the day in the surgery before catching the bus at 3pm. We did however treat ourselves to a nice lunch where I had the biggest plate of scallops in the shell you have ever seen in your life!!!! The food here is amazing and one of the things I would have been keen to stay longer to enjoy! As we checked out of the hostel the manager was very pleasant and very sorry for everything that we had endured and did not charge us….probably worried about the review we would write on hostel bookers, which I was going to, but to be fair he ensured me he was dealing with matters, and it was in their best interest to, so I left it at that. We said our goodbyes and were looking forward to getting some beach time in Mancora!!!
Our VIP bus!!
The bus to mancora was amazing! I happily settled into our luxury leather seats for the overnight journey and got ready for the movies to begin…at least they put up english subtitles. They played a few good movies to include The Tourist which I had not seen so I was content. Then we had chicken for dinner and more movies and spent some time chatting with the girl across from us called Jazz. She was going to Loki Hostel too so we agreed to travel together. When we got there, we had to see if the hostel had room for us as we were only on the waiting list. We chilled by the pool until the rooms were ready and luckily they could fit us in so the three of us shared a 4 bed room with a guy called Matty from Perth, dejavu!!! He seemed to spend most of his time there out of it on something or another so we did not see much of him and when we did he was generally unconscious, so it was like we had the room to ourselves which was nice.
It was a nice room with a balcony and view of the beach and pool area. Staying at Loki del mar was like we had just been transported to the med. A real surfers place with not really much to do but surf, kite surf, and be a beach bum, which was exactly what we needed. The night life was not as good as we had anticipated and with Nicola being sick we did not go out much. I had a few drinks with Jazz on Friday night and was hungover Saturday and just so exhausted from all the tours, trekking and travelling we had been doing lately, I was happy just to chill out and save the partying for my birthday in 10 days!!! Apart from a brief ride on the most stubborn ponies, chill out really was all we did, until we left on monday to get to Equador, next stop Banos!!!
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