Friday 29/6 and Saturday 30/6 - Chachapoyas to Vilcabamba (Equador)
How to reach Vilcabamba from Chachapoyas? Very, very easy! Here is how I got there:
1 - Back from the Sarcofagos tour, a first collectivo Chachapoyas - Bagua Grande: 2 hours
squeezed with 4 adults and a child on the same car seat, 22 Soles (~7€).
2 - Another collectivo, from Bagua Grande to Jaén: 1 hour, negotiated for half price because squeezed in the back of the car between lugage and fright, 6 Soles (~2€).
3 - Search for an hotel in Jaén, because it is nearly 11PM. Cheap hotel, 20 Soles [~7€).
4 - Mototaxi from the hotel to the departure of the collectivos and combis, 2 Soles.
5 - Jaén - San Ignacio, 2 hours by combi, most of it on (muddy) dirt road, on a bad seat.
6 - San Ignacio - Namballe, 2.5hours with a crowded collectivo on an extremely bad road. 14 Soles.
7 - Namballe - La Balsa (border with Ecuador): 15 minutes with another collectivo, 2 Soles.
8 - Wait (for some hours) until the end of Immigration Officer's siesta.
9 - La Balsa - Zumba: 1.5 hours by Ranchera (truck) on an even worse road. 1.75US$
10 - Cheap hotel in Zumba, because it is getting late and dark, 7:30PM, 7US$
11 - Zumba - Vilcabamba: 7 hours by bus, from which 6 on dirt road, 6.50US$
Easy travel, isn't it?
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How to reach Vilcabamba from Chachapoyas? Very, very easy! Here is how I got there:
1 - Back from the Sarcofagos tour, a first collectivo Chachapoyas - Bagua Grande: 2 hours
squeezed with 4 adults and a child on the same car seat, 22 Soles (~7€).
2 - Another collectivo, from Bagua Grande to Jaén: 1 hour, negotiated for half price because squeezed in the back of the car between lugage and fright, 6 Soles (~2€).
3 - Search for an hotel in Jaén, because it is nearly 11PM. Cheap hotel, 20 Soles [~7€).
4 - Mototaxi from the hotel to the departure of the collectivos and combis, 2 Soles.
5 - Jaén - San Ignacio, 2 hours by combi, most of it on (muddy) dirt road, on a bad seat.
6 - San Ignacio - Namballe, 2.5hours with a crowded collectivo on an extremely bad road. 14 Soles.
7 - Namballe - La Balsa (border with Ecuador): 15 minutes with another collectivo, 2 Soles.
8 - Wait (for some hours) until the end of Immigration Officer's siesta.
9 - La Balsa - Zumba: 1.5 hours by Ranchera (truck) on an even worse road. 1.75US$
10 - Cheap hotel in Zumba, because it is getting late and dark, 7:30PM, 7US$
11 - Zumba - Vilcabamba: 7 hours by bus, from which 6 on dirt road, 6.50US$
Easy travel, isn't it?
Major Town along the road: San Ignacio de Lourdes (Peru).
Discovered that Belgium sponsored the bridge linking Peru with Ecuador.
As a matter of fact, the bridge is the only paved part of the road for hundreds of kilometers!
Belgian boy, on a Belgian bridge, in nomansland, in the middle of nowhere.
Looking backwards to Peru.
Looking forward to Ecuador.
First construction in Ecuador.
Entering Ecuador.
A closer look to the bamboo barrier.
The imigration officer still doing his siesta at 3:00PM, when I woke him up.
the customs office was open all the time but there was nobody inside.
1.5 hours of ranchero (truck transport) from the border to Zumba
(after having waited 3.5 hours)
The dirt road passing over the mountains,
nice lanscapes, but not at all comfortable.
Here and there people living in wooden houses.
My two stars hotel in Zumba, the first town in Ecuador.
Do you want a hot shower? Just toggle the electrical switch!
Obviously I declined that 'thrilling' experience.
Looking backwards from the bus terminal to Zumba.
The bus driver made a stop for each and every Virgin statue,
the boy quickly dropping a little coin in the offertory box.
Mechanical problems with the bus to Vilcabamba, happened in a typical village.
It took one hour for these engines re-open the road (landslide).
Finally, after a 48h travel, arrived at Vilcabamba.
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