Friday 6/6 - CHIMBOTE
Rucksack packing, hotel check-out, hairdresser experience, computershop (for a computer mouse), joke with a retired Arpa activist, lunch in the same restaurant as yesterday (they start to know me there), and it was time to get the bus from Trujillo to Chimbote. One leaves every 15 minutes.
For this bus company, people might hop on and off at any place, so there were hundreds of stops, sometimes just 20m apart from each other. Not exactly "stops", rather decelerations and acceleration, bacause the bus rarely came to a real stop. Similar to the jungle bus, except that that the jungle bus also made such semi stops to let the groom drop a money coin at each Maria chappel. That wasn't the case today. No coins for Maria.
The taxi driver here at the bus terminal first asked me too much money compared to what other passengers told me, but now I know how to get the right price. Read carefully:
All will go right when you discuss loudly with the taxi driver. He will never accept your proposal when it is far below his initial overpriced offer. He will simply gave up and quit. Other drivers around were certainly listening to the discussion. Now they know your offer, and they also know that you will not give more. Just wait...
Soon one will come to you and say "OK". It's all about ego, about honor, and about money-money-money.
That method worked well, once more, the price dropped from 8 to 5 Soles (~1.5€).
Routard writes about Chimbote:
"Chimbote est une grande ville bien peu agréable... Il flotte par endroits sur Chimbote une lourde odeur de farine de poisson qui tisse un voile épais et nauséabonde dans l'atmosphère... En fait, il n'y a véritablement de raison de s'arrêter ici que si vous voulez prendre un bus pour Caraz via le Cañon del Pato..."
Again I fully agree with them. My neighbor in the bus already smelled like this in Trujillo, he lives here for sure. And here it smels really terrible, and there is absolutely nothing to see (apart from thousand rusting fishing boats and an ugly seafront.
I'll leave this place as early as possible! My cañon bus, leaving at 8:30AM is booked. The ride takes 9 hours for Huaraz, my window seat is reserved on the right side of the bus (the left hand side).
Let's have a nice fish dinner now at 'Venice', the best seafood restaurant in town (slices of raw fish and and other seafood marinated in lemon juice, served cold with corn + salad + sweet potato).
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Rucksack packing, hotel check-out, hairdresser experience, computershop (for a computer mouse), joke with a retired Arpa activist, lunch in the same restaurant as yesterday (they start to know me there), and it was time to get the bus from Trujillo to Chimbote. One leaves every 15 minutes.
Trujillo's main shopping street.
For this bus company, people might hop on and off at any place, so there were hundreds of stops, sometimes just 20m apart from each other. Not exactly "stops", rather decelerations and acceleration, bacause the bus rarely came to a real stop. Similar to the jungle bus, except that that the jungle bus also made such semi stops to let the groom drop a money coin at each Maria chappel. That wasn't the case today. No coins for Maria.
The taxi driver here at the bus terminal first asked me too much money compared to what other passengers told me, but now I know how to get the right price. Read carefully:
All will go right when you discuss loudly with the taxi driver. He will never accept your proposal when it is far below his initial overpriced offer. He will simply gave up and quit. Other drivers around were certainly listening to the discussion. Now they know your offer, and they also know that you will not give more. Just wait...
Soon one will come to you and say "OK". It's all about ego, about honor, and about money-money-money.
That method worked well, once more, the price dropped from 8 to 5 Soles (~1.5€).
Routard writes about Chimbote:
"Chimbote est une grande ville bien peu agréable... Il flotte par endroits sur Chimbote une lourde odeur de farine de poisson qui tisse un voile épais et nauséabonde dans l'atmosphère... En fait, il n'y a véritablement de raison de s'arrêter ici que si vous voulez prendre un bus pour Caraz via le Cañon del Pato..."
Again I fully agree with them. My neighbor in the bus already smelled like this in Trujillo, he lives here for sure. And here it smels really terrible, and there is absolutely nothing to see (apart from thousand rusting fishing boats and an ugly seafront.
S(t)inking fishing boats in front of stinking Chimbote.
I'll leave this place as early as possible! My cañon bus, leaving at 8:30AM is booked. The ride takes 9 hours for Huaraz, my window seat is reserved on the right side of the bus (the left hand side).
Bus office for Huaraz in Chimbote's terminal.
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