So we immediately started doing research. It turns the whole country was to being shutdown today 7:00 to 17:00. This means borders are closed; all businesses are closed including churches, but not hospitals; there are no buses or domestic flights. Only census workers are allowed on the streets. Consumption of alcohol is suspended starting Friday evening. We are to remain in the hotel for the duration. The hotel restaurant is allowed to serve guests. All these seemed really drastic for us. John and I stocked up on food and water and lined up trip search work and blogging to keep ourselves busy. Actually our hotel is not a bad to be interned: internet, restaurant, garden, pool....
We had a relaxing yet productive day, exchanged travel info as well as money with other interned guests, kept ahead of trip research, and logged extra blog entries. All these are very good as we are heading into fairly remote areas for the Ecuador-Peru border crossing, i.e. no internet.
5 o'clock came. There had not been a single census worker to visit our hotel. How anticlimactical! Nevertheless, we all streamed out of the hotel just after 5, traveling onto the next destination or just out for a stroll and dinner. Freedom regained!
John sunning by the hotel pool.
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Looks like Vilcabamba is on a route 39 cul de sac. How do you get to San Ignacio, Peru?
From Vilcabamba we head SOUTH to Zumba, spend the night. Then SOUTH to the border at La Balsa and on to San Ignatio to Jaen, stay the night; and finally Chachapoya.
I see Zumba but don't see La Balsa and don't see any road from Zumba to Peru. You intrepid travelers can navigate these wilds where Google Maps is no help.
Whiter than white!
Yep, with 2/3 of a farmer's tan: neck and hands. ;-)
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