we are heading into peru today it should be another easy border crossing but we never
know it could be a hit or miss we got all of our paperwork ready on a bag that graham is of course
chilling on we're crossing in tumbes which is back at sea level on the coast so it's hot it's
very very hot again the heat for me does make it more stressful we're just sweating all day
and it's hard rummaging through the paperwork when you're so hot and yeah it's just a little bit
just another thing on top of also crossing a border that just isn't as fun but it's just
another thing we have to do to get where we're trying to go so i am so excited about peru i've
always wanted to go for the biodiversity the culture the food and also my sister and niece
are coming to visit us so that's gonna make this trip even more special before they get
here we have a lot of van work to do so that everything with our road trip together runs
smoothly make sure to subscribe so that you don't miss that video all right let's head to the border
oh it's a scorcher but we got the tip canceled with ecuador and we're looking for the place to
check our vaccine cards and then we're going to stamp out at ecuador stamp in the pro
woohoo it's so hot though wow so now they're letting us advance over to the main migration
building it's just really a regular border crossing how we walk we leave the car on that
side walk all the way over here and then we can walk back and get the car um everyone's different
i guess so up here we gotta do all the health stuff show the covid get our temperature checked
now we got our vaccine checked and this border has had some lines i wish we came
first thing and this will be our exit stamp for ecuador entry stamp for peru
so that migration line is one of the longest we've dealt with since nicaragua i figured
out there's a couple things i can do while we're waiting so that should cut down the overall time
i just got the insurance while emily's waiting in that line and they say i can bring the van in now
we walked like pretty far so i'm just gonna go grab the van as well
you know hopefully that speeds up this uh bit of a nightmare the only real problem is that we didn't
put on bug spray and uh actually i put something like early this morning i don't think emily did
she's been getting eaten alive so bring in the van at least we'll have the bug spray too
hopefully they're chill about the animals they just want to see this little health ticket here
wow it is hot no lie but back here oh it feels so good back here in the shade
we got this thing blasting okay i can turn it up one more so make sure they
got water heck fill that up a little more back to the borderline we got the stamps
all right we got the van paperwork oh and the guy already checked it so hopefully we can
just go into the country now no it took forever it's one o'clock now oh my gosh
not the fastest but it was mostly just waiting in that migration i think we
because the border just opened i think a lot of people are entering into crew right now ten and
a half i mean two and a half hours one hour of it was with double masks yeah let's see if we're done
yay we made it but honestly that was kind of hard
oh my gosh two and a half hours in the hot sun being bitten by mosquitoes oh i have so
many mosquito bites honestly at least it was in the shade i guess it was in the shade but
it was just no fans or you know and then once you get inside there there's ac but that's like
after an hour and a half of waiting so many people are trying to get into peru because it
was closed for so long so yeah the border took an hour i think more than usual which honestly
there's been worse borders it wasn't even like it wasn't that bad it was just a long line every kind
of bureaucratic thing took maybe 10 minutes tops so yeah it was just more people than usual i guess
i don't know why i mean today is a wednesday it's super weird but anyways we are in a new country
completely new for emily i've been here before yeah my cousin married a peruvian woman and
took her back to the states but before they got married i met up with them here in peru
center 12 years ago some of the amazing things about peru i remember are there's like a thousand
kinds of potatoes or avocados yeah the ceviche is like nice big sashimi pieces of fish marinated in
some good sauce and i heard you can get a really nice plate of ceviche for like three dollars
nice my mouth is already watering oh and danny was able to get out some soles which is the currency
here new currency it's 375 to one we are so excited to be in peru and i'm gonna text my
sister because she's probably like i'm gonna come in 20 days and they're not there yet we made it in
so excited we didn't even know if peru would be open when it was time for us to come so
yeah i mean that's yeah that's the thing when we got into ecuador peru wasn't open so i'm really
happy that we were able to get in here honestly right now is kind of a tough era for overland
travelers a lot of the borders have been closed at different statuses and we've been very lucky
because when we were in mexico we had to wait for guatemala to open and then we had to wait
for nicaragua costa rica and they've all just been opening right on time for us we came to colombia
and ecuador and peru were closed ecuador opened peru opened and we should be clear sailing from
now on unless if there's some crazy uh omega variant or something but we did have to wear two
masks inside of there and i guess peru is gonna be strict about two masks at least within uh public
transit which we want to deal with and government building so we'll see what happens wow well i
just got it to go because we want to cover some ground but let's see this first ceviche in peru
that looks nice it smells good comes with these extras looks like some uh almost like a potato
and probably yuka and in here just tons of fish that's gonna be bomb
damn for just our first little stop and brew the ceviche is killing it look how much fish
there is in there so this was 25 soulless i guess about 650 for this quite large portion of ceviche
i heard you could get it for like three bucks but maybe this was a little bit of a fancier one
this spot had the highest reviews on google maps so you know that doesn't mean much in an area
where they don't use google maps but that 4.4 star and it's pretty bomb it was full of locals
you know enjoying it not bad for the first stop in peru oh check out this view what are you thinking
emily first impressions of peru lots of tuk tuks moto taxis and more more motorcycles in general
than ecuador there are literally no motorcycles in ecuador which was refreshing for a month
the motorcycles in other countries sometimes just makes it harder to drive when they're constantly
just in a blind spot or they cut you off really fast or something like that it's just it makes you
more scared because it's not a car you know you can kill someone so much faster on a motorcycle
so it really scares me when there's a ton of motorcycles around definitely super dry
like it reminds me of baja because that that was basically desert to the beach and for so long
we've been jungle to the beach so this is gonna be so different to be sitting next to a cactus
instead of some crazy fruit tree something else i've noticed about peru is not only does it have
ceviche like mexico but they're much different but something else that came from mexico was the tope
and that means speed bump in spanish so not too excited to see that this country is gonna
be leaning heavily on the usage of speed bumps on kind of big roads you know like these aren't
just in the u.s like in a parking lot there's dopey's on the highway oh man it's kind of
rough on the van suspension and brakes but as long as you see him coming it's not too bad
but it really does slow you down going over all these snow bays could just be in this part of
the country we'll see oh my gosh you guys look at this crazy road here way up above and this is the
first spot we picked out here in peru look it the homies here waiting what a spot heck yeah
um
yesterday we made it into peru and we were able to celebrate by hanging out with some
friends and now today we're gonna head to our first beach spot over here our friends are gonna
go ahead forward and hopefully we'll be able to see them down the road
but we're gonna take our time a little bit more and check out the peruvian coast together
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